Hey everyone, I just moved to Japan about 2.5 weeks ago. I live in the Zushi area. I am wondering if anyone here knows of any shops that sell Sanrio/San-X/Kawaii. I have been to Yoshida in Yokosuka, near the military base. I am wondering if there are any other shops like that around ( Read more... )

I thought I'd give this a shot since I've only come across one person on livejournal who is in Japan because of the military. Are there any other military wives here who are in their mid-20s ( Read more... )

Related to the last post, is it possible to be placed in a specific rural town ( Read more... )

As a Navy journalist, my major role is to produce stories that give an account of Navy life and the operations that we conduct at sea. This serves an important role for those that cannot be there on the ship but want to be connected to what we are doing. My other role is to help facilitate stories for outside media, so that they can tell the Navy ( Read more... )

Since arriving in Japan, I've had the pleasure of joining the Japanese people in a number of special events and traditional activities, like the BBQ (yakiniku) that I described in one update. These occasions mean a lot, not only for the opportunity to learn about a new kind of cultural practice but for the interactions involved with them, which are ( Read more... )

I'm married to a Marine, so we're lucky enough to be stationed on the lovely little island of Okinawa (currently in a typhoon even!). I'm really curious about the Japanese culture. Something specifically that I have been wondering, and this might be a personal question for Japanese, but hopefully it can be answered. Everything seems to be super ( Read more... )

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I saw this featured and thought I'd join since we live in Japan. We're stationed here and have been for 8 years. I used to miss a lot about the states but now that we've been here so long I find that I miss very little about the states and I miss tons about Japan whenever we visit the states. If given the option we'd rather not leave Japan.

Hi, just found this community through the lj of a friend of mine who's going to be living on base with her husband in Japan ( Read more... )

hey guys! i'm new to this community..just saw it on the spotlight thing (like someone else said earlier) and decided to join =D my name is emmalyn velasco, and i lived in yokosuka from 1991-1994 and then i was in NAF Atsugi from 1995-1997..so i was there for about 6 1/2 years and started school there and now i'm stuck in the states >_< my dad was ( Read more... )