George co-authored the Japanese From Zero! book series and designed the interface for the online lessons. George lived in Japan for 9 years and now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada where he teaches Japanese at Japanese Classes by TTI and interprets Japanese for many large corporations on a sub-contractor basis.

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Japanese Currency: Bill denominations Japanese paper money comes in 1, 5 and 10 thousand yen bills. There is also a 5 hundred yen bill, but is no longer being produced and has been replaced with a 500 yen coin. Unique features Each bill is sized differently.

I wrote the Japanese text book series, “Japanese From Zero!” with my Japanese wife of over 18 years, Yukari. Here name is not actually “Yukari Takenaka” anymore but that sells more books so I never put “Yukari Trombley” on the front cover. I am fluent in Japanese. I lived in Japan for 9 years from age 12 to 21. I was not

Japanese Baths: The same water! Japanese baths are totally different than American baths. Japanese take a bath every night before they sleep. The shower and bathtub of the majority of Japanese bathrooms (probably 99%) are in the same room but are separated. The shower is on the outside of the bathtub.

Japanese Toilets: Which way is front? The Japanese style toilet will probably be your biggest challenge while in Japan. Due to cost effectiveness of this style of toilet, they are common in department stores and many restaraunts. Many foreigners are baffled as to which way to face when squatting to do what they came to do.

The 500 yen coin is the same size and almost the same weight as the Korean 500 won. Then by drilling holes into the 500 won coin Japanese vending machines were able to be tricked into thinking the coin was an actual 500 yen coin.

Japanese Culture: A Closer Look On this site we will introduce a few unique traditions of Japan and hopefully answer any questions you might have about Japanese Culture. It is also important for us here at YesJapan.com to demystify Japan.