The 'random questions about Japan' thread
May 24, 2022, 9:47 pm
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Talk about Japanese singer worse than Yutaka Mizutani, how about Kumiko Ooba?
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She’s bad but nowhere near as bad as Mizutani imho. His dancing? is pretty bad, too.
Maybe I’m too hard on him.
He has 10 albums and 20 singles for crying out loud.
Talk about Japanese singer worse than Yutaka Mizutani, how about Kumiko Ooba?
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She’s bad but nowhere near as bad as Mizutani imho. His dancing? is pretty bad, too.
Maybe I’m too hard on him.
He has 10 albums and 20 singles for crying out loud.
May 24, 2022, 9:51 pm
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May 25, 2022, 9:03 am
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I also like Sonotoki Umaretamono (その時生まれたもの).
May 25, 2022, 10:11 pm
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Someone start a Jpn music thread.
May 25, 2022, 10:22 pm
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For nada sou sou, I do hear it out and about more sung by Rimi Natsukawa, which is an awesome rendition. Honestly, I can't think of any of their songs I don't like. I shamelessly sing their music often when driving home from my weekly trip to CoCo Ichibanya in Irvine, CA.
Jul 24, 2022, 3:17 am
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The Tokyu Stay hotels have those all-in-one machines. Love 'em. Turn them on, go outside and do whatever you need to do, come back and your clothes are nearly dry 
OTOH the standard top 100Y coin dryers at many business hotels are so weak you might as well just air dry your clothes
OTOH the standard top 100Y coin dryers at many business hotels are so weak you might as well just air dry your clothes
Jul 24, 2022, 3:20 am
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Yep, convenience stores sell hard liquor, as do supermarkets, department stores, or even online or from the occasional vending machines in little bottles with. So it's really not just specialist liquor stores. You can buy hard liquor 24 hours a day by the bottle from convenience stores and from some supermarkets and Donkis.
There's a loose group of retired men in my neighbourhood that spend their weekends sitting on benches near a 7-11 drinking all day. They are quite chatty and loud, sometimes the local police sit and talk with them and they don't seem to mind the public drinking. There's also plenty of drinking in parks, so it doesn't seem to be illegal in many public places. On the other hand, walking round and sipping a beer, especially in an onsen, might well get you angry looks.
There's a loose group of retired men in my neighbourhood that spend their weekends sitting on benches near a 7-11 drinking all day. They are quite chatty and loud, sometimes the local police sit and talk with them and they don't seem to mind the public drinking. There's also plenty of drinking in parks, so it doesn't seem to be illegal in many public places. On the other hand, walking round and sipping a beer, especially in an onsen, might well get you angry looks.