wanichan's English blog

Just blogging in English from Osaka, Japan. Technology, Diary and Life Style.

Do you want to get on Hello Kitty Bullet Train?

Hello Kitty Shinkansen, which operates between Shin Osaka and Hakata, debuted on June 30. It seems like people in the world are really excited about it. www.thejakartapost.com www.usatoday.com Car 1: HELLO! PLAZA The car No. 1 is a special…

Problems of Osaka Monday's earthquake

As I said the last post, I am not the victim but I am really sorry for those who were killed by walls. Osaka school was warned three years ago about wall that crushed girl to death in earthquake | The Japan Times Osaka police is now under …

North Osaka Earthquake this morning - M6.1

Osaka earthquake happened at 7:58 am, but I live in the south of Osaka city so I am okay. I live on the top floor (6 stories) so some stuff fell down to the floor at that time, but nothing was broken. www.theguardian.com Electric bulletin …

Do you think I should watch out for GDPR?

You know, I am Japanese, and most of my websites users are Japanese. But, I have this English blog and English website at wanichan.jp. What is GDPR in the first place? General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia Google Cookie Choices I …

How to kill time while you are in the hospital?

I mentioned about my dad in the hospital, but I got an unfortunate news. He got CT scan yesterday and they found some spine damage by bacteria. If there were no problems he could have been discharged from the hospital next Monday. He has b…

Lack of accommodations

Nowadays there are so many Chinese and Korean tourists in Osaka. Japanese government invites a lot of foreign tourist in order to get more money, but there are very limited hotels or lodgings. Airbnb removes 80% of Japan home-share listing…

Do you think I have to look at EU User Consent Policy?

Every time I check out my AdSense dashboard, I see the notice like this. To support publishers in complying with Google's updated EU User Consent Policy, EU user consent settings are now available. Actually I am Japanese and 98.5% of my we…