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For those of you whose preparations are a little behind schedule....here's some help, in the form of the JAMSTEC official Christmas Card...

Here's another bizarre Japanese story that seems to have made more of a splash abroad than in the Japanese press. A walker went missing...

From the department of "you couldn't make it up" (or should that be, "James belatedly jumping on a bandwagon"), here...

I've got a bunch of bizarre Japanese stories to blog...curiously most of them have appeared in the UK press rather than Japan. Perhaps i...

Around this time of year, people are always asking me if I'm going home for Christmas. No, I reply(*) - and although I have to cook my o...

So, I put the manuscript here . It's unchanged from the previous version, just without the pesky GRL formatting. I didn't try to tak...

No doubt breaching all sorts of copyright restrictions, but nevertheless, someone has posted 2006 JLPT 2kyu test & answers here (with a...

Regular readers will know I live in Kamakura , which is a historic city just outside Yokohama. Probably most Japanese think it's a terri...

Eventually the reviews from GRL arrived for this paper (actually several days ago now, but I've been busy recently). There were 3 revie...

...so I can now forget everything I have memorised over the last 6 months :-) I won't reveal any details of the test as it still hasn...