We're in the US for our annual family visit until mid-August, so I'm taking the chance to catch up on some recent experiences in Japan that I didn't blog about at the time. First up: MariCAR go karts, that tourist and gaijin (foreigner) rite of passage. My friend Nina came for a visit in May, her second …

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Last week my friend Mani and I took our kids to the latest must-see in Tokyo, the MORI Building Digital Art Museum in Odaiba, Tokyo. It's the newest exhibition from teamLab, and a permanent installation. The museum fills 10,000 square meters (!), projecting trippy light shows onto mostly black surfaces while piping in a Cirque …

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