In-depth guides, local insights, and practical tips from our team on the ground in Japan.
In this article: Introduction Japan is conspicuously clean and has almost nowhere to throw anything away, and visitors correctly identify this as...
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In this article: Introduction The coffee at a serious kissaten arrives after about six minutes, in a cup the master chose, on...
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In this article: Introduction The most common way a foreign visitor fails to get into a Japanese gym has nothing to do...
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In this article: Introduction Japanese medicine is excellent and the administrative arrangement for a foreign visitor is unusually blunt: you are outside...
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In this article: Introduction A Japanese colleague returning from a weekend in Kanazawa brings a box of thirty individually wrapped sweets to...
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In this article: Introduction A ¥120,000 apartment in Tokyo will cost you somewhere between ¥500,000 and ¥700,000 to move into, and roughly...
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In this article: Introduction At around seven in the evening a member of staff appears at the prepared food counter with a...
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In this article: Introduction There are no mandatory vaccinations to enter Japan. Nobody will ask for a certificate at immigration and there...
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In this article: Introduction Japan’s reputation as a cash country is about ten years out of date and still partly true, which...
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