Japan

Is sleeping in an elongated dog kennel worth it?

A walk though Tokyo ends up an experience of the Japanese take on life and death.

Bad timing for a weak bladder protest.

People instinctively focus our attention on the faces and other body parts of people around us. Why wouldn’t advertisers go there?

Eagle Dad and kids make it to 11,000 feet on Mt. Fuji and unfurl patriotic banners before needing to be rescued.

History is carried into the present as a wave of anti-Japanese sentiment has sweeps across China.

Japan has a reputation as an expensive country to eat in, but there are many ways to fill up on good food cheap. The cheapest option for eating in Japan is to buy bento boxes at the big supermarkets, especially right after 2PM and again after 6PM when they are discounted by up to 50%. [...]

On March 11, 2011 Japan trembled from the force of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. Fifty-foot tsunamis rocked the northeastern coasts and demolished everything in their path. Homes and automobiles were thrown about like toys, gas lines ruptured, forests and debris burst into flames, and nuclear power plants were pushed to the brink of meltdown.

What follows is the story of those harrowing days of crisis, told by Steven Mendoza, an English teacher from the United States, who lived through the worst natural disaster in Japan’s history, in a city that was claimed by the sea…

Kumamoto-san is an old school man. You will not find his personal website, even if he is one of the most coveted sushi chef in the country. You will also not find the home page of the Pension Bisezaki, the 3rd oldest pension in Japan, which he inherited from his father. Nevertheless, if you can [...]