After having the Outsider on my Netflix list for a while, I finally saw this yakuza story. It’s dark, bloody, and entertaining. But it does have some issues regarding the Japanese culture. Despite all its flaws, I enjoyed seeing Jared …
I found another jewel on Netflix: Aggressive Retsuko, also known as Aggretsuko. Meet office lady Retsuko and his quest to live better. She gets rid of all the bad vibes from work in the karaoke. You have no idea how …
Happy Valentine! Although there are many ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the Japanese style is the sweetest. Morozoff Ltd. introduced Valentine for the first time in 1936. It wasn’t until 1953 that promoting chocolates was the way to go. However, …
Today I have a very emotional Pepi in Wonderland because we’re going to remember the 3/11. As you know, five years ago, a huge Earthquake and Tsunami hit the northern part of Japan. This was a megathrust, a one in …
Welcome to another Pepi in Wonderland chapter. I thought that it would be interesting to talk about Ma, the Japanese concept of space. Though appartments and homes can be minuscule in Japan, and sometimes even too crowded with stuff, reality …
Pepi in Wonderland gets addicted to karaoke. Do you remember the film Lost in Translation? Just before landing in Tokyo, I watched the movie, and I was hooked by the karaoke scene: a room, with friends, and singing. I’ve never …
Pepi in Wonderland this time is a little bit mischievous. We’re going to talk about love hotels in Japan, where the crazy things happen. Before going to Japan I had no fix idea about love hotels, but after arriving I …
Another chapter of Pepi in Wonderland is here, and this time it comes with a twist. Have you read Gulliver’s Travels? If you have, you already know that Gulliver gets trapped by people from Lilliput. Well, in my travels, I …
Yay! Another chapter of Pepi in Wonderland! Today, I lost my show. Well, not exactly like that. In fact: I lost my shoes. How? Imagine a world in which every single time you step in and out your home, your …
Yup, another chapter of Pepi in Wonderland. Today is all about aliens. When I came back from Europe, I just felt that everyone is so alien. I first landed in Vienna, Austria. It’s not that you find all strange people …
So here we are again with a new chapter of Pepi in Wonderland. Today we are going to talk about Japanese etiquette: Japanese bowing. Japanese bow as a salute, to say thank you or to apologize. Rules are quite complicated, …
So here we are again with a new chapter of Pepi in Wonderland. This time, we are going to talk about the gomi adventures, also known as how to manage the trash. This might seem totally weird, but I never …