?????#206Kyoto city bus #206 runs from Kitaoji Bus Terminal (Subway Kitaoji Station) to Kyoto Station and then back to Karasuma Kitaoji and Kita ...
Thick chewy noodles served in soy sauce based dashi broth, this simple Udon Noodle Soup is called Kake Udon in Tokyo and Su Udon in Osaka. READ: Udon ...
Early spring is the best time to be in Tokyo — you can take advantage of all the events and festivals dedicated to spring flowers, among other ...
Hi everybody. It’s been a real long time. Sorry about that. I’m back with some good news, assuming you liked reading things that I� ...
Last week, Ayaka Shiomura, a 35-year-old lawmaker in Tokyo, was raising questions about the role of working mothers in Japan when someone started jeer ...
One of the most useful discoveries of a recent trip to Italy was that I had remembered some Italian curse words overheard during my childhood at my gr ...
I haven’t written in over a year, but I wanted to share my photographs from the month I spent in Kathmandu. It was my liminal phase between Jap ...
The airplane is parked at the far end of a runway, the airport clear outside the portal, the name of my city, Fukuoka, in clear red letters. The mount ...
Words are social creatures, with every word defined by other words, and dictionaries are a party. Interactions define things: words can?t write thems ...
In my previous post (part 1) I discussed the history of sexual harassment law in Japan, and the struggles women continue to face today. But in truth ...
If nobody in Japan thinks a racist video about the Japanese is racist, can anyone be offended" The children’s novelty act known as ‘Avril ...
I live on Tabard Street in London, one of the original streets leading into the city proper, a site where pilgrims gathered before departing the city ...
It’s been about a year since I left Japan, and I know many friends and readers (those in the JET Program) are coming up on saying goodbye to a ...
 I have been overwhelmed by the support from readers of my posts, On Sexual Harassment in Japan (Part 1) and (Part 2). I’m also stunned at ...
