Meiji Restoration Ryoma Sakamoto: A Taste of Japan in Japan
Spend enough time in Japan and Sakamoto Ryoma finds you. He is on the poster in the history aisle of the bookshop, in the television…
Spend enough time in Japan and Sakamoto Ryoma finds you. He is on the poster in the history aisle of the bookshop, in the television…
If you have lived in Tokyo long enough, you have probably stood somewhere in the city and imagined its past. Picture a castle town, the…
Sooner or later, almost everyone who lives in Japan holds a ¥10,000 note and wonders about the face on it. You notice the serious expression…
Every long-term resident of Japan eventually asks the same question: how did this country change so fast? Somewhere between the bullet trains and the temple…
There is a particular afternoon in a Japanese summer when the cicadas sound louder than the traffic. Your shirt clings to your skin, and even…
The first real heat wave of a Japanese summer teaches you something no guidebook mentions. The air feels like a wet towel, and all you…