Author: Mikan

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Lessons I Learned from Searching for Houses in Japan

It was early September when a real estate agent drove my fiancé and I from downtown Tokyo to Yokohama in a tiny Mitsubishi vehicle. Despite the fact that I had moved approximately once every two years in the past decade, this was the first time I inspected houses before actually renting one. I moved twice […]

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Miyakoochi, I am moving out of Tokyo

I thought I would live in Tokyo forever, or at least for much longer than this. It was the end of August when I received a call from the head of my department. He told me that I would be transferred to the accounting department, which is at the Osaka headquarters. At first, I was […]

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The Purpose of Work (or Life)

As my 20s’ come to a close, I find myself still not being able to enjoy my life “normally”. Although it is true that since I am pushing too many agendas simultaneously, there isn’t too much time left for leisure anyway, I don’t think things would change even if I had the time. Apart from […]

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Good Bye Bureau!

The Bureau, the one that every foreign resident should already be familiar with, which is not the FBI, but the Immigration Bureau of Japan. In my case, it was the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau. I went there on Monday which took more than 4 hours before I was allowed to enter the building. This was […]

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Stories after Getting First Does of Vaccine

Before getting vaccinated, I didn’t think about the side effects too much. Maybe I would feel pain in my arm for a while, which was all I had assumed. As a result, I was suffering from not only a sore arm and fatigue but headaches and a high fever. All these symptoms appeared just after […]

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The Improvements of My Home Office

This is a sequel to the Japanese journal entry I wrote about how I reshape my workflow. Other than iPad I rarely mentioned anything related to hardware. This time, I will focus more on the gear. My basic philosophy is “less is more”. I gradually realized that I had too much stuff to be productive. […]

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Let’s Talk About JAPAN Studio

I want to share my thoughts and feelings about the recent shutdown of Sony’s JAPAN Studio. There won’t be a deep analysis here because at the end of day I am no more than a casual player. At this point, JAPAN Studio barely exists. Most of its members were dismissed around new year. SIE (Sony’s […]

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The Problems with My Career: Why I Am Not Motivated

After working in my first full-time job for a year, I have come to the conclusion that this career is still far from my expectation. My position was actually quite nice and exciting, but only on paper. The reality is more boring and I am constantly under-motivated. Here are the problems I will try to […]

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Goodbye, Walkman

Eventually I gave up buying a new Walkman or other separated portable music player (DAP). No matter how magical nostalgia might be, I have to admit that DAP is absolutely obsolete in the Reiwa era. Since I sold my Walkman on Mercari 2 years ago and started to use bluetooth earbuds, I was always seizing […]

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Roughly a Year After Moving

It’s been roughly a year (10 months to be exact) since I moved to my new apartment. After getting used to my new life, I thought I would write an article to describe how wonderful the choice I made. Unfortunately, the scenario didn’t go as smoothly as I planned. I wouldn’t say it was a […]