From the Daily Mainichi:
Okinawa Shogaku High School won the 80th annual National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament on Friday.
Okinawa Shogaku won its second championship of the tourney by beating Seibo Gakuen High School 9-0 in the final at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya on Friday.
It was the first championship for Okinawa Shogaku representing Okinawa Prefecture […]

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There are plenty of Izakaya bars in Korea, but like the Japanese-style ramen joints that sometimes pop up here, it doesn’t hold a candle to the real thing. Most places use the word Izakaya as an excuse to charge extra for food that’s basically Korean. And in terms of the atmosphere and creativity, I’d might have […]

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Favorites of young and old, rich and poor, pure and perverted, the Japanese school uniform has a long, storied history few of us are aware of. For instance, did you know the uniform’s jacket, the gakuran, traces its linage to the Prussian military?
PingMag, a site I don’t link to nearly enough, has a full wrap on […]

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