You can read part one of the Neurotic’s Travel Guide to Kyoto here.
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A Neurotic’s Travel Guide to Kyoto, Part 1
Kyoto is for lovers! Continue reading
Posted in Shinto, Shrines, Temples and Ruins, Thinking, Travel, Zen
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On Being Sick in Japan
Japan has two kinds of illnesses: colds, and the flu. The flu means you can take a day off of work. If you catch a cold, you are expected to do everything a healthy person does, but you’ll have to wear a ninja mask. Continue reading
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On Losing Your ID In Japan
The last time I’d seen it, it was 4:59 a.m. I stood in the streets in a robe watching 50 men haul a one-ton shrine through the city on sticks. I sleepwalked home with empty pockets. Continue reading
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On Autumn in Japan
Here, Autumn starts in August, rather than the September Equinox. It’s September now, but the temperatures still hover in the 80s, thunderstorms still threaten my daily sushi pickup, and cicadas still squawk through the trees like tortured squirrels. Continue reading
On Being a Total Creep in Japan
The creepiness of men in Japan (homegrown and imported) has become something of a standing joke. The male expats are creepy, and it’s a joke. Japanese men leer on the subway, and it’s a joke. Dance floors in Japan are jokes, because women will inevitably end up grinded on or groped by someone too sketchy to “read the air.”
The whole thing is a big joke, really, until it isn’t. Then, people stop laughing about it, because that would mean talking about it, and nobody wants to do that. You’d upset the wa. Continue reading
