Each edition of d design travel is devoted to a prefecture. The print edition is know for its beautiful covers, and to me anyway, its awesomely formal side by side English translations of the Japanese text. i.e. this one’s from the bilingual app description of the store Mitate: “The culmination of Setsuko Yamada’s work in directing Japanese and Tokyo […]
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I don’t usually do helpful content. It’s not my thing: helpful. Now, if you’re looking for lightly edited anecdotes about one woman’s opinion on Japanese dog hair arrangement magazines at the supermarket–and who isn’t?– I’m your blog. If you want to read about one woman’s general ennui and specific troubled incidents with bicycle ownership and parking […]
I walked to a laundry place across from the bus station this morning. I had all my laundry in a canvass bag, but when the laundry woman went to weigh it in the bag, I asked her to take it out of the bag, so my laundry would weigh less and I’d be charged less. […]
My Dentist is drawing out some dental work like it’s fine dining and he wants to savor our time together. He speaks a little English, and by a little I mean the word “amalgam.” I’m not really sure what the word means, but he took out my childhood cavities–didn’t even offer to let me keep […]
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