January 2018: Welcome, visitors from Australia, Singapore, China, Thailand, Hong Kong and beyond! I started this blog in 2015 when I moved to Japan, and my audience is primarily family and friends who know me IRL. Yet clearly this one post about Jimbocho has filled a void for information in English. While most of my …
Month: November 2015
Happy [Thursday] from Japan!
Before arriving in Japan we knew that--obviously--American holidays would not be recognized by the kids' international school calendar. Somehow none of us really made the next leap to realize that this means that the kids actually go to school on Thanksgiving. Because here it's just, you know, Thursday. Most Americans in Japan work for Japanese …
Veterans Day Thoughts from Japan
Roughly a million years ago, I was in the Navy. On my first tour I was a Surface Warfare Officer, ship's company, Left Standard Rudder Steady Course 1-8-0 type of sailor. The kind that never sleeps, basically. My second tour was a lot more fun. I was assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5, the Navy's …
Edo Wonderland. Or, When Colonial Williamsburg meets Renn Fest. In Japan.
Last weekend Mark, Cy, and I headed out to Edo Wonderland, a historical theme park about two hours from Tokyo. The park strives to educate its visitors about the Edo period through activities and displays that both educate and entertain--and sometimes at the same time! Edo Wonderland reminded me of a cross between the earnest historical …
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