清水寺（播州） If you haven’t been to your first temple of the new year yet, consider giving Kiyomizudera a try! And…

Three months into my Japanese sojourn, a family connection led to my boarding a bus to Sakaide in Shikoku to…

Part of the reason I decided to start writing for the Times was to hold myself accountable for my beliefs.…

The Kobe Prefectural Museum of Art is a modern and contemporary art museum located in the heart of Kobe just…

This is a simple Japanese soup which is served at New Year’s celebrations. Ingredients (serves 4) one pack of kamaboko…

MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Happy New Year,　明けましておめでとうございますand so on and so forth. Welcome to the first Hyogo Times of 2013.…

上がったり下がったりする野菜って何でしょう？ (あがったりさがったりするやさいってなんでしょう？)

I was going to write a nice entry about the snakes found in and around Japan given we’ve just entered…