[This is the first of hopefully many ‘word of the day’ posts, in an effort to help me with my appalling Japanese, especially for business […] Read More
Category: japan
I used to have a mantra: never travel outside Tokyo during Golden Week [GW]. There’s a reason for this. Everyone travels to ‘tourist’ spots during […] Read More
One thing Japan is blessed with is an insane amount of national holidays, which is great really. Currently, we’re part way through ‘Golden Week’ [GW], […] Read More
Just an addendum that yesterday morning, the strongest quake to hit Tokyo for a while struck at 7:22am (news here). At 6.1, just off the […] Read More
Anyone who has looked at the Flickr pictures I just mentioned, may have noticed that the ‘camera’ used to take the more recent ones is […] Read More
I saw the below picture last week, and thought perhaps it was part of Tokyo and Japan’s drive to get more tourists to Tokyo, maybe […] Read More
There’s been a huge business story here in Japan for the last month or so to do with a company called Livedoor. It’s an ISP, […] Read More
As I mentioned before, this was the second trip to Niseko this year, and as usual, the 3 sides of the mountain all proved to […] Read More
There’s been a lack of updates here, so sorry for that. it’s been a busy week all told, but let’s just recap those four days […] Read More
We’re here in Niseko where the weather today is ‘character building’. This photo was taken when we got halfway down and could actually see further […] Read More