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• Post #4431625

  This sometimes comes up, but I am from Hawai'i in the sense that I was born and raised there, but not Hawaiian (aka Kānaka Maoli). I am a fourth-gen Japanese-American (aka Nikkei-American) which means my great-grandparents* immigrated to Hawai'i** and that's my heritage. I know some Hawaiian words and customs from growing up there, but it is not /my/ culture. Out of respect to Kānaka Maoli, please don't refer to all people from Hawai'i as Hawaiians or assume they are experts...

• Post #4405350

  Gonna start #streaming some pomodoros + Japanese study session, if you need some company while studying then come hang out! https://twitch.tv/renkotsuban #StudyWithMe #Japanese #Anki

• Post #4273190

  > Many good reviewers already respect translators in their reviews without thinking about it, but many others do not (usually not deliberately). Maybe we can shift the conversation to [...] bring the translators out of the shadows in our reviews and give them the credit that they deserve, since translations do not appear out of nowhere. A translator makes a translation happen, and their work deserves to be seen. Essay: SFT Overload https://www.sfintranslation.com/?p=17348 #Bookstodon #Tran...

• Post #4246958

  Started on Lillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant tonight and as predicted, this is EXTREMELY my jam. Extremely messy (I say this with affection) and funny and like the best kind of Asian daytime drama hahaha, I am having a total blast with this one so far https://www.lillianliauthor.com/number-one-chinese-restaurant #Bookstodon

• Post #4241444

  > [B]aseless claims spread on social media alleging that it was "a terrorist attack carried out by operatives" or that "a nuclear weapon was used." [...] Other posts shared images purportedly showing clouds after the quake and claimed that it was an "artificial earthquake." Some conspiracy theories alleged that foreigners or specific politicians were involved. False claims and AI images fuel misinformation after Kumamoto earthquake https://mainichi.jp/english/a...

• Post #4221392

  > Mar would later learn that many sushi workers from Myanmar often earned below minimum wage, working 12-hour days for flat daily or monthly pay. Overwhelmingly, these are asylum-seekers waiting for work authorization, international students, or undocumented immigrants. Most have no health insurance or employment benefits. The hidden cost of America’s supermarket sushi boom https://prismreports.org/2026/07/29/grocery-store-sushi-workers-myanmar/

• Post #4221220

  > A 71-year-old second-generation Korean resident in Japan living in Osaka [...] watched the speeches and march that day from a distance, and said, "They use the soft words 'immigration policy,' but isn't ethnic discrimination at the root? I feel a sense of crisis that many citizens are taking part in the demonstration without realizing it." Shadows of hate, extremism hang over anti-immigration rally in Osaka https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260729/p2a/00m/0na/01...

• Post #4221212

  > Staying inside cars can ensure privacy but experts warn of the risk of "economy class syndrome," in which blood clots form due to long hours in the same position. God, there is never a GOOD time for a major earthquake to hit, but why do they always seem to hit right when the weather is the absolute worst for evacuations Power outages, heat prompt evacuees to stay in cars after Japan quake https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260729/p2g/00m/0na/055000c

• Post #4165973

  Over the weekend (I think, I don't remember when tbh) I played walk! It got a bit of buzz so you may have already seen it, but I am here to say that it is A Good Un, it's less than ¥300 and is a delightful way to spend an hour or so. I wish the weather here wasn't so awful, it makes me want to take some walks... https://store.steampowered.com/app/4563880/walk/

• Post #4157987

  Holy shit, huge earthquake (shindo 7) in Kumamoto https://news.web.nhk/kishou-saigai/earthquake/

• Post #4122663

  > Under the revised guidelines, an applicant will additionally be required to have an annual income in excess of the average for a Japanese household, as well as projected pension benefits equivalent to those the applicant would receive after 30 years of enrollment in an employees' pension program at that income level. Fuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuu Japan gov't to impose tougher requirements for permanent residency https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260726/p2g/00m/0na/023000c #ja...

• Post #4079575

  On our way to Numazu to bag a Himonora :neofox_bongo:

• Post #3951522

  Good morning from Mishima :neofox_bongo: We got kind of a late start because I overslept (whoops) but otherwise it's a great day for a drive to Numazu! #food

• Post #3854911

  The "feels like" temperature being 39C at 6pm with an incoming thunderstorm to give me a weather migraine Kanto summer is here and I truly hate it lol

• Post #3829123

  New #blog post! A couple of tips and tricks I learned using #Sublime Text to code my websites! https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2026-07-15-Tips-and-tricks-with-Sublime-Text.html #Blogging #IndieWeb

• Post #3631458

  I'm not trying to dunk on these two people in particular, this is a common sentiment I see a LOT Iwata was not a uniquely gracious CEO and that's why he took a pay cut rather than lay people off, he did it because that's how Japanese labor laws work. CEOs here aren't massively overcompensated like in the US The lesson here is not to wax nostalgic over This One Good Guy but to join a union and kick down doors and change society for the better. There are more of you than there ar...

• Post #3550245

  Also something I learned by getting the Japanese version of Taiwan Travelogue: it loses the whole metatextual translator's notes and "I found this old Japanese journal and translated it into Mandarin" framing. Which, if you think about it, makes sense... the idea that this was originally a "lost" Japanese book that finally got a translation, is unnecessary for the Japanese edition. Like, what, in-universe this is a Japanese book that got translated to Mandarin and back to...

• Post #3403712

  God I cannot wait for Daikon to get out of the shower so I can hit him with these lines and watch him blink a million times in complete confusion

• Post #3403705

  ❌ Goose value 0? ⭕ Goose value 71

• Post #3403704

  Market capitalization = Egg value + Goose value

• Post #2934810

  RE: https://gamedev.lgbt/@zine/116586827019184978 The TOWNSQUEER zine and bundle is LIVE!! We really hope you will check out all these cool games and the #zine going in-depth on our members at gamedev.lgbt. Show up for #queer creators making amazing queer art just in time for #Pride!! https://itch.io/b/3666/townsqueer-a-gamedevlgbt-zine-and-games-bundle #itch #itchio #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #Gaming #VisualNovel #InteractiveFiction #zines #LGBTQ