The University of Tsukuba’s women’s basketball team has qualified to play in the 57th Kanto Women’s Varsity Basketball League Championships. The championship games are being held in Tsukuba for the first time ever. The University of Tsukuba team is extremely strong this year. They have won three tournaments in a row, including the [...]
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The Ministry of Justice has decided that all foreigners (including permanent residents) entering Japan must be fingerprinted and photographed. The Ministry’s excuse for this is a long list of terrorist acts, none of which happened in Japan.
See the peppy video: Landing Examination Procedures for Japan are Changing!
Personally, I don’t like the idea [...]
There is a new web application called Mango that can help you learn the basics of Japanese (and a few other languages). First sign up for an account, and then once you login with your new account, you can choose which language to study. The lessons are given in slides and they include [...]
When you find a nice book on Amazon.co.jp, you may instantly click on “Add to Shopping Cart”. But wait! The book may be available at a library nearby.
The following user java script adds the search results of the Tsukuba Public Library database on Amazon.co.jp pages (see the screen shot below). You can directly go to [...]
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How much does it cost to handle all of the garbage we produce in Tsukuba?
In the 2006 fiscal year, the City of Tsukuba spent 3,463,000,000 yen (around US$29 million) on waste treatment.
52,500,000 yen (around US$450,000) was spent on collecting household waste and the waste from the pipelines in the central part of the [...]
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