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by kizunajp 3y ago
Yes! They have recreated the shop from the manga Dagashi Kashi ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagashi_Kashi ) Their site is unfortunately completely and only in Japanese but scroll to the middle of the page and look f
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by kizunajp 3y ago
Just updated the post with pictures. Thank you for bringing that up.
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Dagashiya: Inside Japan's Largest Candy Shop(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
4 points by kizunajp 3y ago|4 comments
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by kizunajp 3y ago
Yes. In one of his interviews he says when they downsized, he and his employees went for dinner where he cried his heart out and apologized to the 20 part timers(!) he had to lay off. And that he was able to hire three of them back when his
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A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
243 points by kizunajp 3y ago|127 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
> and these days cotton tabis are used only as part of traditional dresses. And in the construction industry - which I think is very unique to Japan. Don't know of any other country that doesn't use shoes. There are also newer
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by kizunajp 4y ago
Well, few things in life actually take linear transitions. Ideas and experience gained from one thing often influence solutions in unrelated domains. Like I've written, the history of the tabi is long and complex, so it necessarily inv
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Tabi: The shoe that became a sock and then a shoe again(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
161 points by kizunajp 4y ago|43 comments
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Japan's Tabi Shoes(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
4 points by kizunajp 4y ago|1 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
> But geothermal power can itself trigger earthquakes Did not know this and it took me down a rabbit hole, starting at this article from the Scientific American: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561206
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How does geothermal drilling trigger earthquakes?(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by kizunajp 4y ago|0 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
Tying small cars to demographic might be a bit of a stretch. Small cars are an effect of the demographics and environment, not the other way round.
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19 years to succeed: Cultivating the first black pearls(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
3 points by kizunajp 4y ago|0 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
Old, but great thread on this topic (2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4784772
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The Washlet: Japan's hi-tech toilet bidets(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
5 points by kizunajp 4y ago|1 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
By taking on a ton of loans. Cultivating the pearls was not an all-or-none exercise. They did get a few good pearls in the 19 years - just not enough to sustain the business. How they found people who gave them loans for 19 years of experim
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19 years to succeed: Cultivating Japan's famous black pearls(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
3 points by kizunajp 4y ago|2 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
The post title was changed to drop the "surprising". Not sure why?
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by kizunajp 4y ago
I agree. Half the comments are about that one statement. You might be on to something here..
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by kizunajp 4y ago
As I clarified in another comment, I was trying to make the point that curry is a genre of foods (as your examples illustrate). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35400253#35400453
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by kizunajp 4y ago
You're right! While I was doing the research for this article I found this to be an interesting read on Japanese curry aka カレーライス: https://metropolisjapan.com/the-origins-of-japanese-curry/
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by kizunajp 4y ago
That makes sense. Thank you.
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by kizunajp 4y ago
I was making the claim that if you went to a restaurant in India, you wouldn't normally find any menu item called "curry", because curry is a genre of foods and not one single item in Indian cuisine.
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The roots of Japan's Indian curry(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
145 points by kizunajp 4y ago|162 comments
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The surprising roots of Japan's Indian curry(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
4 points by kizunajp 4y ago|1 comments
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Luxury for your derrières: Japan's hi-tech Washlets(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
3 points by kizunajp 4y ago|0 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
You are right. My apologies, @flir. It looks like Ghost adds the referrer information despite me trying to strip off as much as I could from the URL. I have removed the links altogether from the post. Thank you for pointing this out.
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by kizunajp 4y ago
There is no referral code on the post. The ASIN is just there so anyone can find the item easily on their country's Amazon site. As we've written in our About page, this is a labor of love and we don't make any money from pos
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“Takumi No Waza” – Japan's famous Green Bell Nail Clippers(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
44 points by kizunajp 4y ago|61 comments
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by kizunajp 4y ago
Related: The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24019826

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