Tsubu Gai

My time in Japan is just about up. A quick reunion with JSPS/NSF students tomorrow, then a flight home the next day. Living in Japan this su...

The other night right after dinner I was fresh out of reading material. Any reading material, in English anyway. I was desperate to read som...

Today is one of the days of the Japanese Buddist holiday of Bon , or Obon. In Japanese, an "o" is often added as a prefix to the n...

Japanese food, in character and diversity, could constitute a blog all by itself. For this reason I will only superficially deal with it as ...

Though Japan is considered by many Westerners as a mostly secular society, about 86% of Japanese people consider themselves followers of Shi...