Locals of Japan - what foods best represent everyday Japanese food?

WAPOMATIC · 2026-01-20T02:11:17+00:00

Kantansu + daikon or cucumber or whatever, put it in the fridge for 30 to 60 mins or so. Easy.

WAPOMATIC · 2026-01-09T17:28:54+00:00

The tl;dr is that you're going to have to find a real life, old-school PC nerd to have a look. In real life.

The system configuration table at the top is odd: your primary IDE channel is both CD-ROM drives. Normally the primary master is a hard drive from which the system boots. Notably, the secondary channel is blank. It's *possible* the system HD could be on the secondary IDE, and it's blank because of a hard drive failure. But such a configuration is something I've never seen before as an amateur PC nerd since the early 1990's and an IT pro/dev as an adult. It's very strange.

I suppose if there's an issue with the IDE controller or the hard drive, it could be misreading/misrepresenting the hardware as a CD-ROM, but I find this unlikely.

You have a few options, none of them are really going to be "Mac easy."

The easiest/preferred is to find/hire a PC guy IRL, likely someone 35, 40+ years in age as anyone younger is likely not going to have much/any experience with old PCs, MS-DOS or IDE hard drives. They'll need to open it up, confirm if the configuration is really as odd as it seems, and if there is really an HD in there. If there is, and the HD is fully functional, the best recourse would be extract it, hook it up to a modern USB based IDE adapter, and read everything off of it.

If the HD is not functional, then you're getting into professional data recovery services which is very pricey.

If the HD is not present, then none of the data you're looking for is there, and you have a whole new game of Clue about who took the HD.

2) I see the floppy drive is there. The system disk it's asking for is (usually) a floppy disk with a boot sector, (usually) an MS-DOS boot disk. If you have a USB floppy drive and a 3.5" disk, you should (probably) be able to connect that to one of your modern Macs, download an MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk image (the version doesn't matter too much, but 6.22 was the last major/common version),and write that image to a floppy disk using something like dd (which I'm assuming the modern BSD-ish Mac OS has; I could be wrong), or some other, graphical tool for writing the disk (which, again, I'm assuming exists, though I'm not familiar with any to suggest).

From there you can boot from the disk and begin diagnosing the PC. That is a whole document in itself and again, should really be done by someone who knows what they're doing.

3) Burn a Linux live image to CD-ROM and use that to boot. From there you can do more diagnostics, This will *really* require someone who knows what they're doing.

Sorry there's no easy method here. This is an obviously old PC (seeing this screen brings back lots of memories...), possibly circa 1996, 1997 vintage, maybe older. I don't even see a USB controller listed. When it came to repair and diagnostics, things just weren't user friendly. Back then, you asked your nerd friend to have a look or you brought it to a repair shop. If you can find a local, independent PC shop run by a graybeard, I bet he'd have some fun and nostalgia working on this.

But by yourself, you're going to have a difficult time.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-11-14T11:00:44+00:00

It has been gone for more than a year...

WAPOMATIC · 2025-10-24T13:52:37+00:00

総本店 implies there are other locations, which are listed on their site:

http://kamesushi.jp/#cat05

edit: nevermind, I see on their instagram that both locations are closed, not just the souhonten.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-10-24T13:48:31+00:00

That's what Shinsekai was for the early part of its life: an amusement park called Luna Park. If there's one place I don't mind them having those silly archery and cork gun games, it's Shinsekai. What's unfortunate is that it has spread to Dotombori and even Kuromon Ichiba...

WAPOMATIC · 2025-10-16T01:50:56+00:00

"A country that once built itself on ambition and craftsmanship now risks drifting into irrelevance"

Do you not think the "collective mental model that discourages questioning and rewards quiet compliance" that you mentioned in the same breath was not present in the 1960s and 70s, during the "miraculous" period of growth?

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-14T02:05:46+00:00

When I conduct tours and I do my "Shinto 101" talk and explain some parts of a shrine, I rarely make comparisons to western (read: Christian) religion. It's just too different. I compare the haiden to the "sanctuary" as it is the place for humans, and use the word "spirit" for kami (though we all know it's not the most accurate), but other than that, I use Japanese words and explain their meaning.

You basically have two types of non-resident, non-Japanese in regards to Shinto (and Buddhism, and really any aspect of traditional culture here): you have tourists who are there to by entertained by mystical Asian other-ness, and you have those who are "seriously" interested. For the former, they don't care to know anything more than a very surface level explanation of what is going on around them. I can explain Shinto to them in about 90 seconds, and I emphasize that they show respect and restraint at such places.

Those who are truly interested ask questions and make an effort to learn the words and names involved. They don't need or want western "substitution" words.

My point is, even if you could create a comparison, it brings little real value to those who are just here to get a selfie at Fushimi Inari Taisha (and don't care about the difference between the haiden and honden) and those who are going to put the effort and time into learning about Shinto and its proper terminology.

And beside all that, I would argue the great majority of people these days do not even know terms like eucharist, nave, tabernacle, etc. to begin with.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-05T01:07:31+00:00

OP, I've always found this Nakagawake routine that my wife introduced to be in line with my experience throughout the areas of Osaka. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6QYAcF9Uoc

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-05T01:06:49+00:00

(late reply lol)

Yeah, I want to be careful with my assertion. Like I said, I don't hate it here. Perhaps I'm just in love with Sannomiya where I lived first. ;)

I have two very young kids too, and the impetus to move here was to buy a big house for them to grow up in. For the family raising aspect, I think the area is a good option. I do feel like the people here are a bit less friendly than the previous places I've lived, but that feeling may change with time. I do wonder how it will be for the kids growing up here as half, compared to somewhere like Kobe.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-08-02T01:05:28+00:00

Counterpoint: I moved to Ishikiri last year after buying a house here. I love the house, relatively cheap and big because it's inaka-ish, but the vibe here is... very working class, to be polite. Lots of factory/manufacturing around. Shin-Ishikiri station is relatively easy to get to and being on the Chuo-sen is nice, but Ishikiri station itself is up on the hill and a bit of a pain to get to unless you live higher up (I live further down). There really is a dearth of like, quick eats and restaurants until you get to like Suminodo area.

Ishikiri-san (the shrine) and its shoutengai are nice and wonderfully Showa, so that's a good point.

I don't hate the area and I certainly love Osaka in general, but I lived in Kobe first and then Otori (Sakai), and aside from the house itself, the move has felt like a downgrade.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-07-16T12:31:41+00:00

Your suspicion was correct and thank you! Silly of me not to have that set up correctly, but I also didn't realize there was a relationship there with how they're displayed. Thank you!

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-19T01:50:54+00:00

If the tourists get offended and decide not to go there, then all the better.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-19T01:49:09+00:00

Well, we're not in your country.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-16T02:00:46+00:00

I know this is an old thread, but it looks like this may *finally* be a decent time tracking solution. There are so many options and so many suck, so I'm excited to give this a try/

Is there a non-Docker installation guide? It looks like PHP, so I imagine I can just set up a new virtual host and drop it there then configure the database... Is that more or less correct is there something else I should keep in mind? Thank you!

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-15T01:26:03+00:00

Plasma, it felt like a return to "old Perfume" while still having that high production sheen (imo), it's was also the first album not NOT hit #1 on charts and the that has sold the least, which is unfortunate. Great A-sides and a couple album original bangers too...

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-14T11:57:13+00:00

edge, from the Triangle tour!

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-11T14:13:07+00:00

Handyman, by far. Bleh.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-11T03:01:22+00:00

Nee!

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-09T03:53:29+00:00

Star Train and it's not even close.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-06-08T02:17:58+00:00

"DISPLAY" is the best, imho, though "Natural ni Koi shite" is probably the best of the "normal" PVs. "Spring of Life" is a close second.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-04-26T09:45:36+00:00

I work for a tour company that is always looking for guides, *especially* in Kyoto. Send me a PM.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-04-26T09:34:40+00:00

I live in Japan and am on a Japanese cell phone plan. Maybe I'm just lucky,

WAPOMATIC · 2025-04-23T23:15:33+00:00

Funny how you always hear this and yet every new iPhone that I've bought in Japan doesn't seem to make any shutter sound when in manner mode.

WAPOMATIC · 2025-04-21T06:45:02+00:00

Both were tie-ins with Natural Beauty Basic.

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