The Great Passage by Shion Miura is a lovely book and you must read it. If you like Japan and books –…
The cars on the expressway look like toys and the only things above you are the planes taking off from Haneda, an…
It was on the Malaysia-Thailand border that it really hit home, the advantage of that burgundy-covered book that an accident of birth…
Finding myself with time to spare and a copy of The Little Prince at hand, resting on the shelf more for decoration…
As if we needed any additional incentive to travel to Spain, now that winter has definitely arrived in the northern climes, the…
Breasts. Some of us have them. Do you have them? How often do you think about them? (You may answer this…
The UK’s Daily Mail attempted to bring a little light relief on Christmas Eve, via the subject of Japanese dining choices: Long-time…
I don’t often post funny signs from Japan, as it seems a bit cheeky when I speak about 20 words of the…
Ever since I arrived in Japan I have held a – some would say irrational – prejudice against Roppongi. Admittedly based on…
Seems I wasn’t the only one who heard the call of the anti-nuclear power plant protestors outside the Japanese Prime Minister’s…