I hadn’t been to the front page of 1Nichi1Kai.com for a while (the admin pages were not affected) and was surprised to find the site redirecting to various shady sites wanting to sell me things. I don’t know how long it has been doing this, but I am VERY sorry for not catching this [...]

Cleaning up around here, I created a stack of stuff that someone can use, but I don’t really want to make a product page for it at TheJapanShop.  If something interests you, I’m willing to negotiate   Also email me or call 1-386-965-8774 if you have any questions or would like a photo of [...]

The one game system Yumi will actually play is $50 cheaper now. The  Nintendo Wii is the family-friendly alternative to slashing aliens and zombies with chainsaws on your TV.  I’m not sure what the non-family-friendly alternative would be…

I have a new project in the works that has sucked all my time.  It isn’t related to Japanese or the iPhone but pulling me from all directions.
I will probably not post much around here for the next month or so.  Once I come back to regular blogging, I’ll have a more concrete idea of [...]

Harvey of Japan Newbie fame emailed me this morning that his iPhone app (which we helped with a little bit) was on sale at iTunes!  (more on this with the next post) He mentioned several of his Twitter followers had “Retweeted” the news.
Well, I had heard of “retweeting,” but had no clue how to do [...]

When we were in Japan a few months last year, I let Makoto (then two years old) play with my iPhone quite a bit. I had my SIM card out of the phone so short of dropping it in the toilet, I didn’t think he could mess it up too bad. He loved playing [...]

We are watching a movie on TV Japan.  It has very good subtitles–obviously done by a professional, but for some reason every time someone says, 「おおきに」 (thank you) it just says “Ta.”  It has kind of bugged us since they say 「おおきに」 quite a lot.
We can’t figure out what “Ta.” is supposed to be.  That [...]

Yesterday, Makoto found an interesting insect. It was a grasshopper that looks like a leaf. Doing a quick Google search, I think it may be called a ‘Katydid.’
Has anyone seen this before?

It is kind of hard to see with the sun hitting him as it did, but his back really looked like a [...]

I don’t watch a lot of live TV now that I have a DVR. I just set it to record various programs on the History Channel, and just to spice things up, the History Channel International too.
I rarely ‘channel surf.’
But last night I was channel surfing and happened to notice ‘24′ was about [...]

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