Into the Land of the Rising Sun

"Hey, did you hear that one of the lost tribes of Israel may be here in Japan?"asked LAL. I studied her closely, wondering if th...

Two students recently returned from 10 months living in the US have started stopping by the staff room to chat and practice their English. T...

Ask any Japanese student what their hobby is, and 9 times out of 10, the response will be "listen to music" (gerunds, it seems, ar...

Greetings from a water-logged Japan.  I'm sure there's an ark floating around here somewhere... We are smack in the middle of  tsuyu...

Cue the parade! Japan is now nuclear-power free, after having shut down every nuclear-based power plant in the country, as part of measures ...

Last week I walked into the granny circle to find that their chosen topic for the evening was toilets.   In the hour and a half that followe...

Billy Cosby wasn't fooling when he said, "Kids say the darndest things." However, he never tapped into a vast reservoir of hu...