DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Asian American comedians on American TV (watched in Asia by an American)
I really like the internet. Thanks to the Internet, I’m able to keep up on news in the US, and it helps me feel still connected to a culture that I left behind two and a half years ago. (I also make frequent calls home, but that is more a personal than cultural connection.) I […]
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Japanese Chocolate
Morinaga Salty Chocolate KitKat Triple Berry As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been seeing a lot of Salty Chocolate lately. I picked up the Morinaga Salty Chocolate candy the other day. I opened the box, expecting a standard candy bar, but instead I got about eight individually wrapped really small chocolate wafers. They […]
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Fire Cafe Zero (Zero Sugar)
Fire Cafe Zero Another new (to me) japanese canned coffee. It was not very sweet, but that is to be expected: it is a Zero Sugar coffee. Still, it wasn’t that bad, and I had no trouble drinking it. I’m not going to buy it again though. 🙂
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Super cool robot parking systems
Awesome robot parking L. and I are buying an apartment. I’m really excited about it. One of the things that is way more exciting than it should be to me is the parking system. Our tower has two parking garages that are totally robot garages. We have to apply for a parking space, and we […]
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Ryusendo Coffee Black
Ryusendo Black Coffee Georgia Caffé Espresso Yesterday I tried the Ryusendo Black Coffee. It was awful. I should have known; it says right on it “no sugar”, and I like my canned coffees a bit on the sweet side. Still, I had tried another Ryusendo coffee, so I thought I should round out the set. […]
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Books reviews: The Audacity of Hope and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Note: the links to the left are referral based things that might, at some point in the future, make me money somehow. I don’t really care about that, but I couldn’t find any other way to get pictures of the covers to show up (since it looks like they block non-amazon referrers.) Also, in general […]
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Paying the Tax Man, and stuff around town
Busy day at the bank Making tatami Meiji salty praline chocolate When I get mail, I usually like to let it sit around and age for a bit, like a nice wine. In all honesty, I only get a few pieces of mail a week, and it is all blindingly obvious what it is just […]
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Reviving the Japanese Daily Coffee Posts
Georgia Essence Drop Fire Freshly made Boss Switch Shot Ryusendo Original Fire Special Wonda Gold Nescafe Nescafe Golgo 13 Nescafe Golgo 13 So a while back I quit doing updates here, mostly because I quit drinking coffee. Usually when I go overseas though I start up again. I went to Morocco recently for a conference […]
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Conference Honeymoon
After L. and I got married, we took a trip to Morocco for our honeymonn. Actually, I had made a committment a long time before to attend the 2008 LREC Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, so we went together as a kind of honeymoon. It was the best honeymoon conference ever. Read more for notes from […]
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Second Apartment Viewing
Today I went with L. for the second apartment viewing. On the first viewing we filled out a form with 10 issues we found in the apartment. The majority of them were small bumps in the wall, or a few were areas where there were imperfections in how the finishing on the doors, or how […]
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The NHK Man pays a visit
Friday evening I came home from work to a hot apartment: it was raining all day so I had left the windows closed. When I do that my apartment warms up pretty quickly, mostly due to the refrigerator and computer I suppose. I put some rice on for dinner and opened up the windows but […]
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Saturday morning alarm
I was looking forward to getting a bit of extra sleep on Saturday night, but at about 8:45am this morning, there was a pretty big earthquake north of Tokyo (centered on Iwate, a low level 6 on the Japanese scale) which caused shaking down near Tokyo. It was very minor, not strong enough to move […]
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