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Photo : Ghibli MuseumThe Ghibli Museum in Tokyo will be closed until March 17 due to coronavirus concerns. The call to close the museum was made in accordance with Tokyo’s decision to cancel eve…
Video Game Guide and staff at teamLab Planets are among our top jobs this week! By GaijinPot Blog Feb 24, 2020 1 min readIf you’re looking to work in Japan, check back here each week as we look …
Natto (pictured above) is easily one of the most difficult Japanese foods for foreigners to develop a liking of…or even an able-to-stand-in-close-proximity-to-ing o…
But judging by Osaka Prefecture’s grossly inept handling of changes to its Native English Teacher (NET) Program and its treatment of its foreign workers, grave doubts are warranted. Osaka Prefec…
Language barriers, transport mysteries, different cultural expectations and unfounded assumptions are key players in the “mistakes tourists make” game. If you’re planning to visit Tokyo during s…
Sudden temporary closure has taken everyone by surprise. Now the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo’s Mitaka is taking precautions against the spread of the flu-like virus by announcing that it will be…
However, in the wake of last week’s announcement of Japan’s first fatality from the virus, one ramen shop owner has established an even more strict ban: Japanese only. This new rule was put in p…
Showa Denko (SDK), the Japanese chemicals and electronics company, among other things, makes platters for disk drive makers such as Toshiba. A 2019 annual results report reveals it is making MAM…
The poster explaining the reason for the closure of the family-run business is breaking hearts around the internet. ▼ Twitter user @Ki_46ozzie took this photo of the poster outside the Maru…
JAXA, Japan’s national space agency, has just approved a robotic mission to visit the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and retrieve a small sample from the former to bring back to Earth. The miss…
