Dana Anderson, a fantastic ALT in Fukui, put this PDF together and kindly shared it with us. Though the office locations are different the process is the same for Hyogoites. Click for the ‘Mad Max, Fukui Edition’ guide to getting your Japanese Driver’s License.
By Elise Burgess Halloween is just around the corner, and although it’s not as popular of a holiday in Japan as in the West, there’s no shortage of terrifying ghosts, ghouls and general nightmare fuel. Low on Halloween costume ideas? Don’t want to end up being the 20th Harley Quinn on the block?…
The Ottawan Hamster is older than most, He lives in the city but was born on the coast; His stalk is as tall as an elephant’s eye The elephant in question being the size of a fly; He’s green as a daisy and round like a brick, If you look at his teeth,…
The HAJET book club met on Sunday September 4th to discuss our first book of the year, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris. This book is actually a group of essays,mostly from the point of view from the author and inspired by his own life. It was interesting that a few…
I’ve been travelling a lot recently, and I had an epiphany at 3.00 am yesterday (or 11.00 am, depending which time zone you want to use), while into the 23rd hour of a 28-hour trip. The world is actually that little animatic map you get on planes. You know, the strange Windows 95-era rendering of…
Despite being accident prone for most of my life, I have done an astounding job of avoiding hospital stays. While I may have had a brief brush with the emergency ward after breaking my collarbone at age five I have never actually had to do an overnight stay. Until now that is. Still making it…
Hello! Resident Yama Girl Caitlin here. Did anyone feel inspired to climb Mt. Seppiko after reading my column last month? This time I will introduce you to a slightly higher, but significantly easier climb. Mt Sengamine (åƒãƒ¶å³°) is a 1005m peak in the Kanzaki district. I set off at around 10am, along…
Reading Japanese literature in Japan is a wonderful experience. If you’re a massive nerd like me, you can take literary pilgrimages to the places you visit in the novels. I have traveled to some incredibly beautiful places because Mishima sent his melancoly protagonist there to describe the beauty of the landscape while pondering…
I’m from the UK. Scratch that, I’m from England- I think I need to unlearn to say ‘The UK’ or even ‘Britain’. You can probably already tell where I’m going with this. Recently, my country made an extremely massive decision; I’m not going to discuss the politics because this isn’t the place for that and…