It is the last show of the year for the Living Japan crew. You can stream the show here or subscribe and download through iTunes. Here is co-host Edgar’s write up: The Living Japan got together one last time before the end of the year to share some of the latest news that have been happening … More Living Japan 78
The latest episode of the Living Japan podcast has just been uploaded. You can stream it from that site or subscribe and download through iTunes. In this episode we talk about a school’s decision to not let a girl without black hair attend classes and other sorts of divisions present in modern Japan.
For a little over a week my parents were in the country. Normally an ocean separates us, but hey, its Christmas and we have a two year old which is enough of a reason for a visit. I’m trying hard to think deep thoughts about their visit. Something to put a little separation between myself … More The Quick Visit of my Parents
It’s the final episode! Will it redeem the other three? Or will it just be a weird hodgepodge of odd jokes, bad wigs, condescension, sexual moments with a toilet, and the possible madness of the wife? Read on and find out. Home Sweet Tokyo, Episode 04: Family Night Out writers: BJ Fox and Teruyuki Yoshida … More Grumpy Bird Reviews: Home Sweet Tokyo Ep 4 Family Night Out
If you are are reading this review you might also be interested in reading the reviews I did for the first and second episodes as well. If you look over those, please take note that I had some nice things to say about episode two. I’m trying to be fair. But this episode… This episode… Home Sweet … More Grumpy Bird Reviews: Home Sweet Tokyo Ep 3 Alice’s Lunchbox
When I wrote a review of the first episode of Home Sweet Tokyo little diid I suspect that it would go on to be my most viewed post this year. I already didn’t want to review the second episode based on the quality of the first and seeing the views of that post furthered my … More Grumpy Bird Reviews: Home Sweet Tokyo Ep 2 Naked Communication
The latest episode of the Living Japan podcast has just been uploaded. You can stream it from that site or subscribe and download through iTunes. This is a show that I co-host with two friends. It’s weird to think that we’ve been producing this show since 2014. It’s almost like a little time capsule. Anyway, … More Living Japan Ep 76
NHK World, one of the off shoot channels of Japan’s publicly funded NHK, has put out a new bilingual drama entitled Home Sweet Tokyo. NHK World is sort of meant to be the international version, or perhaps it is better to call it the foreign language version. It is a little hard to tell if … More Grumpy Bird Reviews: Home Sweet Tokyo
I’m starting a thing where every Friday I will do my best to write a short story based on a suggestion on my Facebook author page. Of course, I didn’t think about doing this until late Thursday night. But, as luck would have it as my wife and I were walking home with our son, he looked up at the … More Short Story Friday 1: Let’s Make a Moon
Several weeks ago I shared an account of heading over to the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau over in Shinagawa. As anyone who has gone through this particular dance it takes a minimum of two visits to renew a visa. The first is to drop off the paperwork and the second is, hopefully, to pick up … More Immigration Visit, Vol. 2
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