Herro Flom Japan

I get asked this a lot from both foreigners and Japanese. No, I'm still American. But theoretically, I could become a Japanese citizen: By law, aliens with 5 years of continuous residence are eligible for naturalization and citizenship rights, including the right to vote; however, in practice, most eligible aliens choose not to apply for [...]

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You snooze, you lose.

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Remember the Japanese techno/technical track I used for background music a few episodes back? (The one I hobbled together after the accidental vodka overdose.) No wonder I couldn't find anything about the artist. I had his name wrong. it's Momoyo The LIZARD, not Motokado. (A guy I used to work with was named Motokado. And [...]

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SAQ A friend of mine just pointed me to this page. They're the answers to things you probably never knew you wanted to know about Japan. And in case you were wondering, I didn't know the answers either. I probably asked many of those questions at one time, but because I've been living here so [...]

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Here's a story from Iraq you've never heard. A friend of mine who's there just told it to me. I was talking to some guys from a British Army detachment, and they said early on in the war, while the Brits were securing the Iran/Iraq border near Basra, an American man with a large backpack [...]

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