Directory: Useful Japan Posts

For those of you who are here in search of information about either ICU or Japan as a whole, below are a few lists of posts that you may find helpful.

You can find a complete list of the posts on this blog in the right sidebar, but I assume most of my visitors would rather not search through my personal posts in order to find information. Please let me know if there is anything you would like to know about that I haven't yet posted about, or if you have any questions at all. I want to be as helpful as possible!!

Generally Useful Things Coping with Culture Shock 40 Things You Didn't Know Money Matters What Japanese Money Looks Like Getting a Cell Phone A Brief Lesson on Keigo	Touring The ICU Area Entrance of the School Around Campus Global House Ginkgo House Dialogue House Honkan Library D-Kan and Bookstore A Day in My Life Nogawa Park (Near ICU) ICU's Surrounding Area
Places Around Japan Imperial Palace Hiroshima and Miyajima Yokohama Shinjuku and the Bus Ride There Odaiba Asakusa Ghibli Museum A Bit About Kichijoji, Sukiyaki, and Hachiko	Food Japanese Snacks Groceries and More Snacks Yet Another Snack Home Made Onigiri Store Bought Onigiri Home Made Okonomiyaki (made wrong)
Other Japan Things Tohoku Earthquake/Tsunami Aftermath Typhoon Aftermath Tea Ceremony A Little Bit About Kabuki Nihon Buyo	Possible planned posts ICU Exchange Personnel Info Individual Dorm Info Bests and Worsts

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The Mission Revived

This blog has been dormant for too long. I've tried to write a few posts since returning back to America from Japan, but I couldn't figure out why I never kept up with it. I love to travel and explore, and I love to write, so what was the problem? When I created this blog I did so partially to keep my friends and family in the loop while I spent a year of my life exploring a foreign country, but my biggest driving factor was providing information. I researched every corner of the web before I set off on my year abroad in Japan. I wanted to soak up every bit of information I could about life in Japan, the culture overseas, what my school would be like, and everything in between. Looking at pictures, watching videos, and reading everything there was to read consumed me and heightened my excitement immensely. So, I had decided that I wanted to make my trip informative for future study abroad students who would likely be doing the same scouring I had don...

40 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Japan

Before I jump straight into this list, I want to clarify that some of these points may be generally incorrect, or could be exclusive to Tokyo. I could also have some of my reasonings wrong. This list is simply something I compiled based off of my own experiences throughout the year that I lived and traveled throughout Japan. This list is also not, in any way, a complete one. I'm sure if you search the internet you can find many other very true facts about Japan that I have forgotten to list here. In urban areas there will, at any given time or place, be at least one コンビニ ("conbini" / convenience store) within walking distance. Japanese people don’t usually have middle names . Japanese people are very interested in each others' blood type - it's like astrology in America, except people take it very seriously. Expect to be asked what your blood type is at least once. Japanese deodorant supposedly doesn't work very well. I brought my own deodo...

Never Forget

On November 25th I got on a bus headed toward Iwate, a coastal prefecture in Northern Japan located half way between the Northernmost part before the Hokkaido island, and Fukushima, where, on March 11th a powerplant encountered many difficulties and became dangerous to the surrounding area. The city we went to was called Rikuzentakata. Rikuzentakata is a unique place, because it is located in a nook of land with the sea accessible on two sides. Before I go any further into this story, I want to explain why I am bothering at all. Unless you were very young on March 11th, 2011 or have no access to the media, you are fully aware of what happened in Norhern Japan, and realize the destruction it caused. So, why bring it up again? It is true that, by telling you about my experience in Iwate, I will not change what happened. But that is not my purpose. What I ask of you is that you simply never forget what you know. As of now, eight months a...

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