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Did you know that for more than 54 years the Japanese Government through its Ministry of Education (Monbusho) has been sponsoring foreign students, including Filipinos, to study in Japan?  Hundreds of Filipinos, including this author, have been sent to Japan for the past several years to study under the following six different scholarship programs.

You don't have to completely convert your English system into Japanese if you only need to occasionally .  Just like Windows OS, Ubuntu has input method components that allow you to enter , , and characters into your applications. To install these components, just follow these steps.

Yes, we have left Tokyo for good! I mean , not the city. The company I work for has moved its main offices located near the Tokyo station to a new location west of the Imperial palace.

Now is the time to go out for a hanami if you still want to catch those Sakura or Cherry blossoms. For a real visual treat, we recommend going to large parks like , , and . Inokashira Park is highly recommended because it has a large lake where you can ride a boat while enjoying the view of the surrounding Maple and Sakura trees. Cerg and I went there last year. This year, we just went to a small nearby park, the .

This morning, we were able to watch the initial telecast of the TV show " ".  The show, which airs over every Saturday at 9:55 AM, introduces items that are, guess what? Useful! Cerg and I were amazed at the simple and yet convenient and very useful products that were presented in today’s episode.

Net 25, a popular information-oriented television channel in the Philippines, is now available in Japan through ACCESS TV - a direct-to-home broadcast service provided by IPS.  The signing of Memorandum of Agreement between Net 25 and IPS was held in Tokyo last March 23, 2010.