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Your guide to Japanese kindergarten and elementary schools: Attire for Entrance Ceremony

Mar 6, 2017 | Everyday Living Advice

Japanese schools start in early April, it is obviously the busiest month for both parents and children. We will help you to understand the cultures of Japanese school and help you to adjust with it. There are numerous unfamiliar items to prepare and piles of documents...

Vege & Fork Market: Your way to enjoy fresh vegetables and meet the locals

Mar 6, 2017 | Events and Activities

You are what you eat. Based on this belief, Vege & Fork Market started their first food bazaar at 2010. They believe that healthy eating habits are important because it will affect both physical and health mental condition. This food bazaar tried to bring new...

Word of the day: Yonaki de nemurenai

Mar 3, 2017 | Everyday Living Advice

If you want to chat with other moms and explain the reason behind your dark circle-pale look-and tired skin… you can start the conversation with the following sentences; yonaki de nemurenai … It means that you can’t sleep because your baby cries at...

Can’t stand the sweltering hot weather in Indonesia: A story from a returnee

Mar 1, 2017 | Society

My story of living abroad: I couldn’t stand the sweltering hot weather there. It is just like Japanese summer- I was always tired. I feel like I could not adapt well- I always miss Japanese sushi, the taste of sushi abroad was not that good.. In Indonesia, the...

Challenging myself to work abroad: A story by Japanese living in Indonesia

Mar 1, 2017 | Society

My experience working abroad- well, there is no subway in Indonesia and the train is not convenient either. We Japanese generally use a car with the driver, so sometimes I feel uneasy of being chauffeured to various places by the local driver. As for the...