10 best things to impress people with when you go home

1. Being able to read people’s kanji tattoos (it might not be what they intended!)
2. T shirts with strange English messages on them
3. Useless hi tech stuff, e.g. a mobile phone that can interpret your dog
4. Being able to eat chicken wings with chopsticks
5. Marshall arts skills
6. Debunking at least 25 myths about the Japanese they might have (although sometimes it easier just to not even start on this one)
7. Serving products with weird names at your housewarming party- Colon chocolates (brown inside!), Pocari Sweat sports drink, Cow piss soda (well, Calpis actually, but sounds the same)
8. Reading weird manga in Japanese on the London underground
9. Writing people’s name in Kanji
10. Being able to live in a flat the size of a walk in closet without getting claustrophobic (useful with present London property prices)