For any travelers out there (of which I suspect there will be many this month), layovers are often…

    Winter is near/here and you’re already running behind if you haven’t pulled out your nabe pot. A favorite…

  A friend recently told me that I was “so like Byron.” I tried to puzzle out what she meant:…

    The Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 has widely been regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in Japan’s…

    Hello everyone, I am Justin Parker Pool I, another in a long line of Shiga JETs gracing the…

  Adelaide stepped off the bus and into the rain. It barely registered to him, the water lashing against his…

An Instructional Guide on Dragging People Around Japan   It may not happen for everyone, but eventually you may receive…

Season’s Greetings JETs! (Whoa it feels odd to say that) I saw the Christmas trees go up in my local…

The down jackets are out, fingers are frozen, and stores have been decorated for the holidays for too long already.…