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On July 22nd on the Tokaido Shinkansen, services were suspended between Hamamatsu and Nagoya stations due to a derailment involving two maintenance trains. As my “luck” would have it, I got c...

https://jamaipanese.com/i-spent-the-night-on-a-shinkansen/

Planet Crafter is a very interesting game that describes itself as “a space survival open world terraforming crafting game.” I am usually not a fan of these types of open-world crafting/build...

https://jamaipanese.com/planet-crafter-space-survival-open-world-terraforming-crafting-game/

A new teaser trailer dropped for season two of The Rings of Power recently and I am intrigued. Season one had mixed reviews but again I will state that I liked it. I loved the visuals, the castin...

https://jamaipanese.com/the-rings-of-power-season-2-teaser-trailer/

Recently I was in the market for a compact, affordable, LED-free wireless headphone and the Audio-Technica ATH-M20xBT was the one that I eventually bought. I have owned a lot of headphones and ga...

https://jamaipanese.com/audio-technica-ath-m20xbt-wireless-headphones/

Granblue Fantasy Relink is the best action RPG I’ve played since Elden Ring. Many comparisons have already been made between Granblue Fantasy Relink and Monster Hunter but, I think Relink stand...

https://jamaipanese.com/granblue-fantasy-relink-action-rpg/

Mr Akira Toriyama is a legend in the field of manga. He has worked on many manga, video games and other forms of media but my exposure to his work came from Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest and of co...

https://jamaipanese.com/akira-toriyama-passes-away/

Before checking out House of Ninja, I hadn’t watched a Japanese Drama in years. Previous attempts to get Back in J-dramas always resulted in me being turned off by the overacting, perpetual sch...

https://jamaipanese.com/house-of-ninjas/

Six years ago I got myself a gaming laptop for my Christmas/New Year’s gift to myself. The Dell Inspiron 7577 served me well but in the last year started to show its age when doing more intensi...

https://jamaipanese.com/msi-gf63-my-new-gaming-laptop/

Recently I took the night bus from Hiroshima to Tokyo. The night bus is probably the cheapest way to travel long distances in Japan. You save on accommodation for the night you are traveling and ...

https://jamaipanese.com/night-bus-hiroshima-tokyo/

I ended my 2022 year in review post by saying that in 2023, I wanted to ”…prioritise myself and cultivate healthy connections.” If those were the grading parameters for my year I would say ...

https://jamaipanese.com/2023-year-in-review/