Partly because it was my first time under canvas for three years, and partly because it was...
Year: 2011
Even though I have been learning it for eight years, my Japanese is still rubbish. This is...
I had my morning carton of coffee, microwaved hotto cakey and fruit-cocktail-suspended-in-jelly on a bench overlooking the...
Last week I bought a new bicycle – a sort of road / mountain hybrid – for...
The hard-to-understand and hard-to-deal-with caretaker was back from his holidays, and had been collecting rubbish on the...
A couple of weeks after I moved to Ibaraki nearly six years ago (I stayed for just...
Some of you may not be aware that I once wrote a book about Japan, and that...
In keeping with the Japanese fondness for giving apartment blocks trendy, western-style names, our two-floor block of...
While there tends to be some kind of prior warning that a large-scale volcanic eruption is on...
In order to revise for – and sit – the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, I’ve had to...
