Blog Posts

  • What I Wish I Knew About Kinkakuji (The Golden Pavilion)

    by Jessica Hutchison For a few months, I lived about ten minutes away from Kyoto Station. And man, I missed a lot of experiences there.   But one place I made sure to go to was Kinkakuji. If you know even a little bit about Japan, you’ve probably heard of this place. It’s a Zen…

  • Writing a Japanese Resume

    So you want to go to Japan, or you are in Japan and you want to apply for a job. That’s awesome. Congrats on your goal. However, when you look at that nasty blank template that you downloaded from the internet you have absolutely no idea where to start.

  • Takayama: Japan’s best kept secret

    There’s no better place in Japan than Hida Takayama. Ask foreigners and they will likely never have heard of this small town, nestled in the Japanese Alps. Ask Japanese natives and they will tell you it is a favorite destination for the Japanese to go on vacation. What makes this small town so special? What…

  • Minute and Hour Exceptions

    Time in Japanese can be a easy thing to mess up. Which is why we made this easily printable 100% perfect reference. Make things just that much easier.   Watch out for the small ‘っ’ it can throw you off if you are not careful. Also remember that in minutes number 2, 5, 7, and…

  • Why Japanese People Wear Masks

    If you go to Japan, you’ll notice that they do a lot of things differently. Even though they seem out of place to us, they are actually pretty normal there, and Japanese people probably don’t even know we think it’s weird.   One thing that threw me off when I first got there was how…