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64The Secret to Corporate Teaching in Japan
Here I am drunk and stoned at 10.30pm, finding new white stuff in my dreads. It’s bedtime for me as I’ve got to wake up at 6.40am. I’m in the middle of my first proper corporate teaching gig. I’ve...
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68You Tube Greatest Hits Part 1
So here are some of my favourite you tube clips. They are not in any particular order, nor are they ranked according to hits. I guess the vid cam "Numa Numa" bloke has had more hits than Jimi Hendrix. So what...
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68Definitions of Culture and Japanese cities
Susono is a small city in Shizuoka prefecture in Japan. It is a city that typifies what the Japanese call, "inaka", meaning rural. It's a city so it isn't strictly "rural", but then again the Japanese mean...
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57Osamu Dazai: a Japanese Rebel with a Cause. A Review of Return to Tsugaru
Osamu Dazai was born in Kanagi, a small town on the Tsugaru Peninsula. Tsugaru is a lesser known region of Japan in the far North West of the main island of Japan (Honshu). Across the Tsugaru Straits...
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50The Nature of Violence
James Bulger being led away. CCTV footage that helped convict Robert Thomson and Jon Venables Violence is shocking and appalling and when the very young commit violence it sends jolts of despair through...
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65Another side of Yasunari Kawabata: A review of "The Lake"
Yasunari Kawabata was born in 1899. At an early age he found himself an orphan. His novels reflect a loneliness tinged with an elegaic quality that is uniquely Japanese. Although Japan's first Nobel laureate...
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82Why DJs should play vinyl and not use computers
This is mixing analogue style. Not using dull digital equipment Over the past couple of years more and more DJs have converted to using computers to mix with. It's boring and should be outlawed from all...
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62Don't know what to get your smart friend for their birthday?
There's always someone that you know who is really difficult to buy a present for because they have a sharp and critical tongue which often makes you laugh when they are ridiculing someone or something; but...
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