Obviously an ongoing concern for many people in Japan, both in the environment and in the food chain, is that of radiation levels. To be […] Read More
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I don’t usually stray into the world of politics on this blog, it’s [hopefully] meant to be informative and constructive, rather than a critique of […] Read More
Last month, the family once more hit the road to go up to Shiga in Nagano Prefecture to get a few days skiing and snowboarding […] Read More
So we just finished celebrating ‘setsubun (節分)’, which is traditionally the day before the first day of a new season, mainly, in modern times, before […] Read More
This morning, for the first time in a while, I was woken by a quake, with the house shaking. The kind of shaking where you […] Read More
I was doing a periodic clean out of Evernote (which is a generally fantastic app) when I found my notes from April 2011 which I […] Read More
Happy New Year 2012 For a bit of a change this year, I took my motorbike down to Enoshima Beach to watch the first sunrise […] Read More
Last Sunday – December 11th – I joined in the third annual Tokyo Toy Run 2011 version, where a group of bikers meet up in […] Read More
Just a rather late note that the Tokyo Toy Run 2011 will be on December 11th – that’s next Sunday – so grab your motorbike, […] Read More
Every now and then you just want to get away and relax for a while. It’s easy to see ‘getting away’ in Japan as more […] Read More