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My general observations from living in Japan.
I’ve always found Japan to be far noisier than the U.K, and this is something that prompted me to write Noisy Japanese Apartments, in which I listed seven causes of neighborhood noise. So while I knew Japan suffered terrible noise pollution, I never realized there were laws against it. In fact, with politicians, food trucks and biker gangs running rampant, I assumed there weren’t. That’s why it came as a […]
Japan is prone to earthquakes and although most of them are small, they are quite common with announcements popping up on the TV screen alerting us to the most recent quakes. From time to time, a big one will come such as the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 or this year’s Noto earthquake. As frightening as these earthquakes were, neither compared to the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 which killed […]
When I lived in England, I was never particularly concerned with whether people around me were completely English, half English, or just a bit English. I mean, what did it matter? I myself am actually half Scottish, a quarter English and a quarter Italian, but nobody made a big deal of it. Before I rant about Japan’s obssession with geneology, here’s the concept of blood purity in the world of […]
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I’ve probably only been to Tokyo a dozen times in my 10+ years in Japan, but given the chance I’d love to go again. If I were a rapper, I’d put my baseball cap on backwards, wave my hands around and describe Tokyo like this: Here we go, to To-ki-yo, where’s the gents? It’s so immense, intense, can’t pay the rents. Feelin’ crowded, astounded, tradition surrounded by concrete towers, 24 […]
I said before that I had to wait outside the delivery room when Rikuto was born. The father in this commercial was lucky enough to be at his wife’s bedside when his son was born. However, he might not have been expecting this: Now, considering Rikuto is half English, I’m disappointed he didn’t offer to make me a cup of tea! If you can’t view the video, watch it here […]
I can’t iron. Well I can, but my shirts usually come out looking worse off than they were before I started. Hey, it’s not my fault, it’s the clothing manufacturers, right? If they can’t even make a no-wrinkle shirt… Unlike me, some men absolutely love ironing so much that they take this passion to extremes. So, extreme, it’s Extreme Ironing… the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an […]
Most of my students are elementary school kids, and I’ve recently noticed so many of them wearing the same kind of shoes, that I just had to take a picture. I can only assume that this is the latest craze sweeping the nation. I doubt they’ll take the world by storm like Pokemon did, but still I can’t imagine any kid wanting any other shoes. I mean, if they did, […]