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Dale Roll
Dale is a world traveler, but her heart will always be in Japan, and not just because she had to sell it to get enough money to FINALLY get that giant Lapras plushie from a UFO catcher. She spent her youth devouring East Asian pop music and dramas, and her student days with her nose in books about the Heian period and the history of Chinese medicine in Japan, so when she moved to Japan it was like a dream come true. She loved her life there and everything that Japan had to offer, but after grudgingly admitting that she loves her husband, whom she met there, even more, she moved with him to Spain. When she isn’t writing or struggling to speak Spanish that isn't mixed with Japanese, she likes to spend her free time eating tasty food, playing Pokémon, rewatching Sailor Moon, and annoying her husband with impromptu karaoke solos.
All Stories by Dale Roll
What do you get when you combine a beloved celebrity with a beloved Pokémon? Adoring fans of both!
Piranha Plant slippers? Mushroom-shaped silicone molding trays? Shut up and take our money!
It’s nice that it can make omelets by itself, but it’s certainly not a threat to human existence.
After she said she wants to read them after retirement, book stores and publishing companies quickly sold out of copies.
Our resident scam investigator turns criminal to see how much information he can steal from a stranger’s smart phone.
The exciting program may be the first graduate video game design course at a Japanese university.
Their location is also pretty inconvenient, so is their leek and meat soba worth calling in sick for?
One Japanese netizen guesses that it has to do with fundamental problems in the Japanese education system.
You could also request a translator or a photographer, but who wants that when you can have a ninja?!
They always say that you should try to walk in someone else’s shoes if you really want to understand them.
Salty things are delicious on ice cream…but no one ever said anything about stinky things.
This person may not think they’re good at anything else, but they sure are good at making bubbles.
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