Alan Booth moved to Japan in his twenties and lived here for more than half his life,...
Day: 1 December 2012
Because of the background noise, which necessitates turning the volume up in one’s headphones to potentially damaging...
Tatémaé (建前), also known as jotoshiki (上棟式) or munéagé (棟上), and not to be confused with the more...
When you tell Japanese people that a British wedding can go on all day, or that an...
One thing I never got round to doing before I confessed to Mrs Muzuhashi that I’d be...
Hunt for video game loser who left home Police last night stepped up a hunt for Mr...
From an unspecified newspaper on an unspecified date – probably more than a decade ago – and...
A great deal is made of first lines, first pages, first chapters – first novels and first...
