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 ...
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 ...
Shane at The Nihon Sun put a call out to those of us living in Japan to post a picture of the view from our windows and so I thought I'd use this gentle, almost-tagging to ease back into blogging after the break I have taken recently. I have been assessing the role that ...
As the hostess of this month's Matsuri, I posed the question: What has Japan taught you about yourself or your home country? A few brave souls took on the challenge, dug deep and provided us with the posts outlined below. If you submitted your post via the blog widget and did not also put a ...
The subject of learning Japanese while one is living here can get a little heated. There are those who don't want to learn the language at all, for various reasons and there are those ...
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 ...
As with any house move the greatest stress, I find, comes with the juggling act that is needing to leave packing to the last minute because, frankly, you are using your stuff to live! When moving overseas, particularly for a finite amount of time based on a project or some such, there is (more often ...
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!
