Into the Land of the Rising Sun

One of my new years resolutions has been to make more of an effort to study Japanese, with mixed results. It turns out that Japanese is a t...

I'm sure that many a well-intentioned individual out there has felt vaguely racist shame when mistaking various Asian nationalities for...

A friend wrote me a while back, saying, "So there's really no central heating in Japan?  What about the robots?  This is the countr...

Goodbye, Year of the Rabbit.  Hello, Year of the Dragon! Assuming that the Maya were being a bunch of Debbie downers and the world does...

As I mentioned in my last post, my Christmas plans were fairly low-key.  Skyping with my family, eating delicious American foods that are h...

I blinked, and it was Christmas.  It turns that that when you aren't assaulted with Christmas decorations and commercials on October 21s...

This weekend, a friend took me to climb a nearby mountain called Katsuragi.  Because December 1st marks the end of the "season" fo...