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Oh my god... this cafe has a little "river" with floating baskets with customer orders, and each seat is a stop on the Tōkaidō, I fucking love this so much #food

omg... encountered extremely happy dachshunds... my heart is so full

Got the second bookmark on the way out #ヒモノラ大作戦

*My great-grandparents on my father's side, as well as my mother's father's side, immigrated from Japan, while my mother's mother was born and raised in Hiroshima and left after the war... but it's easier to call myself 4世 than explain all that lol

First bookmark and also lunch at Maruya #food #ヒモノラ大作戦

Under the revised guidelines, an applicant will additionally be required to have an annual income in excess of the average for a Japanese household, as well as projected pension benefits equivalent to those the applicant would receive after 30 years of enrollment in an employees' pension program at that income level.

Fuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Japan gov't to impose tougher requirements for permanent residency

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260726/p2g/00m/0na/023000c

#japanpol

Holy shit, no wonder I was feeling faint when we left the restaurant Today was a lot of fun but also, real talk... this is the kind of day you should stay inside and play video games under the AC... don't be like us kids, take heat exhaustion seriously

Himonora prizes GET!!! Glow-in-the-dark eraser, keychain, clear file, and two ~special~ cards lol #ヒモノラ大作戦

Driving along the coast and not daring to get out lest we immediately melt Whose idea was it to go to Shizuoka during this heat wave?! *hot dog costume meme*

I don't mean to shit on Iwata. From everything I've seen and heard about him, he seemed like a lovely man who did care deeply about the games and culture at Nintendo But let's not kid ourselves. He didn't take a pay cut because he loves his workers, he did it because he had to, because those are the laws and protections that labor unions here fought and bled for. The way Westerners, even people who are in labor unions!!, get so romantic about The One Good CEO is like. embarrassing, lmfao

**idk when my great-grandparents immigrated, whether it was when Hawai'i was still an independent kingdom or after the plantation oligarchs illegally overthrew it. My best guess would be either just before or right at the start of the Bayonet Constitution, which coincided with a lot of people leaving the Kyushu and Hiroshima regions due to crop failures, and my family is from those regions. But like I said. I don't actually know lol, because of *jazz hands* anti-Japanese racism during that time

Overslept by a lot (it is 10:50 and I am still in bed ) so uhhh guess we're not going to Numazu again today, lol The good news is that the Himonora event runs til the end of August, so plenty more chances to go to Numazu again to pick up our glow-in-the-dark erasers lol

Numazu is also home to the Kinnikuman Museum Most museums dedicated to specific series are located in the artists' hometowns. But Nakai Yoshinori and Shimada Takashi (the duo behind Kinnikuman, also collectively known as Yudetamago, "boiled eggs") are from Osaka. So why is the museum here? Because they both went on vacation in and fell in love with Numazu They're just like us fr fr If I ever get famous, my museum won't be on O'ahu or even Fujisawa, it'll be in Numazu

Since we escaped the fish market today without really looking, making up for it by listening to Iida Noritaka's excellent album about Numazu Minato Shinsenkan (Numazu Port Shopping Center) https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2W9zHTGDW6KDgCzrpCJthBAF6Ve_Gc8J

Leaving the fish market area for now, gonna come back later to turn in our bookmarks and get final omiyage. TTFN

We have arrived in Numazu Sannoura General Information Office which also apparently doubles as a Love Live Aquors museum lol We bought a bottle of mikan juice and sparkling lemonade, and snagged our seventh Himonora bookmarks #ヒモノラ大作戦

Stopped by Izu Fruits Park for some melon ice cream (pictured) and a box of slightly bruised (and therefore half price lol) peaches #food

The seats for Fujisawa were already taken so we sat at Hakone and waited for our Neapolitan ice cream to arrive... this was too funny... we were actually just planning to grab the bookmarks and head to the next place, but would YOU pass up the chance to have dessert that came floating down the river?! #food

Also got a package of dried dates, figs, and apricots. Just need some plain yogurt and yum... Sunday brunch GET #food

Third bookmark GET: bought Himonora T-shirts from Yokoya and got these bookmarks, then escaped back to the car to bathe in AC and drink water. (I'll take pics of the shirts at home lol) It is so dangerously hot y'all, have fun but be careful out there lol #ヒモノラ大作戦

There was this Big Chair And also a Big Bee that chased us out of the gacha machine area

We also had Mishima croquettes but ate them before I could get a pic Then again we always get them when we come here lol, it's routine at this point #food

jfc lmao

[B]aseless claims spread on social media alleging that it was "a terrorist attack carried out by operatives" or that "a nuclear weapon was used." [...] Other posts shared images purportedly showing clouds after the quake and claimed that it was an "artificial earthquake." Some conspiracy theories alleged that foreigners or specific politicians were involved.

False claims and AI images fuel misinformation after Kumamoto earthquake

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260730/p2a/00m/0na/012000c

@lukito@pelicanfly.fyi I'm with Pixel tbh :neofox_catmode:

Ordered kakiage, basically a tower of deep-fried seafood that you topple over rice and douse with sauce. It was very good but also Too Much lol, I could only eat about a third before giving up and asking for a takeout container Daikon also ordered a little pot of broth to pour over the remains to make chazuke... it looks good but also who can eat chazuke in this heat, hahaha #food

Over the weekend (I think, I don't remember when tbh) I played walk! It got a bit of buzz so you may have already seen it, but I am here to say that it is A Good Un, it's less than ¥300 and is a delightful way to spend an hour or so. I wish the weather here wasn't so awful, it makes me want to take some walks... https://store.steampowered.com/app/4563880/walk/

We have arrived in Numazu

New #blog post! A couple of tips and tricks I learned using #Sublime Text to code my websites! https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2026-07-15-Tips-and-tricks-with-Sublime-Text.html #Blogging #IndieWeb

Daikon (who is currently reading the Japanese version with me) explained it to me like, what if the NeverEnding Story didn't have any of the scenes with Bastian reading the book in the school attic, and it was PURELY a story about Atreyu in Fantasia. And it's not like, a LESSER book for it, but knowing how the original is structured, it makes you look for all the ways that it had to be adapted to drop this meta framing. idk it's neat lol, sorry to gush

A 71-year-old second-generation Korean resident in Japan living in Osaka [...] watched the speeches and march that day from a distance, and said, "They use the soft words 'immigration policy,' but isn't ethnic discrimination at the root? I feel a sense of crisis that many citizens are taking part in the demonstration without realizing it."

Shadows of hate, extremism hang over anti-immigration rally in Osaka

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260729/p2a/00m/0na/016000c

#japanpol

Pit stop somewhere near Hakone and. it is so cool outside?? Shizuoka has totally cooked my brains, 27C outside is downright CHILLY in comparison

The scary thing is I can take a picture of some random spot in Numazu and @PRINCESS@pelicanfly.fyi can identity where it is even tho he's never been here

Staying inside cars can ensure privacy but experts warn of the risk of "economy class syndrome," in which blood clots form due to long hours in the same position.

God, there is never a GOOD time for a major earthquake to hit, but why do they always seem to hit right when the weather is the absolute worst for evacuations

Power outages, heat prompt evacuees to stay in cars after Japan quake

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260729/p2g/00m/0na/055000c

Holy shit, huge earthquake (shindo 7) in Kumamoto https://news.web.nhk/kishou-saigai/earthquake/

@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net omg right?? 27C under normal circumstances sounds at the upper limits of comfortable, bordering on "too hot"... but during/after a heatwave, it's like being under the AC

@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net Isn't it so cute??? I wish we could have sat at the Fujisawa station LOL

@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net I sure hope so, these are really nice and I worked hard to collect em

Started on Lillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant tonight and as predicted, this is EXTREMELY my jam. Extremely messy (I say this with affection) and funny and like the best kind of Asian daytime drama hahaha, I am having a total blast with this one so far https://www.lillianliauthor.com/number-one-chinese-restaurant #Bookstodon

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz Yeah, this summer has been brutal :neofox_googly_shocked: I hope the summer in the southern hemisphere doesn't get this bad... it's miserable hahaha

Mar would later learn that many sushi workers from Myanmar often earned below minimum wage, working 12-hour days for flat daily or monthly pay. Overwhelmingly, these are asylum-seekers waiting for work authorization, international students, or undocumented immigrants. Most have no health insurance or employment benefits.

The hidden cost of America’s supermarket sushi boom

https://prismreports.org/2026/07/29/grocery-store-sushi-workers-myanmar/

Gonna start #streaming some pomodoros + Japanese study session, if you need some company while studying then come hang out! https://twitch.tv/renkotsuban #StudyWithMe #Japanese #Anki

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz Thank you, it looks like it's gonna be a real scorcher of a year

The "feels like" temperature being 39C at 6pm with an incoming thunderstorm to give me a weather migraine Kanto summer is here and I truly hate it lol

Many good reviewers already respect translators in their reviews without thinking about it, but many others do not (usually not deliberately). Maybe we can shift the conversation to [...] bring the translators out of the shadows in our reviews and give them the credit that they deserve, since translations do not appear out of nowhere. A translator makes a translation happen, and their work deserves to be seen.

Essay: SFT Overload

https://www.sfintranslation.com/?p=17348

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