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The Dark Room Fukuoka The Dark Room is one of the best bars to go to if you are in Fukuoka, Japan. It’s located on Oyafuko Dori (Oyafuko Street) in Tenjin. It is known as an “Urban Rock Bar” and plays all kinds of great music! The owner of The Dark Room is Moses Yamane, More >
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Hamasaki Ayumi or Ayumi Hamasaki or just Ayu….Whatever you want to call her, you have to say she is the biggest singer songwriter to come out of Fukuoka, Japan ever!! She is the embodiment of Japanese Pop Culture, Music, and Fashion. Ayu was born in Fukuoka October 2, 1978. She was raised in Fukuoka by More >
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This picture was taken outside of URAS in Fukuoka, Japan. Uras is a car shop that specializes in Drifting and is owned and operated by Nomura Ken, also known as NOMUKEN. NOMUKEN is a professional drifter that drives in the Japanese D1 Series and has drifted all over the world from Europe to the United More >
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Nishi Nippon Newspaper 西日本新聞 The Nishi Nippon Newspaper is Kyushu’s most popular newspaper and the best source for news from Fukuoka and Western Japan. Unfortunately, there isn’t an English Edition and if you want to get the news from this newspaper you will have to break out your Kanji Dictionary and start translating! They do More >
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What is a Bounenkai? First let us break down the meaning of the world by defining the Kanji (Borrowed Chinese Characters). 忘= Forget 年= Year 会= Meet So as you can see from the Kanji definitions the word Bounenkai is a “Forget The Year Party”. The cool thing about Bounenkai’s in Japan is that you More >
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In the second part of “Learning Japanese: The Fun and Unconventional Way” we will talk about how to improve your listening. Thinking back to the first time I really put in the effort to learn the Japanese Language, I remember buying some Anime VHS tapes (this was before the internet and DVDs). My friends and More >
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A good friends of mine over at 808Talk the site that inspired this one made a little Flickr mashup. The idea of this mashup (a program or site using programming API’s to create something new. Like Google maps and Flickr combined to form a unique site) was to give a zooomed in view of a More >
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Hakata Webcam There are several live web cameras in Fukuoka. This web camera link below is one in Hakata and gives the user the ability to control the camera’s movement. You can control back and forth, and up and down. Plus it has 8 preset buttons to the left that you can just click. It’s More >
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Our friends over at URAS turned a usual “Jiisan” (old mans car) car into a VIP Drift Car. It took them a couple months to finish it and the biggest problem they had was the wiring. Unlike a lot of American turners that just scrap the wiring and run a stand alone computer system to More >
