My So-Called Japanese Life

Boy howdy, is this shop named appropriately. There are some types of shops which are omnipresent in Japan and that you encounter with such f...

Sometimes I see something in Japan that I really can't understand or explain. For instance, when I worked in Shinjuku, there was a used ...

Click any image in this post to see a much larger and more detailed picture. When I was a kid, my grandmother used to take me along to aucti...

The spoils of a trip to Hanamasa . When my husband and I first arrived in Japan, there was pretty much no such thing as bulk food shopping f...

I've mentioned in previous posts on Costco that those of us living in Japan who don't have cars (which is a far greater than the num...

A display for rental of Season 6 episodes of "24". If you wanted to buy Season 6 of "24" in Japan, it'd cost $167 (¥...

In September, I posted that I had been invited into the Amazon Vine program but found that it was impossible to be a participant due to som...

As a relatively frequently shopper at Amazon Japan, I get plenty of ads from them via e-mail. This doesn't trouble me because I don'...