The first guy approached me while I was standing outside of a train station in Colombo, staring at the wood-and-paint schedule board full of clock faces the attendants adjusted by hand. Continue reading
Yesterday, we looked at the history of middle-school lunches in Japan. For some reason, we’re doing it again today; only this time with a focus on what lunch is like in the modern day.
Eating lunch at a Junior High School in America was my first confrontation with the absurdity of my situation as a student.
It should have been a yes or no question. Continue reading
The whaling controversy ignites more bad press and international disagreement than almost any contemporary political issue in Japan. If it sometimes seems like Japan is staking far too much on an industry that no one wants for a food nobody eats, that may be less to do with an irrational hatred for enormous aquatic mammals and more about resentment over how the ban was implemented: Whatever your stance on whaling, it’s easy to why Japan feels kind of swindled. Continue reading
If you really want to express your feelings, it helps to carry a one-ton shrine around the city at 5 in the morning while having cold water poured on your back. Continue reading
This Japanese Life. 