Sophie Knight

@Kishakishi

Now in Amsterdam after 7yrs in Tokyo. Anthropology graduate, aspiring dancer, dedicated advocate of British humour.

Tokyo
Joined March 2011
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  1. Jan 12

    Finally: Flux for the iPhone. Well, not quite, but Apple's own version of the blue-light-less screen at night:

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  2. Jan 8

    Oh, and SoftBank charge a flat fee of ¥10,000 just to cancel your contract, even though I had paid off my iPhone and was customer for 7yrs.

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  3. Jan 8

    If anyone managed to successfully use a Japanese iPhone in Europe with a local SIM, would like to hear how...

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  4. Jan 8

    Kept my Japanese iPhone pristine for over two years and paid over the odds for a contract. Now it's useless in Europe thanks to SoftBank.

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  5. Jan 4

    Remember that drunk DIY fireworks extravaganza on NYE I mentioned in the Netherlands? 12 people lost an eye... !

  6. 31 Dec 2015

    Amsterdam celebrates New Years Eve with the biggest fucking DIY fireworks show you've ever seen, performed by drunk people with lighters.

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  7. 31 Dec 2015

    An ode to Japan's floor-culture and sleeping on the floor:

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  8. 18 Dec 2015

    #6 #5 have transformed into socially acceptable beings—they can’t be valued professionally in their own right.

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  9. 18 Dec 2015

    #5 Of course, in Japan you aren’t considered a whole person unless you’re married. Forcing women to change their names advertises that they

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  10. 18 Dec 2015

    #4 It would be amusing if it wasn’t tragic how Japan shoots itself in the foot by contradicting its "furthering women in society" campaign.

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  11. 18 Dec 2015

    #3 ... your family is going to hell in a handcart and the less those foreigners appear Japanese, the better.

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  12. 18 Dec 2015

    #2 ...husband were allowed to keep our maiden names. Then I realised that in the eyes of Japanese law marrying a foreigner already means...

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  13. 18 Dec 2015

    #1 Upon hearing Japan’s Supreme Court had ruled married couples must have the same surname, I felt momentarily lucky that I and my Japanese

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  14. 17 Dec 2015

    To clarify last tweet - I *like* minimal packaging and am glad to be rid of the enormous amounts of plastic waste I generated in Japan.

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  15. 17 Dec 2015

    Having moved from Japan, it's still a shock to open food/gum/coffee filters and find the contents *not* individually wrapped.

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  16. 26 Nov 2015

    Tokyo: any bilinguals willing to help out an English reporter for a car show in Dec? Send me a DM. I did it last year and it was a blast.

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  17. 23 Nov 2015

    Turns out once you tear a ligament it doesn't grow back. Well, shucks. At least I have an excuse for fainting.

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  19. 23 Nov 2015

    Things the Netherlands does better than Japan: use of public space, banter with strangers, lack of judgment of utterly scruffy people (me).

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  20. 23 Nov 2015

    Things Japan does better than the Netherlands: weather, peelable stickers, courier delivery, and, of course, toilets everywhere.

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