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I just had to find out why coffee at chain coffee shops in Japan tastes so awful…

What the Kamakura Buddha said to me and why I’ll never sample wild Japanese mushrooms again.

Things aren’t going as smoothly as you’d like in Japan? Maybe wasting your money on one of these cheap trinkets will help…

And soon started to wonder why we ever thought living in a 200 year old wooden house with a straw roof would be “charming”…

Our food correspondent learns the hard way why the rest of the world cooks their fish before they eat it.

Gaijin or gaikokujin are Japanese words meaning “foreigner.” The words can refer to nationality or ethnicity. The word is often the subject of debate as to its appropriateness, particularly in its shortened form which is considered by some to be offensive. Just thought you’d like to be reminded…