


New Year’s Resolutions 2022
I wrote my new year’s resolutions up last year just to give me something to write about when I was starting up this site with no idea whether I would […]

English Menu?
Having lived in Japan for 9 years, one would be forgiven in believing that I must be a native Japanese-speaker by now, surely. (I can’t count the number of times people ask […]

Yoro – You Only Ribu Once
The other day I was finally able to take a day out of my schedule to go for a good long walk. It turned out to be a much longer […]

Did You Eat Yet?
Language is a very important part of any culture, whether on an international level or simply with the minutiae of dialect differences between one village and the next. It is […]

Nagoya City – It’s Not That Boring
Nagoya has been described on more than one occasion as the most boring city in Japan. So boring in fact, that The Japan Times reported on it back in 2016 […]

Always Believe in Gold! …en Week
Thank you for coming. It’s only two years ago that I experienced my last ‘normal’ Golden Week (GW), and it looks like this year is no exception due to various […]