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 taking a break from talking about my upcoming novel, Sand, Sea and Stone, and its indiegogo campaign to relate a tale of living in Japan. Enjoy. Yesterday was one of those days that all of us immigrants have to face over from time to time. A nice little visit to the immigration center to … More Immigration Center
Another episode from the show I co-host concerning modern Japanese culture! iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/y84jomwz Wordpress: http://tinyurl.com/y8poc92f Finally, after almost 6 months (more or less) we get back to our original format, commenting on three different news that caught our eyes. First, we talk a little bit about the Onsen Theme Park in the city of Beppu, … More Living Japan Ep. 74
We spend another episode going over myths that keep popping up about Japan. This time we focus a lot on the “sexless Japanese” narrative. Check it out! iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/podcast/living-japan/id822107478… WordPress: https://livingjapanpodcast.wordpress.com/ Hello everyone! It’s already been two weeks from our last Episode and we are back! On Episode 73 the Living Japan crew talks about … More Living Japan Ep. 73
For the fourth summer in a row, I will be spending much of my time this year working at a summer camp in the mountains of Japan. All in all it will be over a month spent at camp, pretty much on a five days on, three days off schedule. Some of the things I … More Off to Camp
Health care is on my mind. Yes, due to everything happening in America. I want to share my experiences with something that I often hear described as universal healthcare. This post is going give you my personal story. It is not going to be an in depth statistical or cost/benefit analysis of this system. I … More A Few Words on Japan’s Health Insurance
Woohoo! The latest episode of the Japan-centric podcast I co-host has its latest episode up! As co-host Edgar puts it: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/podcast/living-japan/id822107478… Wordpress: https://livingjapanpodcast.wordpress.com/ Brent opened this week’s conversation by asking Motoi and Edgar about their thought’s on the recent arrival of Carl’s Jr. to Japan, specially because their presentation is very different to the … More Living Japan Ep 71
Part 2 of a 2 part series. The first can be read here. 5) School Uniforms Yep, school uniforms are a part of daily life here in Japan. It seems a lot of public Elementary schools (ES) don’t have uniforms and many private ones do. Of course, there are exceptions on either side. For Junior … More Responding to 8 School Rules in Japan (part 2)
Oh no! This episode went out much earlier this week, but I haven’t posted it here! What a disservice! I really think this is a great episode to see what it is we do at Living Japan. The three of us left our studio feeling that this was a good show. Not to say that … More Living Japan Episode 67
Deadly Troubadour 