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Every country and every culture has its contradictions. Today as I prepare to return home for winter vacation, the two side of the Japanese life style are so glaring I feel the need to write about it. On … Continue reading
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Sports Day In various parts of Japan, School Sports Events (Undokai) are usually held in September. However change has come slowly to Japan’s Ministry of Education and in Chiba City some specially designated school celebrated this event on may 17th. … Continue reading
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I never said I liked kids. In fact, I often mention that I have a fear of kids. They say that you fear things that you cannot control and that is the main reason of why I am wary of … Continue reading
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Graduation Day There’s practice and then there is practice. No one does practice like Third year Junior High School students. Four weeks before the end of the school term, I noticed something odd was happening at the school and with … Continue reading
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Taiyo no sato (hometown of the sun) We laid down in shallow gravels wearing nothing but the thin cotton robes called yukata and they smiled as they buried us. With a medium sized shovels and sweat dripping off their faces … Continue reading
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Saturday as the Fahrenheit rose and the humidity blanket the concrete of Tokyo, I emerged from Ginza’s subway’s maze of underground corridors. People flowed to the left and to the right. Ginza Dori, one of the most traveled streets in … Continue reading
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School Lunch in Japan is for the students and served by the students. After it’s delivery from some mysterious school lunch facility that I have a sneaking suspicion is populated by sadistic workers who love to … Continue reading
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Night Bus to Bangkok Momma always said that the road to hell was paved with good intentions. Well, my intentions after landing in Singapore were to take a night bus to Bangkok. Why? Was it for: Adventure The experience of … Continue reading
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kamakura What do you say about a city that is only a stone’s throw away from one of the heaviest populated and modernized cities on earth, yet looks, smells, feels like it is a million miles and a hundred years … Continue reading
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It’s a small world after all Believe me the world got a lot smaller one Sunday morning at Tokyo DisneySea. My friend’s had flown up from the outer Southern reaches of Nagasaki to spend the weekend with Mickey and Co. … Continue reading