#gaikoku
Essential warning on the back of the rental car:

"A foreigner is driving"

Yep. Please be kind to me.
(I got honked at the very first day... in #Japan where supposedly nobody ever honks out of politeness xD)
September 26, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I tried to decide to buy a sensible car. A Japanese hybrid. Easy to fix, cheap to run.

But I can't. I just don't have it in me. I must buy obscure gaikoku car that will be expensive to repair/車検 🤷
September 8, 2026 at 6:19 AM
@glen_malley Yes. The evil gaikoku. Don’t go there. Monsters lurk in the dark
July 24, 2026 at 3:14 AM
@gullevek They do tend to flip out when anything happens to JP people at the hands of evil Gaikoku.
July 24, 2026 at 2:18 AM
忌々しい外国人ども
Imaimashī gaikoku hito-domo

"damned foreigners"
July 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The wall works the same way once you know it:
国 (koku) is ground staked out inside it, a country: 外国 (gaikoku).
園 (en) is land fenced in, a garden: 公園 (kōen), a park.
図 (zu) is territory drawn inside a border, a map: 地図 (chizu).
The same box sits in 固, 団, 困 and 因.
July 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM
I finished reading Butter last night cuz @mortabasi.bsky.social said I’d like it and I did but wow roasting a turkey is really complicated and never having actually adulted in gaikoku I’m kinda impressed that my people know how to do this.
June 28, 2026 at 8:09 AM
What if I really committed to voice training and learning Japanese, moved to Japan, and became *the* American gaikoku-seiyuu, the first person that the anime studios turned to when they needed an English-speaking foreigner for a voice-acting role?
June 14, 2026 at 3:15 AM
新しい時代の扉|Deadly_Poison
「今、私たちはどこに向かっているのだろう」?  高校生の涼介 (りょうすけ) は、放課後の静かな教室でふと呟いた。世界は日々変化しているが、彼はその変化のスピードについていけていない気がしていた。スマートフォンを片手に、SNSやニュースで見る情報の数々が、彼にとってはまるで遠い世界の出来事のように感じられる。  しかし、現実は違う。涼介が住む日本を含め、世界中の国々が密接に絡み合い、互いに影響を与...
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June 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Having a word for non-Japanese comics is a very funny addition to my vocabulary but unfortunately I can never use it because it's this
May 22, 2026 at 11:13 AM
I feel like I saw something about not shipping to gaikoku anymore when I was ordering... But if you're missing J-bookstores, watch Shuppunk! They hang out in my favourite bookstore!
SHUPPUNK
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May 14, 2026 at 11:20 PM
新しい時代の扉|Deadly_Poison
「今、私たちはどこに向かっているのだろう」?  高校生の涼介 (りょうすけ) は、放課後の静かな教室でふと呟いた。世界は日々変化しているが、彼はその変化のスピードについていけていない気がしていた。スマートフォンを片手に、SNSやニュースで見る情報の数々が、彼にとってはまるで遠い世界の出来事のように感じられる。  しかし、現実は違う。涼介が住む日本を含め、世界中の国々が密接に絡み合い、互いに影響を与...
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April 27, 2026 at 8:33 PM
They are electrocuting celebrities in the bathtub on Japanese TV. I get super annoyed by the "weird Japan" articles in gaikoku, but like, damn, Japan. You honestly set yourself up for them sometimes.
April 4, 2026 at 10:34 AM
新しい時代の扉|Deadly_Poison
「今、私たちはどこに向かっているのだろう」?  高校生の涼介 (りょうすけ) は、放課後の静かな教室でふと呟いた。世界は日々変化しているが、彼はその変化のスピードについていけていない気がしていた。スマートフォンを片手に、SNSやニュースで見る情報の数々が、彼にとってはまるで遠い世界の出来事のように感じられる。  しかし、現実は違う。涼介が住む日本を含め、世界中の国々が密接に絡み合い、互いに影響を与...
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March 14, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I'm giving a talk for J-artists who want to be published/exhibit overseas, and it turns out I have So Much to say. I need a week-long workshop to share my thoughts, but all I have is an hour. Clearly, I need to start a talent agency to shepherd manga artists in the gaikoku. (Do not let me do this.)
March 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM