Depending on how you look at it, Enoshima (江ノ島）is either a very small island or a large rock outcrop, a few hundred metres away from […] Read More
Category: japan
It’s been 15 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake, and almost exactly a year since I was last in Iwate prefecture, where we were […] Read More
I’ll admit that this post is two weeks late. What can I say, I’ve been busy. In my world, ‘busy’ isn’t just the day job, […] Read More
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
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