Secrets of Sapporo $1 is now online for sale, ¥300 plus ¥100 shipping. I enjoy selling things for cheaper than a 7-11 sandwich. I've decided not to post this work online at the moment, and restrict it to physical sales. I will only do domestic Japanese sales for now.
A publisher in the States...
I’m actually talking with a friend in Tokyo now who knows a shop which carries exactly this sort of thing and we’ll see about it. I’ll have it in my online shop next week too! Probably for ¥400 with shipping in Japan and a postcard thrown in
Hey everyone! It's been a while again. I've had a great improvement in the quality of my life the past few years. I'll have to change my avatar, because that reflects how I felt while working as an ALT, and that life is long gone.
Anyway, this weekend, I have been invited to participate in a...
I signed up for Twitter some time around 2010, didn't get it, and never went back. About twice a year, I'd follow a link to a video posted there, then leave. It's literally the least interesting of all social media, and I don't get why it became so ubiquitous.
Musk's ownership has only made it...
My new comic will be posted from today on Solrad, an American comic arts website. It's an non-autobiographical piece about an American tourist in rural Hokkaido, drawn bilingually in English and Japanese. Maybe it's not a site you check every day, but over the next four months, all 34 pages will...
Japanese embassy in Canada. My parents have given up on their trip because it will be too much stress on them as people in their 70s. They had been planning to come two years ago for a final trip.
My parents tried to apply for a visa to visit in June, based on blood relation to me, which is permitted. The embassy requires:
-my passport
-my visa
-their passports
-my family registry in Japan
-my city registration in Japan
-a letter explaining why I want them to visit
-and the kicker, a...
There are few creators better-known in Japan than the legendary manga creator Shigeru Mizuki. While he is famous for his work featuring Japanese mythical creatures, or yokai, in English he's become equally influential with his adult-oriented historical books like Showa and Onwards Towards Our...
I was holding out till the fall for an iPad, since that’s when new models tend to come out, and now it looks like that’s going to cost me over ¥20,000. Maybe I’ll postpone another year or two to squeeze value out of the current one.
It’s frustrating, but the new economy is going to teach...
I watched from start to finish and I enjoyed it. I'm at about level 2 JPLT, so I could understand all your Japanese. Usually listening to Japanese, I understand 80%, and it was nice to get 100%.
I often use grammar words in Japanese when I teach English, but I didn't know the word 取り立て助詞. I...
I completely agree, America is not as bad as Putin's Russia or Xi's China. It's better than Nazi Germany too.
That should go without saying, and that strip is not a criticism of America, just reminiscing about facts and feelings. I don't think there is a need for Wikipedia links to American...
A few weeks back, a private lesson student of mine was explaining to me that China had dressed soldiers as civilians, which is why these things happened. He's convinced that Japan was a noble country in the past, and that America essentially soiled Japan's decency by forcing contact. And he...
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