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Just Another List: Festivals in Hyogo, August 2015
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Just Another List: Festivals in Hyogo, August 2015

ByDana Warren

    So you want to see a summer festival this year? Chances are that whatever town you find yourself living in will have a perfectly lovely matsuri or three all prepared. However, if you want to venture elsewhere in our fine prefecture here’s a few you may have heard of.     Dekansho Matsuri…

Restaurant Review: Ramen Tarou (らめんたろう)
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Restaurant Review: Ramen Tarou (らめんたろう)

ByElaine Tamargo

Ramen Tarou is easily my favorite and most frequented ramen shop. It has everything that a diner looking for a quick casual eat could want in the search for ramen goodness—a bright space, a menu with large pictures, satisfying ramen with amazing ingredients, and of course, FREE kimchi to snack on before your meal or…

How the Japanese Welcome the New Year
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How the Japanese Welcome the New Year

ByCJ Stearns

2012. A new year begins, and for me, an American in Japan, it looks like it’s going to be quite a ride. The yen is up, the dollar down. The Tohoku region is still picking up what the earthquake/tsunami left behind. The world scrambles against global warming and an uncertain economy. The ancient Mayans predicted…

Love and Relationships: Die Alone
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Love and Relationships: Die Alone

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As I was lazily flipping through my Facebook photos, I came upon some shots that I couldn’t recognize. The guy in the shot was absolutely fabulous, corky, was wearing a chic pink-checkered-printed shirt with a denim pant and recently faded out Mohawk haircut. He was bright-eyed and bushy tailed, some would say. He had a…

January 2013
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January 2013

ByHyogo Times Editor

MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Happy New Year,　明けましておめでとうございますand so on and so forth. Welcome to the first Hyogo Times of 2013. First up, I guess we all have to accept that the Mayans messed up somewhere in their calculations. Clearly there can be no other explanation for the fact that the world is still turning and…