In a few minutes my family is going to sit down to dinner. This will be our last dinner together for a while. It is 7:13 and my son is already asleep. I don’t know if he will wake up tonight or sleep through until morning. My wife and I have spent a good part … More The Last Night
I’m getting ready for bed. Tomorrow is the last full day we have in America before flying back to Japan. Obviously it brings out some complicated feelings. There is some desire to get back to our normal rhythms and sights. For me, it is much easier to actually move around and exercise in Tokyo. I’m … More Backyard
I sit down to write this and realize that where I live it is already 2017. Currently I am visiting my parents and the world is still a year behind. Around my home New Years means lots of watching football and in between singing songs and walking around the neighborhood I’ve managed to introduce my … More The First Yet Again
The latest episode of Living Japan is out. Here is the blurb: On Episode 63 Dr. Michael Dziesinski, a visiting scholar from the University of Hawaii, joins us to talk about a social phenomenon of Japan: Hikikomori. Today, they are many different portrayals of Hikikomori on mass media and popular culture, but… are they really … More Living Japan episode 63
The latest episode of Living Japan is out! Listen to the very end for a special musical performance by us, the Living Japan crew! Of course to hear the show you either need to go and subscribe through iTunes or stream from the Living Japan website.
Feel ever so slightly like an accidental jerk. I need to buy apples for work so I stop off at a nearby 7/11. It’s one of those slightly fancy ones that sell fruit. They have two baskets of red apples. Fuji apples for 150 yen and a type I’m unfamiliar with for 100 yen. Their … More Adventures in Apple Buying
The latest episode of Living Japan. We have an enjoyable chat and pend a little bit of time talking about the recent publicized cases of discrimination here in Japan. Subscribe and download from iTunes.
The sixtieth episode of Living Japan is now available on iTunes. Every two weeks I co-host this podcast focusing on modern Japanese culture. In this episode we talk about the cross over between the Olympics and Cool Japan, the alleged mysteries of Japanese Women and more on LGBT acceptance in Japan.
Roughly every two weeks I could-host a show called Living Japan. We talk about, well, life in Japan. We’re a multicultural, multinational trio that sometimes agrees and sometimes disagrees about a variety of Japan based topics. This episode we talk about Pokémon Go, the changing of the Tsukiji fish market site, and elections on Japan. … More Living Japan Episode 59
My little guy is getting so big. Already one of his favorite activities is just to walk around. He’s got these little wobbly legs that he just can’t wait to use. Before dinner the three of us, me, the munchkin and the Mrs. took a loop around the block. What we thought would be a … More Walk and Talk (1)
Deadly Troubadour 