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…
Every long-term resident of Japan remembers the winter they stopped fighting the cold and started planning around it. The kotatsu comes out, evenings grow shorter,…
Many people who move to Japan remember the first time they felt like outsiders. They also remember the moment they began to understand the local…