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“Why do I have to study English? I’m never going to use it… there’s no point,” whines at least one Japanese student in any given English class on a daily basis.
Now, thanks to one company’s clever new initiative, instead of the usual spiel about the benefits of English being an “international language,” teachers can tell their students that knuckling down and mastering the language could bag them 1 million yen.
Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan1
The Ten Most Beautiful Tunnels in the World and Where You Can Find Them2
There’s a Sailor Moon in my Coffee! Photos and Tips From a Japanese Manga Latte Artist3
Ranking of Taxi Fares Around the World – Japanese Passengers Getting Hosed, Even More So Next Year4
Japanese Electronics Company Releases Camera Glasses for Under US$1005
Oozing up From Below, Mysterious Marshmallow-like Substance Covers Nanjing Street1
Beautiful Cosplay Girl is Actually Nerdy Guy2Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan3
Saudi Arabian Reporter Floored by Things Japanese Take for Granted4The Ten Most Beautiful Tunnels in the World and Where You Can Find Them5
We Made Coca-Cola Transparent and Colorless. It Tastes Like…1
Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum2
Crime of Passion: Three Men Forcibly Deported from Saudi Arabia for Being “Too Handsome”3Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan4
Real-Life Barbie Gives Her Friends and Family a Makeover, Turns Them into Dolls5We Made Coca-Cola Transparent and Colorless. It Tastes Like…1
Peenzilla Worship! Japan’s Kanamara Festival Coming Up this April!2Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum3
Chinese Student’s Bicycle Seat Breaks and… Gyah!4Crime of Passion: Three Men Forcibly Deported from Saudi Arabia for Being “Too Handsome”5
Oh Dear! Has Peter Rabbit Discovered a New, Darker Side to Himself?
Plastic Surgery Transforms Japanese Girl Into Living Porcelain Doll
The Secret Slang of Japanese Cabbies
Beautiful Cosplay Girl is Actually Nerdy Guy
With Title “Happiest Place on Earth” Already Taken, Amusement Park on Cebu Island Makes Its Claim to Be the Sleepiest
Meet the Buildings Used by Millionaires, Statesmen … and Naked Bathers and a Ghibli Movie
The Grave of Christ and Vampire Ice Cream – Japanese Town Solves Many of the World’s Mysteries
The Top 25 Things In Japan Most Likely To Blow Foreigner’s Minds
The Best of the Best of Manga: Shonen Jump’s 20 Best Sellers of All-Time
Advice Corner: ‘My Wife Won’t Stop Saying “Boobs”‘
Philip Kendall
Writer / Translator Hailing from Liverpool in the UK, Philip Kendall made Japan his second home in the summer of 2006 after dolefully abandoning his childhood dream of becoming a ghost buster.
Steven Simonitch
Writer/Translator Though a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Steven currently resides in Nagano, Japan, where he is known by the old lady at the supermarket as “the white guy who always buys 2 packs of natto.
Master Blaster
Writer / Translator Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Steven Le Blanc and Masami M.
Kay
Writer / Translator Kay is a native Japanese who has lived in Honolulu, Hawaii and Los Angeles, California. She currently resides in Tokyo and enjoys writing about a wide range of topics, including all things cute and glamorous.
Michelle Lynn Dinh
Writer / Translator Originally from California, Michelle is currently working as an assistant English teacher on the tiny island of Chiburi in Shimane prefecture.
Jessica Ocheltree
Writer / Translator Jessica Ocheltree is a freelance writer and editor living in the exciting, interesting and sometimes perplexing city of Tokyo.
