Baseball! We love baseball. Back in Washington DC that means cheering for the Nationals. In Yokohama, it's the DeNA BayStars. Mark's office organized a group outing for last weekend, so off we went. A short bus ride delivered us to Yokohama Stadium, where we joined 29,996 other fans to watch the BayStars take on the …
Month: September 2015
Time for a Kosutoko run!
That's Costco for you gaijin out there. Before we moved here I heard that there was Costco nearby, so I naturally assumed that it was located on the naval base and not out in town. Surely a country with apartments starting at 10 square meters (about 108 square feet) would not embrace mega-packs of 27 rolls of oversized …
The Doctor Will See You Now
When I arrived in early August, I spent my first week at an orientation class that the Navy requires for all new personnel. One of the speakers showed a dated but sobering movie about American sailors serving time in Yokosuka prison, with its forced labor, unheated cells with glass-less windows, and so on. The film producers …
Hōmu, Sweet Hōmu
We're in our house! We have been here almost two weeks now. Ask anyone to picture a Japanese house, and a few images come to mind, such as the traditional.... ....and the cramped. Our actual house is both larger and more mundane. Here it is! The house is named Takinoue House after our neighborhood, Takinoue. …
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