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Making Friends With Mixi

By now, practically everybody knows about Myspace and other social networking sites like Friendster and Facebook. But, have you ever heard of Mixi? Mixi is a Japanese social networking site, and it’s a good way to make friends and meet people in Japan.
Mixi is the biggest social networking site in Japan, with almost [...]

The Art Of Nanpa

Here is a typical story of cross cultural misunderstanding in Japan…
A man from a foreign country walks up to a Japanese woman. He asks her a simple question, for directions to the train station. She doesn’t really speak English, or she doesn’t have much practice anyway, so she points, gestures, grunts, shouts in [...]