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December Hacks from the Past roundup

Hacks from the Past is a series of posts that I will do monthly that will go over past hacks so that new readers don’t have to bother digging through the archives. Here are December’s Hacks from the...

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Two hacks from Indonesia: soothe those burns

A blog I subscribe to, David Goldsworthy’s Indonesia Blog, has a cool post about curing two kinds of burns: skin burns and the burns you get from eating spicy food. To cure skin burns, put toothpaste...

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Rice Pancakes For Breakfast

Reader Bob sends in this delicious hack: Thomas, I enjoy your nihonhacks site and I wish it had been available to us when we lived in Tokyo from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 1999. Another use...

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Free Book Alert: Japanese Gaming Centers!

Shane over at The Nihon Sun is giving away a free book. In her words: If you have ever been to a Japanese Game Center or want to learn more about the gaming scene in Japan then you need to read Arcade...

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NihonHacks Breaks 1000 subscribers!

I checked the front page today and saw this: Wow! 1000 subscribers! I never imagined I would reach so many people, especially not this quickly. Thank you everybody for your continued support! I love...

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Nothing says Japanese Christmas like Tsurushigaki (aka Looking Out My Window...

If you were to look out my apartment window, this is what you’d see: Yes, that’s right.  The apartment across the street!   Not very exciting.  But if you look a little to the left, you’ll see this:...

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Mos Burger has jalepenos

Jalepeno peppers are my favorite sandwich condiment.  Whenever I’d go to Subway back in Texas, I’d always have them pile on the jalepenos.  Sadly, Subway here in Japan doesn’t offer jalepenos (at...

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Banks and other places close for New Years, plus other stuff

 Just a reminder that banks close for New Years holidays.  Don’t get caught without cash.  Grab a few extra ichimans today while you still can.  Also, various stores will close and others will change...

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Newspaper hacks

Kind reader Viljami Nykänen sent me this: Hi Thomas, I’m not sure if you can actually put these up on your site as they are from a Japan Times article, but here goes anyway. Article link:...

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Homemade Masks

In Japan, when people get even a little bit sick they wear a mask.  If you ride the train everyday, you’re likely to see at least one person wearing a mask everyday. If there’s a bug going around,...

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