Sunday, November 30, 2008
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
November 30 commemorates the day in 1987 that the City of Tsukuba was born from the Village of Sakura and the Towns of Yatabe, Toyosato, and Oho. (The Town of Tsukuba merged with the rest on January 31 of the following year). Since Alien Times was also [...]
I had to translate an annual pay statement for someone at work today, so I thought I would share the results with TsukuBlog readers just in case you can use it in the future. The annual pay statement (or 源泉徴収票, gensen choushuu hyou) is given to employees around January or February. It is [...]
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year break. I was hoping to go and see the girls dressed up in Kimono today for ‘Coming of Age Day’, but have just been told that for Tsukuba it was yesterday! Oh well, better luck next year.
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Masuda grocery store in the Namiki Shopping Center has marked down many of their goods today. I went there around 6pm after work, and a lot of shelves were already empty. I think the store is open until 9pm today if you want to hunt for real bargains. Cashier told me yesterday that [...]
Hope International is holding a charity auction until March 9. Get your bids in now for a luxury vacation!
Here is what the Japan Times has to say about this organization.
HOPE International was founded by three Canadians, including a housewife and a pilot, and now operates in 20 countries worldwide. It’s a very professional no-nonsense [...]
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