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5 Japanese Workplace Phrases Everyone Should Know

If you’re thinking about working in Japan or are in the process of moving there, you’ll want to commit these phrases to memory as soon as possible. It’ll make life a lot more bearable–or at least a little less confusing–to be able to communicate properly with your employers and fellow employees.

peopel crossing the street in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

moving boxes

Observations of an Ex-Ex-Pat: Moving Home After Living Overseas 2

Moving sucks. It sucks when you’re moving just down the street, and it sucks when you’re moving from one country to another. Somehow, though, the normal stresses of moving take on a whole new level of awful when you’re moving back to your home country after any amount of time living […]


How Much We Spent in Southern Japan for Three Weeks 5

As soon as our contracts as English teachers ended, Jeff and I jetted off on a three-week tour of southern Japan. We spent a week in paradise, a day in hell, and got to see the chaos of Japan’s biggest festival–Tokushima’s Awa Odori. To the chagrin of our mothers, we […]

dancers at Tokushima's Awa Odori 2014

How to Travel for One Week in Okinawa, Japan 4

Okinawa Prefecture in Japan has long been one of our dream destinations. We decided ages ago that once our jobs as English teachers ended, we’d go; in fact, I booked our plane tickets back in February. You’d think that with almost half a year of preparation, and how much I love […]

lizard on the banyan tree at Dai Sekirin