Happy belated New Year everyone! Superman and I rarely make much of New Years Eve but since we were here in Japan we decided to join in the local tradition of heading to a shrine (that's shrine as in Shinto, not temple as in Buddhist) for the turning of the year. Atsuta Jinja is ...
Tony McNicol is a photojournalist based in Tokyo who has a great blog which covers his experiences both as a photographer and in Japan generally and, of course, always has great photos! ...
What does a good short-shorts-wearing, kawaii ("cute", well, cutesy might be closer) girl do in winter so as not to freeze her *%$ off? Of course! Why didn't I think of that? :)
One of my local Supermarkets is called Paré Marché and at the moment its walls are littered with posters wishing us "Merry Paré Marché!" Stores all over the city have similar posters and I'm not quite sure whether ...
Superman and I are off to Tokyo for a few days for a slightly over the top wedding anniversary (traditions must be kept and we have one that seems can only be done in ...
As some of you will already know, November's Japan Blog Matsuri will be hosted here at Narrative Disorder. Chris did a wonderful job stepping in at the last minute for October ...
One of the things I am really enjoying about living in Japan is re-discovering my love of and respect for the seasons, which had faltered somewhat due ...
This past Saturday we went for a drive with a couple of our American ICT friends to the open air museum Meiji Mura. "Meiji Village" is a park with over 60 original buildings from the Meiji era (1868 -1912) transported and restored so that ...
Opening the blinds today to take advantage of the bliss that is a day cool enough to open the windows, I was met with a lovely surprise! I had thought that the variegated grass plants in our tiny terrace garden were just for greenery but it turns out they are for lilac-ery too!
We were at Red Rock which is an “Aussie bar and Grill” in Sakae (which is no longer owned by an Aussie but by a lovely American who is a lecturer at the Universities here and a member of the writers group which I will join and post on when it resumes after August hols.) We were there for the Thursday night quiz, which I highly recommend along with the steak, and we could see that it was pouring down but since the bar is on the first floor we didn’t quite get the extent of it till we left – the streets were streaming!
