From Our Blog…
- - We’ve just added Blue Ribbon Billiard Hall into the directory. It’s a great place to visit if you’re looking for somewhere for some serious billiard play. We all know there are plenty of places around with a table stuck in the corner of the bar, but where do you go when you are looking for [...]
- - Kokusai Dori is a great place to visit on Sunday. The road is closed for most of the day so you can wander up and down without worrying about getting mown down by the usually busy traffic!
Apart from the road being closed and the numerous shops most of which are quite touristy, great if you’re [...]
- - Borjan Hair Salon has just opened in Sunabe along the seawall!
You can get a stylish hair cut or color while relaxing in a modern clean salon with beautiful views over the East China Sea. Yukari the owner and stylist arrived from Tokyo in March 2009, but she has worked worldwide including London, New York, Washington [...]
- - Well more than a month has passed since we bought Blackberry Bolds for our staff so we thought we would do a mini review for all those thinking of buying one.
Firstly, one of the units we ended up with had the “hot” problem! As of writing I am not sure if Docomo has restarted selling [...]
- - We know it’s not exactly earth shattering news, but we thought we could do the whole classifieds thing better than anyone else.
We took a look at all the other systems out there and they usually involve money or have no photos or they want to know all your personal details…
So although we can’t claim to [...]
- - If you’ve not got round to buying an iphone yet or haven’t been able due to purchasing restrictions from Softbank then you may want to check out the latest gadget from Docomo and RIM coming to Docomo stores sometime in the next few days of February, the Blackberry bold.
Japan is a bit behind other countries [...]
- - In a speed breaking announcement, Okinawa Cable Network will be supplying 120Mbps internet connections from around March!
This is well worth checking out if your building can receive cable internet. It’s faster than an NTT fibre connection and cheaper as well. The fee starts from only Y4725 which is seriously cheap for this speed! Click the [...]
- - After a couple of years of suffering from all the lovely flora and fauna that Okinawa has to offer, we thought it was a good idea to do a series of health and home articles on what to do when the flora is not so friendly! If you live on or off base, you are [...]
- - We’ve spent a great deal of time crawling the web for the best Okinawa based used and new car dealerships. It’s not easy finding English information on where to buy a car. Rather than promoting one or two businesses we have put everything we can find with links to their car sales pages on one [...]
- - Looking for a job in Okinawa? No problem, we’ve put together a listing of the employment websites related to Okinawa, Japan. Most of the military branches submit their jobs to usajobs.gov; however, there are sometimes local positions that don’t seem to make that listing.
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