Simply don't. It makes you look cheap, and can have the exact opposite effect desired. Look at this website. Yamagata Prefecture, where I live, has declared that they would like to increase the number of overseas tourists, but somehow they think using a machine-translated site is going to do that. What that means is, they […]

Want to change the world? Put your idea into action. With traction, the right idea can spread throughout the world. However, to get that traction, the idea has to be replicable. It has to have the ability to spread easily. How do you know if an idea is easy to gain traction? You don't unless […]

Last year I made more money than I ever had before. That was through a combination of my normal jobs, plus a few extra translations and a little bit of interpretation. If I were just in it for the money, I would probably be a translator or interpreter. The reason I'm not is that I'm […]

Like traveling, meeting different types of people is a great way to broaden your outlook. The many ways we all think is as extraordinary and broad as the places we have in the world. Actually, since there's more people, it's probably broader! Anyway, getting to know many different people is a great way to learn […]

What good is recognition from having the most money as opposed to having your ideas spread? It's about having an idea and sharing it. It's about thinking about who you are serving, and building something for them. Share the idea. The idea of a trip to the Japanese countryside. The idea of living in a […]

I have a friend who states that he doesn't like sport. He sees it as useless back and forth (but he also loves games, which I consider a sport, I think he means like rugby, soccer and stuff). Anyway, it's obvious that he wasn't very good at sport, otherwise you probably wouldn't say this. If […]

Japanese hospitality in general is much better than in NZ, but the lack of human emotion can be painful at times. In NZ, people are less fake, meaning that you can usually tell straight away how they are feeling, whether they really want to be in their position, or whether they're just passing the motions. […]