This is a 1 month blogging contest open to anybody willing to follow the guidelines. The contest offers $100 cash up for grabs plus a free PR3 back link. Bloggers of all heritage can compete in the contest for the $100 prize. Many choices apply on...

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Ahhh, Groping ! When i first came to Japan in 2002 i noticed signs on the subways depicting 3 things … all illustrated by cartoon; no fighting, no setting the seats on fire and no putting your hand up a school girls dress. Needless to say each pictu

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Tip for getting cheap steak in Japan. You don't have to pay full price for perishable food. Wait until the throwaway date and pay only half the price. 700 yen steaks become 350 yen steaks. 4000 yen watermelons become 2000 yen watermelons. Nice

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A look at the third chapter of the Japanese version of Fight Club. Topics include:

Japanese men are mumblers. What the hell are they saying?
Astronomy terms are interesting in Japanese.
How to say "cafe latte enema" in Japanese.

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Want to know the secret to cooking strong meats like lamb? Soak it in milk. A NihonHacks reader writes in with an easy recipe that you can prepare in just a few minutes. I tried it out tonight and the results were great!

Lamb is sold at most J

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Find out more about the new FHASecure mortgage program designed to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. HUD has started more counseling programs for mortgage borrowers facing financial difficulty. All at the same time that HUD loan defaults are fallin

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These flags are so cool that if a foreign-tongue person had to encounter your blog, they would stay longer and click around much more than clicking the close button!

You all have to add this to your blogs!

If your blog is in another language o

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The Nintendo DS is a great tool for learning the Japanese language. It has a variety of games that can help you learn kanji (Chinese characters). This is a short review of one such game that my wife bought for me for my birthday last week. It has over 47,000 questions that cover all 12 levels of the Kanji Profiency Exam (Kanken).

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Japanese toy giant Tomy co LTD has come up with an innovative way to encourage their aging population to save.

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How is your blogging experience? Does it feel like the cafeteria back in high school where the "cool" kids monopolized certain areas and the other kids were excluded? Or is the blogosphere an open, welcoming place? One blogger suggested the former, causing JHSEsq to ponder the question and share her own conclusions. Join the discussion!

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A wonderfully cute "mini-massagers" from Sanrio Japan. The Hello Kitty massager features random knobbly bits for extra shoulder massaging goodness. And in a variety of colors! Yay...

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One of the oldest massage technique still in popular practice today is the Chinese Tui Na method. Some say that the art of Tui Na or Acupressure gave forth to the modern Japanese Shiatsu massage which most spa and massage goers are familiar with today.

Tui Na is a hands-on-body treatment using acupressure whose purpose is to bring the body

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New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said today that the shooting death of an unarmed Brooklyn man by five police officers last night fell within departmental guidelines because the man, an 18-year-old with a history of mental illness, pointed a black object at the officers and claimed it was a gun.

New York City Police Commissi

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E! Online is reporting that there is an arrest warrant out for Hayden Panettiere's arrest in Japan. Her heroic dolphin-saving mission last month wasn't without its consequences. "I learned that they have an arrest warrant out for me in Japan," the Heroes star told E! News exclusively Wednesday. "We just found out."

Panettiere said,

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Most cheese-loving foreigners who get to Japan soon realize that their beloved dairy-product is hard to find on this little archipelago in the Pacific. I've written before on order-cheese.com, a Japanese service that delivers cheese to your door. Some nihonhacks readers sent in some other options for finding cheese that I'd like to share

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