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Sweet, savory, fruity, spicy and more can be found in a bento box100

Make A Bento Box Lunch!

A Bento Box is a traditional Japanese lunch style, offering a collection of artistic and tasty foods. Find bento box recipes and learn to make your own onigiri!

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Emperor Meiji's Funeral Procession89

Japanese Funeral Rites, a descriptive guide to

Death is a delicate subject in any culture or religion. What happens next is an often sought answer by many people. The Japanese have a strong tradition for taking care of the recently deceased and much of it involves Shinto and Buddhist roots. While not every area follows the same pattern I have attempted to outline the basics of a Japanese style funeral and what happens afterwards. Only some of this I have experienced myself when a family member's grand-father died (I have attended a Japanese

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How to get a job teaching in Japan

Teaching English and living in Japan is a great experience, the adventure of my life. I’ve been doing it for nearly 10 years. I would encourage anyone to come here to start a new career or just for a couple...

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Strings of paper cranes for prayers of peace sent to Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. (public domain)  92

How to Fold Paper.

Folding and creasing paper has a long and interesting, even a surprising, history and many applications...

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Celebrating Christmas in Distant Jungles During World War II

While a great number of fascinating Hubs have been written about this week's HubMob topic of Christmas, the three about Christmas in the Philippines - Merry Christmas from the Philippines by maudine_05 How...

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A beach near Puerto Princessa, Palawan, Philippines90

The mistake of taking a DSLR camera with you on vacation

Earlier in 2008, I took a 3 month journey to Asia. Primarily visiting Kyushu in Japan, parts of the Philippines and exploring Thailand for the first time in my life. I was very excited and I was thinking...

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An Expat’s Guide to Japanese banks - choosing the right bank, opening an account and sending money overseas

Choosing a Japanese bank can be daunting for foreigners who have just arrived in Japan. As one would expect, there are many retail banks to choose from. I’ve picked out three options with particular...

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US Census Bureau data and Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare information, 200291

Major Causes Of Divorce

In order for a marriage relationship to succeed, I believe...

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Japan Facts ; wild animals

Wild boars, monkeys, bats, kabutomushi, red crown cranes, all abound. It's hard to believe all these animals live in Japan. Living in such a busy and well populated city as Osaka makes it slightly difficult to spot many forms of wildlife. Aside from the cats and dogs, inhumanly large black crows but if one looks they are there.

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A torii is a gate found at the entrance to a Japanese shrine, and this one is at the entrance to the Itsukushima shrine.  Photo by Lightmatter under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.  93

Top 10: Countries With The Largest Population

The following is a list of the top 10 countries in the world by population.  The United Nations has been the source for all data mentioned, unless otherwise stated.   At just over 127 million Japan is the...

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