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Continue reading →: The Quiet World of Listening Cafés in JapanJapan has many small cultural spaces that most people never notice. Some of them sit quietly in back streets. Some hide behind simple signs that you would overlook if you were not paying attention. Listening cafés belong to this world. The idea sounds almost too simple at first. You pay…
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Continue reading →: Japanese Men Get Paid to Make Women Feel SeenJapan has many cultural layers that are not immediately visible from the outside. Some of them are quiet, some are unusual and some are simply misunderstood. Host clubs belong to that category. When people first hear about them, they often imagine something romantic or scandalous, but the reality is different…
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Continue reading →: Loneliness Services in JapanOver the past few days I took a deeper look into the statistics of my blog. What I found surprised me. The articles that get read the most are the curiosity topics, the culture plus only in Japan stories that make you raise an eyebrow and lean a little closer…
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Continue reading →: Local Bear Meat in JapanWith bear encounters increasing in Japan lately, I started paying more attention to what shows up on local menus and in roadside stations. A few months ago I tried gibier cuisine in Hida Takayama, and now I see bear meat being sold at the michi no eki in Gujo Yamato,…
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Continue reading →: A Small Pause Before the Next ChapterDecember is coming and I feel ready to slow down a little. Not to stop. Just to rest and breathe before the next season begins. After writing every day and filming weekly vlogs for months, I can sense that a short pause might give me the clarity and new energy…
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Continue reading →: A Year of FPV: What I Learned Beyond FlyingA year ago I was just dipping my toes into the drone and FPV world. I had no idea how deep this hobby would take me or how much it would shape the way I create. Back then my flights were short and clumsy and everything felt new and overwhelming.…
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Continue reading →: Is Kokuhaku Culture Quietly Killing Japan’s Birthrate?I recently stumbled into a topic that I honestly never thought much about until now. It happened while watching a video by Shohei Kondo, a Japanese Youtuber I follow more and more these days. I like him because he is Japanese but speaks from a different angle. He lived abroad…
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Continue reading →: Coming Home by Leaving HomeAt the end of this month, I’ll be going to the Netherlands for a month. Having lived there for over thirty years, I don’t feel any sense of homesickness. The Netherlands was once the center of my world — the place where I studied, worked, and built my financial independence.…
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Continue reading →: I Flipped My Online Life Inside OutI used to scroll through other people’s lives without realizing I’d stopped living my own. I was that guy who opened a MySpace account before anyone I knew even had one. I didn’t really know why I opened it — I just did. Then came Facebook, and once again, I…
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Continue reading →: 🏮 Speaker Cars in JapanI often hear speaker cars passing by my home while I’m working in my office. Sometimes they announce local elections. Other times, they’re food trucks selling all sorts of things — not just Japanese sweets or snacks, but even ramen. My wife said there are many kinds of these cars…
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