My father had a unique approach to business. He wasn’t a salesman, at least not in the traditional sense of…

    Fall is in full swing in Japan. Finally we have been released from the insufferable temperatures and now…

    The temperature has started dropping and the autumn season is fast approaching. This means swapping out clothes, pulling…

  Perhaps Miyagi’s most well-known denizen is the daimyo that founded Sendai, Date Masamune. His likeness can be observed in…

A Different Point of View The human is imbecilic. The human is dangerous. The human is beyond our help. Oh…

  The annual Shikoku rafting trip has, over the past few years, become a permanent fixture in the Hyogo AJET…

With the (recent?) closure of Osaka’s Sailor Moon themed cafe, Cafe Talisman, I’ve needed to look elsewhere to get my…

“I Like Basketball and Tomatoes. See You!”   I was an ALT in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan (Lansing’s sister…

  Recently, when I was visiting my godson, he was amazed by my daring, revolutionary and transgressive method of writing…