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Posted on July 26, 2011 2 Comments
Exactly one year ago, I arrived in Japan to begin my tenure with the JET Programme as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Namerikawa, Japan. My plan was to stay a year, save some money, see another side of the world and then come back to start my life in Chicago. Things moved so fast, and I […]
Posted on July 21, 2011 4 Comments
The news is a very fickle thing. As an old journalism adage goes, “If it bleeds, it leads.” I understand this. The news is constantly changing. Journalists are attempting to accurately record history as it unravels. It simply isn’t possible to cover every story out there. What bothers me, however, is that once a certain time […]
Posted on July 17, 2011 4 Comments
(Namerikawa train station) My initial train story was about a Japanese man from Chiba visiting Toyama just after the earthquake and tsunami in March. On Monday, I had another interesting train encounter, though this time with an American man in Toyama for the summer. It is not often you see a foreigner in Toyama […]
Sheila Burt 