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  • Dirt Off Your Android – Selected By DJ Scrying

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  • Rescue Me – Selected By Dj Andy S

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  • DJ HalcyonBY Trevor David

    RAN: Where are you originally from? HALCYON: I’m from Christchurch in New Zealand. RAN: How long have you been in Nagoya? HALCYON: I came to Japan about 6 and a half years ago, but I was living in Chita city for the first 5. I moved into Nagoya in August 2010. RAN: What type ...

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  • SHIYOU GA NAI (SHOGANAI) IT AIN’T WHAT IT APPEARS TO BEBY Mark Lavers

    “I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” Robert McCloskey My first encounter with the word “shoganai” came in a conversation involving a Welshman, 3 Japanese ladies and me. When t ...

  • To Drive, Or Not To DriveBY Mark H. Campbell

    Only after a few months of arriving in Japan, I started to make enquiries about how to get my Japanese driving licence. I didn’t know Hirokoji Dori from Nishiki Dori, but I thought it would be a good thing to have. To my delight, I discovered that for Brits and a few other natio ...