Since the massive pet food recall for Menu Foods products, we’ve stopped mixing the wet food with the dog’s dry food. I guess it is alright to go back to the wet stuff, but being a little paranoid and knowing the dry is probably better for them, we’ve stuck with the Dry Only diet.*
The [...]

Someone had mentioned they heard about one of our Super Suiyoubi deals from this blog. Far more people come here from links on TJS or TJP, but occasionally it goes the other way around. So, this entry will expand upon the bit about today’s deal found at TJS. Kansai Time Out.
Until tomorrow [...]

I stumbled upon this a year or so ago, but seeing it today made me want to blog about it.
In the prestigious Wikipedia “Toilets in Japan” page, TheJapanesePage.com is cited in the footnotes here.
While this is a great honor to be sure, I believe this article is the only place TJP is cited as a [...]

Your regularly scheduled Japanese related posts will resume after this short break…
I want to make the most out of the advertising I allow on my sites. While I don’t like to clutter the pages with advert after advert, I also don’t want to lose money on hosting fees. And with an ever busy [...]

The Prelude
Our dogs, especially Tevye (to the left), have a 唯一の楽しみ yuitsu no tanoshimi - The singular event they look forward to everyday; that is their daily walk - 散歩 sanpo.
The Story
Well, one of Makoto’s NHK children’s shows (ピタゴラスイッチ) has a bit with two penguins singing songs about Japanese wordplay. The ペンギン (pengin penguin) [...]

A screwdriver should be such a simple instrument and yet there are two irritating types: Flathead and Phillips. (Actually there are more…) If I need a Phillips, I have a flathead screwdriver. If I need a flathead…
Yesterday, while replacing a bathroom doorknob and installing blinds in a window, I contemplated how complicated [...]

It seems I may have gotten our hero’s name wrong. 春のワルツ’s main character in Japanese is:
ユン・ジェハ
No dispute here. ユン is his family/last name and ジェハ is his first name. You’d think this would be an uncomplicated matter - but you’d be wrong. Deadly wrong.
Well, I don’t know too much about Korean [...]

To catch up on this Korean Drama see here and here and finally here (the last link goes through basic plot lines and the major characters - necessary for understanding Clay’s nicknames).
Ok, today’s episode saw little of いじわるババ１ or 2. However いじわるババ２ makes a stunning appearance toward the end. It is amazing how [...]

One reason I haven’t been consistent in posting here is most of my ‘free’ time is spent working on moving theJapanesePage.com to the new server and new setup.
The need for the move has been accelerated by the current server having Error 500 problems. Basically every few refreshes will give the viewer a white screen [...]

I played with the SD card version of this soft and it worked well. However, the CD-ROM is much cheaper and installs in the Casio’s onboard memory which frees up the SD expansion slot. This post is about how to install it.
There doesn’t appear to be a Mac version. If you have [...]