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Scott Wilson

After getting bored with high school French, Scott came to a crossroads in life whether to study Japanese or Native American Mohawk instead. Mohawk's lack of kanji was its ultimate downfall, and Scott hasn't looked back since. After years of non-stop sweating while working as a translator in sweltering Okinawa, he moved back to his native, delightfully frigid Massachusetts to work as a private Japanese tutor. His hobbies include re-reading One Piece for the hundredth time, dreaming about Shakey's Pizza, and getting feedback on stories he's written from both his wife and cat.

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A sign of the times: Japan now has “hand sanitizer stand” gacha capsule toy machines

• Scott Wilson
  Jul 11, 2021
• Tweet

Forehead-scan thermometer not included.

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• Japan
• (capsule machines • capsule toy • disinfectant • gacha • gacha toys • twitter)

The ultimate in water recycling: we try taking a bath in our dehumidifier water

• Scott Wilson
  Jul 4, 2021

When life gives you waste water, don’t put it to waste.

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• Japan
• (chie nomura • eco-friendly • recycling • SNJO • water)

Pizza Hut Japan tries to win over pineapple haters with new bulgogi meat pizza【Taste test】

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 26, 2021

You can’t say it’s gross if you’ve never tried it!

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• Japan
• (pineapple • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • Saya Togashi • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese love doll mistaken for drowned corpse, saved by emergency services anyway

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 19, 2021

At least she’s safe and sound!

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• Japan
• (dolls • funny • love dolls • twitter • weird)

This super-compact raincoat from one of Japan’s 100-yen stores can literally fit in your pocket

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 12, 2021

No more getting caught by surprise in the rain!

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• Japan
• (100 yen shop • 100 yen store • Daiso • Go Hattori • raincoat • SNJO)

We visit Japan’s new Sriracha vending machines to get our spicy red-sauce fix【Pics】

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 11, 2021

Once hard to find in Japan, now it’s super convenient!

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• Japan
• (hot sauce • Nagoya • SNO • spicy • sriracha • taste test • vending machine)

English teacher arrested in Japan for smuggling cannabis oil inside hair treatment bottles

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 5, 2021

Two kilograms found hidden in shampoo pump-bottles.

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• Japan
• (crime • Ibaraki • illegal • illegal drugs • Japanese law • Japanese society • Tsukuba)

Master Ball bug cage lets you finally catch even the most powerful insects out there

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 2, 2021

Forget capturing Mewtwo, it’s time to snatch some beetles!

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• Japan
• (bugs • insects • Poké Ball • Pokemon • Takara Tomy • toys)

Something surprising happens when using the cheapest shower head from Don Quijote【Video】

• Scott Wilson
  May 29, 2021

Whatever you think it is, it’s definitely not.

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• Japan
• (funny • shower • shower head • twitter • video)

Ibaraki Prefecture health center warns to “not eat with foreigners” to prevent spreading COVID

• Scott Wilson
  May 22, 2021

Yikes.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • discrimination • Ibaraki • itako)

Strange Japanese job ad asks to “deliver a pork-egg onigiri” from Okinawa to Tokyo twice per day

• Scott Wilson
  May 9, 2021

Not sure if eccentric or money laundering scheme.

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• Japan
• (funny • Okinawa • onigiri • part time job • pork tamago onigiri • weird)

Japan Post Office to release commemorative Pokémon stamps based on original, iconic trading cards

• Scott Wilson
  May 8, 2021

These are probably going to be worth more than 84 yen each.

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• Japan
• (Japan Post • Pokemon • Pokémon card game • post office • postage stamps • stamps • trading card game)

Have trouble waking up on time? New Japanese app Mezamee will charge you when you sleep in

• Scott Wilson
  Apr 24, 2021

“Oh no, my breakfast money!”

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• Japan
• (app • mazamee • sleeping • smartphone • waking up)

Hyogo Prefecture to give 320,000 fans to restaurants for customers to cover mouths, dine “safely”

• Scott Wilson
  Apr 10, 2021

It’s better than nothing, but….

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • fans • Hyogo • Hyōgo Prefecture • Japanese fans • sensu • Uchiwa)

Japanese city manager gives speech telling new employees to “play around” to fix birth rate issue

• Scott Wilson
  Apr 4, 2021

Ah, yes. Why didn’t we think of that?

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• Japan
• (birth rate • declining birth rate • gender equality • Japanese society • Yamanashi)

Japan’s Olympic stadium to fill thousands of empty spectator seats with waifu pillows

• Scott Wilson
  Apr 1, 2021

Not sure if creative or cringey.

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• Japan
• (anime pillows • April Fools' Day • coronavirus • funny • Olympics • SNO • Tokyo Olympics • waifu)

How do you pronounce “Among Us” in Japanese? Simple question has linguistically deep answer

• Scott Wilson
  Mar 21, 2021

Is “A-MOng Us” or “A-MAng Us” the victor?

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• Japan
• (among us • Japanese linguistics • linguistics • pronunciation)

Japanese school lunch noodles fried so hard that children and teachers chip teeth, go to hospital

• Scott Wilson
  Mar 13, 2021

Underneath those vegetables lies a mass of crunchy nightmares.

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• Japan
• (elementary school • japanese school • Japanese school lunch • Saitama • sara udon • udon)

Is a Shonen Jump VTuber coming? Survey from recent issue hints at strong possibility

• Scott Wilson
  Mar 6, 2021

Is the world ready for a Goku or Luffy virtual YouTuber?

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• Japan
• (HoloLive • Shonen Jump • survey • VTuber • Weekly Shonen Jump • YouTube)

Japanese Twitter realizes that talking about the NES now is the same as old men talking about WW2

• Scott Wilson
  Feb 20, 2021

Oh crap. Has it really been that long?

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• Japan
• (famicom • history • Japanese history • NES • Nintendo Entertainment System • World War II • WWII)

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