Tips for an easier life

Welcome to your Gaijin Guide!

April 7, 2009

Just a short welcome to say thank you for visiting and I hope you find something of use here. Please feel free to register and comment on any of the articles you have read, to add to what you’ve read and to correct our authors. Translators for some of the more common languages are most […]

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How to display Japanese characters on your PC (Windows XP)

April 2, 2009

There are 2 main aspects to “using” Japanese on your Windows XP computer: viewing/reading, and writing. It’s actually quite straight forward to set it up to do both and I’m going to show you how.

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Amazon Japan sign-up in Japanese

March 26, 2009

If you’re looking to do online shopping in Japan, there are many websites out there, but of course 99% of them are in Japanese. An exception to this is Amazon Japan. where they have a partially bilingual website that let’s you browse and search for products in English also. However, to open an account, the […]

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