Tokyo Damage Report

Tama Reien (多摩霊園）,  a cemetery that makes Yoyogi Park look like a parking spot. Located in suburban Tokyo (Musashi Koganei is the nearest station). Famous for being the resting place of Yukio Mishima, among others.
Looks pretty normal, right?

But what's that on the center right? Can we get a close-up?

Huh? A slot? What's that about? Let's [...]

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Nate (from the Ramenate blog) took me to kubikiri Jizo -  just a few feet from Minami Senju station (those are the Hibiya-sen tracks there in back).
As you can tell from the name, kubikiri means "neck cutting" – this cemetery was built on an Edo-era execution ground (further evidence of which is the 'namidabashi' bridge [...]

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First of all: the synonym dictionary has been updated: lots of new useage tags, 99% of unanswered questions resolved, and corrections made by readers, um. . . corrected.  Eventually I'll probably include example sentences, but for now – done!
 
check it out!!

 
However, the dictionary was so damn big it not only almost broke Wordpress, it also [...]

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In 1995, me and some friends made a band:  Adjetive Noun (sic), which was a hardcore punk band about smashing the system/Man/scene.  We had one song. However, despite our uncompromising war with authority, corporations, and bands-with-more-than-one-song, we had a deep, dark secret: in our spare time, we played PROGRESSIVE ROCK with KEYBOARD SOLOS and polyrhythms [...]

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OK, here's something I and my teacher have been working on for the past two years:
A sort of "synonym dictionary" to help us gaijin tell Japanese synonyms apart. What are the differences in nuance, and useage?
And more importantly, when are you supposed to use one and not the other?
I made a wiki of this about [...]

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spotted in Asagaya:  Poster for the Jiminto Party's Mr. Ishihara (son of the Tokyo governor!)

Where have I seen this before??

Intentional?

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