I suppose you don't speak fluently japanese. why? because i don't. i tried to learn it two years, that was alright, but it is difficult to find japanese to speak with. when i arrived in france, i had contact with french people from the first day on, i studied. now i'm working, most other people in the company are japanese, but if you don't need to

I had a fine flight from munich to london and then narita, japan. quite long, but if you do the internet check in of british airways you can have any seat, mine was in the front with plenty of room for my legs. not bad for 670 euros there and back again. i arrived in narita, i already had my visa for an internship, pretty easy as i'm student, it to

Hi everybody, my name is johannes, i'm an engineering student, i started to study at the tu munich and continued at the ec nantes. now i'm doing an internship in japan, that's why i've started the blog. as i got german friends who don't speak french and french friends who don't speak german i write this blog in english, sorry for any mistakes. have

I've lived two years in france. well i tried to eat whatever was served, i tried shells and oysters, snails and hummer. from this point of view, japan is, hum, interesting. another interesting folk who tries to eat everything that seems to be alive. you already know most of it, i suppose you like sushi. it seems quite astonishing that dried algae,

In fact i'm not used to see many machines distributing drinks, in france we had two for cafe and two more for coke and so on at the university. sometimes you find two of them in a train station or a shopping mall. in japan you just can't avoid them, every 200 m, in nearly every street there are one or two of them. not only in town, in industrial ar

Is quite well develloped. but in the morning and afternoon, at peak-time, it's not fun to take it. maybe you have already heard of the guys with white gloves pushing people in the underground to make sure everyone gets in. in the metro you can't move a centimeter, jammed between the sliding doors. some kind of swing doors opening to the outside lik

Some days ago i recognized my first earthquake. there have already been some before, but smaller ones, some friends told me there have been earthquake later. but this one was 4.9 in the north of tokyo, a bit less in mutsumi, where i live. as the scale is logarithmic, this is far less than the really strong earthquakes, like for example the big kano

In japan everyone has a bicycle. it's quite crazy, but as you got more inhabitants per surface, streets are often crouded, there are motorways, huge constructions, with 6 traces as some kind of bridge over large distances, sometimes they cross on different levels, the infrastructure is much better developped than in europe and nevertheless there it