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Gaijin Mommy
@gaijinmommy.bsky.social
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Permanent resident of Japan. Neuro-affirming parent. 日本語 N1. All the Japan photography. That lady obsessed with Tokyo Skytree. Train otaku by proxy. Sober 18 years. Survivor. Shitamachi supremacist.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hi! I am moving some of my favorite memes about Japan that I’ve made over the years across the abyss to a pinned post over here, so that we all may have a happy, new life together. Depending on how well you know me, this 🧵 will either be my informal self-introduction, or a blast from the past.
A joke map of Tokyo’s Yamanote line, with all the station names “liberally” translated into English.
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Really great study on the rather troubling online discourse around Japanese language learning in certain portions of the web, focused on "techno-solutionism", consumption, and native bias just got published by a good buddy of mine. Open access too! Check it out @ academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Bonenkai Not Optional
Write a horror story using only 3 Words
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Just put on my older son’s sound blocking headphones to cope with helping my younger son find a shirt to wear that doesn’t “touch him” (he is very vocal about this) and wow these headphones don’t work very well at all we may need to replace them 😅
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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だっこされてる
Waning moon looks like she is being held up by the bare branches of the cherry trees along Sumida River, and maybe she is.
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I mean yeah I’d wear this but the back would have to say 頑張らなくていいよ　imo…
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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fall is like this
Skytree surrounded by autumn foliage reflected in a pond.
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Fall in line(s!)
Yellow ginkgo leaves gather in the crevices of a shrine roof, arranging themselves into perfectly parallel diagonal lines. Dark red Momiji hang above to witness the ginkgo’s spectacle with a healthy mix of judgment and admiration.
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Me (half asleep): So there was some sort of earthquake last night?

Husband: 6+ in Aomori. It shook all the apples off the trees.

Me: You are a horrible person.

Husband: …

Me: Coffee.
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Temporarily breaking my no-screenshots
-from-the-bad-place rule for this!
Text: If you are in Japan, in a hotel and want to know what's going on with earthquake and tsunami - switch on channel 1 (NHK) and try to find thebutton saying 音声 or 音声切替 to listen to simultaneous English interpretation. Image shows the button on a remote.
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Fall in slow motion.
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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I’m seeing a lot of gorgeous ginkgo trees from shrines in Kyoto on my feed right now and I can’t help thinking that the Sensoji ginkgo would totally look like them too if not for that time firebombs were dropped directly on their heads but guess what Kyoto you’ll never do this.
Sun shining directly through a charred hole in a war-damaged ginkgo tree at Sensoji shrine.
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Last night’s Japanorama
Thin orange line stretching across Tokyo skyline, turning greenish and then a deep blue as you pan up. The lights in the windows let you know that the buildings are there. Teeny tiny Tokyo tower on the far left, some Nihonbashi area skyscrapers, then Mt. Fuji on the right, whose beauty I shall never tire of.
December 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I did this volunteer activity for kids today which I’ve been preparing 4 all week and I always go all out cuz it’s the only thing I do for humanity all year long and there were these badass 高校生 girls there too who were scrolling their phones all through the magic show and I was worried they’d be too
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A real thing that happened
Sunflowers in December, idyllic little houses with an amazing view, and a big ass stratovolcano with unreal symmetry with some snow on the peak that you can sort of see if you look but also can’t really because the orange light is fading now.
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Fall Underwater
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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The world according to a half-charred and hollowed out survivor of the Tokyo firebombings that is actually the most compelling site at Sensoji but no one pays any notice because it has been relegated to the smoking area seeing as humans are inherent dicks. Pretty though.
Shot of the 5 story pagoda at Sensoji from the hollow center of a very large and very war damaged ginkgo tree. Another yellow ginkgo beside the pagoda, probably damaged too. A dozen or so here are. It’s easy to see if you stop to look.
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Everything: still better with ninjas.
Child and ninja friend staring off the side of Kototoi bridge at twilight towards a train crossing the river that is too far away for us to see but trust them it’s there.
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Photos from today's wonderful tour of lesser-known Asakusa sites with @gaijinmommy.bsky.social , who also taught me how to use the time lapse function on my phone.
Image shows a maple tree full of red leaves next to a stone lantern and a pond. Image shows a bridge crossing a pond flanked by maple trees full of red leaves. Image shows a stone lantern and a maple tree full of red leaves reflected in a pond. Image shows a stone torii with maple trees and skyscrapers in the distance.
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Fall in a Japanese garden. Now!
Sun shining through Momiji at Sumida park this morning near a stone lantern. River reflecting the whole spectacle, making it into a bigger deal than it is. No actually it is already a pretty big deal.
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Finally, the bingo board we need.
A multicolored bingo board titled "Paula's Karmic Flight Chaos Bingo" full of all the terrible things that may or may not happen to you on a flight but will definitely happen to me. From delays to threats of violence against other passengers, my karma has got you covered.
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Fall on the Moon
Bare branches and leaves about to fall covering last night’s cold moon. It was indeed quite cold out there.
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Hey Tokyo…
Unedited photograph of what happens when you try to capture a photograph of a full moon and a nearly bare tree branch at the same time. So now we know that.
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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night fall
Red Momiji watching over a city at nightfall from above. Leaves in focus, bokeh lights, colorless sky about to get much darker.
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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A little old man just passed me chanting “Sayuri, Sayuri” to the slow rhythm of his cane clicking on the pavement and I asked if Sayuri may have gone to Arakawa cuz I could look there but he didn’t know & now I am broken everyone get out and find his dog right now especially you @katch.bsky.social
Lost dog photo. Sayuri is missing from Higashi Mukojima in Sumida Ward.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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deconstruction
Clouds erase the top of the Tokyo Skytree this morning and a large crane on the Sumida river conspires with a camera angle to make it all look like time is moving backwards and a tower is being unbuilt. A seagull flies by to check out what’s up.
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM