Scott Wilson
After getting bored with high school French, Scott came to a crossroads in life whether to study Japanese or Native American Mohawk instead. Mohawk's lack of kanji was its ultimate downfall, and Scott hasn't looked back since. After years of non-stop sweating while working as a translator in sweltering Okinawa, he moved back to his native, delightfully frigid Massachusetts to work as a private Japanese tutor. His hobbies include re-reading One Piece for the hundredth time, dreaming about Shakey's Pizza, and getting feedback on stories he's written from both his wife and cat.
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Mario can handle goombas and koopas, but what about cops and gangsters in the “real” world?
Oh, hello there. What are you doing outside of the computer?
She didn’t get a Pokémon shirt or a Machamp belt. Instead she got something far, far stranger.
Watching anime as homework sounds like an otaku dream come true.
A leg snare trap, a swinging ball trap, and more to capture the Santa while he’s in Japan.
Who knew that rubber chickens and exhaust pipes were the ingredients needed to summon a howling demon?
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Japanese-style afternoon tea in this Japanese manor house outside downtown Tokyo is something special
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Survey asks foreign tourists what bothered them in Japan, more than half gave same answer
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
We deeply regret going into this tunnel on our walk in the mountains of Japan
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Haku is…Chihiro’s dead brother? Studio Ghibli fans blown away by Spirited Away theory
Old-school titillation: A trip to one of Tokyo’s few surviving “telephone clubs”
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