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- Still Thinking About My Ex After 4 Months, But Not Going BackAfter a breakup, your head replays the same relationship over and over.
- I Love McDonald's and Saizeriya, but I Still Want a 10,000-Yen French Meal: Trying Food I've Never Had, for LessI'm not trying to become a gourmet.
- Is a 9% 500 mL can really one drink? It's about 2.6 beersA 500 mL can of 9% chuhai (a Japanese canned spirit-and-soda drink) looks like one can, but it holds 36 g of pure alcohol.
- Is Looking at Sperm and Eggs All Day Kind of Sexy? What I Learned About EmbryologistsThe Japanese job title, "haibaiyoshi" (literally "embryo culture specialist"), doesn't tell you much on its own. In English, it's an embryologist.
- I Drank Yakult 1000 and Still Slept 10 Hours. Maybe That's Sleep Debt Being Collectedsleep-debt-yakult1000-long-sleep.md
- You Can Love Dating Someone and Still Not Want to Marry ThemAfter a relationship ends, we tend to boil the whole past down to a single verdict.
- Sharks Don't Want to Eat You, But You Still Shouldn't Get CloseYou often hear people say this about sharks:
- How to Recover After a Long Walk: What the Research Says About Tired LegsYou walked 6 km, hit the mall, grabbed a meal, stopped by the arcade, and then still got some app design done on the way home.
- "You can forget the book and still learn from it" is half trueThere is a comforting idea about reading:
- “Choo-Choo Locomotive Man” and “Dragon Buster”: What Four-Year-Old Naming Ideas Reveal About Minors, Legal Names, and Future CostsA four-year-old was asked to imagine a name for a soon-to-be-born sibling.
- Is a haircut-model appointment only about saving money? A 110 yen cutIn this case, the haircut-model appointment did not end with “cheap haircut.”
- Can One Person Build a “Company” With AI? What a Low-Cost Content Factory Taught Me About LeverageIt usually does not start with a grand business plan.
- Why Is This Toyokawa Soba Shop Still Full at 12:45 on a Weekday?At 12:45 on a weekday, the usual assumption is that the lunch rush should be fading.
- Never Knowing About Designated-School Recommendations: Lessons in Failing CheapThe most expensive part of university admissions was not the application fee.
- Saving about 10 million yen in your mid-30s: what it really meansAn older acquaintance apparently has around ¥10 million saved while still in their mid-30s. The immediate reaction: that is genuinely impressive.
- It’s 5 a.m.: the body says “sleep,” the brain says “still open”It is 5 a.m.
- Same Language, Still Misunderstood: A Future Where AI Interprets Between PeopleWhen people hear the word “translation,” they usually think of translation between languages.
- The Factory Got Built Before the 1,500 Articles: What Happens When AI Compounds Exploring, Structuring, Improving and AutomatingMaking a ton of articles with AI isn't news anymore.
- Jujutsu KaisenDon’t Misread the Signs Before Confessing: Updating Beliefs and Testing HypothesesIn September 2017, a post called "A Confession Guideline by a Science Grad Student" appeared on Hatena Anonymous Diary, a Japanese site where people post…
- Seeing It but Not Speaking Up Isn’t Laziness. It’s Adapting to Your EnvironmentYou can see it.
- Why Couples Break Up When Neither Person Is the Bad GuyWhen we look back on a breakup, we love to find a culprit.
- When a Low-Resolution Review Puts a Ceiling on What I Can BecomeLate at night, out walking, I'm still thinking about the company and how organizations work.
- Why Getting Stuck With Someone Else's Mistake Makes You So Mad (and How to Say No)Someone says, "Sorry, could you take this with you?"
- Astra and Opus 5 in Copilot aren't free: it starts at $39 a monthIn September 2026, AI billing came up with one more way to wreck your wallet and your brain at the same time.
- Why Can't I Rest, Even When I'm Lying Around Doing Nothing?You decided that today you'd do absolutely nothing. Then you notice you're already looking something up on your phone.
- Does One Problem Mean You Can't Trust Them? Why "Zero Mistakes" Is the Wrong Kind of SecurityTo keep this free of anything identifying, let's use two made-up people, A and B.
- Heavy tasks depend on whether your body has recovered, not whether you have timeYou can still get things done after work on a weekday.
- When Will Full Self-Driving Let Us Go to Sleep and Wake Up at a Vacation Spot?A lot of people are excited about fully self-driving cars.
- When an Anonymous Blog Grows Too Big, You Can't Claim It AnymoreSay an anonymous project has grown to 12 languages and over 1,000 posts, with AI-assisted writing, translation, Markdown, GitHub and automation all running.
- Answering “Aren’t You Rich, Boss?” With VTuber Merch: Shigure Ui’s Art Reproductions Alone Cost 3.31M YenIn September 2026, a company owner posted on X that when people ask "You're a president, so you're rich, right?", he answers that he couldn't even buy every…
- Is Studying Enough? A Modern Way to Hedge Your Risks: Study, Beat the Aptitude Lottery, and Spread Your IncomePlenty of adults tell kids and young people things like this:
- Why 28°C Can Feel Chilly, and Why Mosquitoes Bite While You SleepSummer isn't only about being hot.
- Yuino vs. Wedding Ceremony: What's the Difference, and Is Skipping Yuino Normal?Listen to people talk about getting married and the vocabulary suddenly explodes partway through.
- Teacher, do magnetic clothes actually work?Here is the line to underline.
- Blog Traffic After 6 Months: Search Demand Is Measured, Not GuessedBefore starting a blog, it is easy to imagine that six months should be enough time to build 20 or 30 posts and enter a world where readers simply appear.
- The 199-yen-per-100g trap: why "so cheap!" becomes "per 100g?"A sign shows a huge “¥199.”
- Enemies and allies aren't fixed seats: Hyperinflation's payoff matrixIn Hyperinflation, labels such as “enemy” and “ally” become obsolete at remarkable speed.
- Is 6 million yen a high salary? Why "all my friends earn it" misleadsA classic salary argument goes like this.
- I can't subtract 7 or hold seven digits, but life works fineYou can be bad at mental arithmetic and still function perfectly well in modern life.
- Why no styes despite staring at a phone all day? The eye-strain mythMicroscope at work. Phone during breaks. Manga or other close-up reading at home.
- Does Connecting an API Make Affiliate Revenue Automatic? ValueCommerce, Awin, LinkSwitch, and the End of Manual Link ChoresConnecting ValueCommerce or Awin does not turn an API key into a money printer.
- Changing a kei car address: counters, certificates, documents, platesYou arrive at Japan’s Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization to update the address on a kei car.
- I went to Yokkaichi Municipal Museum for cats and left gratefulThe plan was casual: choose between a museum and a shopping complex near central Yokkaichi, then kill some time.
- Do weddings cause divorce? Costs, guest counts and social networksA grim little statistic circulated on social media:
- Engaged at one year, legally married at 18 months, wedding at two years: the day a wedding turned everyone’s relationship timeline into a comparison chartWeddings have a strange effect: other people’s life timelines suddenly become extremely high-resolution.
- The Request Takes 3 Minutes; the Chore Lasts Until 11 PMThe worker has a stable main job and spends money on hobbies. That does not imply financial distress.
- QB signs, ema plaques and a crane game that returns the prizeAt an anime-related spot, there was a small instruction about where a Kyubey mascot should be placed.
- Can Amazon FBA make decluttering easy? Barcodes, FC splits, wallsWhen you declutter before or after a move, boxes quickly fill with books, games, figures, small electronics, and miscellaneous goods.
- Why does logistics choke in peak season despite automation?Buy ten things online and, from the customer side, almost nothing happened.
- Firsthand AI writing vs AI news commentary: what's different?There is a slightly rude hypothesis that becomes tempting when you read a lot of AI coverage:
- How does a sewer clean wastewater? 7,900 km under NagoyaThere is a second surprise.
- ChiikawaWhy does the running tree know everything? Chiikawa parallel worldChiikawa still looks like a story about tiny cute creatures. Write the Parallel World arc as a technical summary, however, and the genre abruptly changes.
- Is Toyota Kaikan fun if you're not a car nerd? Robots and a LexusA car museum can sound like a place for people who memorize model codes, horsepower figures, and trim levels.
- "That has to be AI": why hybrid ads mix generated worlds and peopleYou are watching a commercial.
- Why midnight “personality audits” hurt so much: breakup self-analysis, identity threat, and the next-day rehearing ruleMidnight: “I’ll just think about why the relationship ended.”
- How to Score Higher on an Arcade Punch Machine: Power Starts at the Floor, Not the BicepsAn arcade punch machine triggers a very predictable human thought: “What happens if I hit this thing as hard as I possibly can?”
- Made in AbyssMade in Abyss chapters 73-74 and the wish machine theoryWhat does the Abyss want? Does it kill people on purpose, collect souls, or manufacture Relics? Those questions assume that the Abyss has an intention.
- Iris Ohyama vacuum: four blue battery lights blink but won't chargePlug in the charging cable.
- What to do around Sakae until 6 p.m.: sewers, expressways, a new mallOn September 6, 2026, the question was simple: how do you spend a few interesting hours around Sakae, Nagoya, and still be back around Sakae by about 6 p.m.?
- AI scored 99.95% on easy 2D games: ARC-AGI-3 and trading edgesAI has been strangely uneven.
- Do one in three young workers quit in three years? 30 years of data“About one in three new graduates leaves within three years. Young people these days…”
- Why can affection fail to get through? Partners have no tailsOne of the hardest things about relationships is that the amount of affection sent and the amount stored as security are not the same thing.
- Four months after a breakup: how do men and women feel?On average, many people are well past the most acute phase by then.
- The Health Check Felt Like a Spa, the Blood Draw Like a Shipping Lane, and at City Hall the User Did the Root-Cause Analysis — A Sleep-Deprived Day of Self-Maintaining Healthcare and Government ProceduresThe pre-employment health check had already begun strangely: details confirmed in advance had to be explained again, turning the patient into a walking backup…
- Why do some people look ridiculously young? Jawlines, UV, retinolSome people are in their forties and still get read as thirty-something.
- Hamamatsu’s Tonkaraten: I Came for the “Broken-Value” Lunch and Ended Up Debating Frozen TonkatsuMy stomach had already decided: tonkatsu.
- The Vehicle Yard Looks Bigger Than the Factory, a Scooter Costs Six Months’ Pay, and the Museum Is Free — Suzuki Plaza Beyond ManufacturingThis is part four of the Suzuki Plaza field-report series.
- If living costs exceed salaries, how is everyone alive? Asia checkPut average take-home pay and a modeled solo cost of living side by side, and Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand can look as if the average worker is doomed to…
- I Only Went to a Public Pool—Then One Lifeguard Led Me to Real Estate, Financing, and McDonald’sThe plan was not complicated.
- The Day an Adult Somehow Got the Toddler Price at a Premium Chinese Buffet — 30 Minutes Late, Full in 30, Dessert Found Through Someone Else’s ConversationI had booked a premium Chinese buffet for lunch on a day off.
- How an Eight-Year Free Haircut Model Ended Up Auditing the Hairdressing Industry in a 90-Minute ConversationOne evening, I went to a salon in a regional city as a haircut model.
- You don't have to ruin good memories with an exAfter a breakup, anger often fades with time.