Posts categorized under ‘Japan’

The rainy season has been in full effect for what seems like forever, bringing with it lots of overcast skies. Since moving from 岐阜県 to 千葉県 it seems that every glance at the sky revealed either light gray clouds, or dark clouds and rain. Today, however, another color greeted the busy people of Tokyo …

With less than a month before I move closer to Japan’s ultra-busy capital, I thought it’d be fun to post two pictures I snapped while the Mrs. and I were enjoying one of our “7時前の散歩” (Before 7am Walks).

I managed to find a picture of what Nagoya looked like 53 years ago. A lot has changed since then.

Here are five more reasons why I wouldn’t want to live in Japan’s capital city, Tokyo. While some of them might seem a little far-fetched, the number one reason is the honest answer why I couldn’t make the move.

Last week’s stampede in Harajuku received a lot of attention in Japan and online, but it also served as a reminder of why I wouldn’t want to live in such a big city; Tokyo or otherwise.

My father-in-law and I passed by this place the other day, and the name took me a little by surprise. While the spelling is a little different, I can’t help but wonder why anyone would want to go to a 2円 strip club with a name morbidly similar to “die”.

A few days ago, Kenji asked me a question that caught me a little off guard: Why don’t I write posts about Japan, anymore?

Japanese web pages are quite a bit different from their English-language equivalents.  While the English sites tend to have become more flashy with lots of white space, Japanese sites tend to cram as much as possible into as small a
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An odd thing happened on Friday: my “Get out of English Free” card didn’t work. Friday evening, while I was making the trek from 本山駅 to 名古屋駅, I was stuck on the subway with a bunch of over-active high school
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Yesterday the Mrs. and I decided to head out into the great outdoors to see some lovely autumn foliage.  The idea was one we had both been kicking around for a little while, and with both of us having Monday
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Most of Japan was hit by a pretty big typhoon yesterday, and it had several million people preparing for the worst.  That said, you wouldn’t know by looking at today’s sky. Thousands spent the night at evacuation centers, and the
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Do you ever wonder about your neighbours? I wrote a few months ago about how one of my neighbours has the same camouflaging skills as a chameleon or ninja, and now this.  It seems that someone who lives in the
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A few days ago I had mentioned that a client of mine has been considering a rather large career change and had asked me for some advice.  I was ill-equipped to act as his career counselor, so opted to ask
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