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Beyond Tokyo
Let’s go to a movie studio and join the Hundred Monster parade!
Every year for the ten weeks around Halloween (mid-September through the end of November), the Japanese movie studio that’s most famous for making killer period dramas puts on a yokai (Japanese folk monster) party. Let’s join in!…read more
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Seasonal Secret
Mundane Halloween costumes just keep on giving
Japan’s Jimi Halloween contest celebrating who can come up with the most boring Halloween costume ever just keeps racking up the wins. Here are more great costume ideas for people who hate wearing costumes…read more
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The Thing I Learned Today
Your new Japanese apartment: Necessities not included
Renting an apartment in Japan can come as something of a shock. You expect it to be small. You expect it to be spartan. But did you expect that the day you move into that luxurious two-bedroom unit with a balcony and built-in shoe cupboard that it would be so…dark? Because…read more
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The last thing Birdie needs is to turn her life upside down solving a murder that was committed before she was born...
Birdie is a true daughter of the pleasure quarter. The number one apprentice to Yoshiwara’s number one courtesan, she’d rather do anything than derail her future life of wearing opulent robes and entertaining lords of the land. But when her search for the mother she never knew takes a dangerous turn, she faces an impossible choice: betray her own flesh and blood, or live the rest of her life being hunted by a powerful man who won’t stop until they’re both dead…
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Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly Japanagram newsletter, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had
