Posted on January 17, 2013 2 Comments
Per my blogging tradition, below is a collection of 12 photos representing my 2012. In general, it was a good year, but also a challenging and emotional one, where I said many goodbyes, changed jobs and moved to a different part of Japan. I wish everyone a very prosperous and healthy 2013. あけましておめでとうございます! JANUARY Toyama is […]
Posted on June 29, 2012 1 Comment
Osaka, the third largest city in Japan with a population of more than 17 million in the greater metropolitan area, has the reputation of being one of the rougher cities in Japan. Compared to Tokyo, where millions of businessmen and woman in ubiquitous black suits and shoes ride the trains like zombies in a trance, […]
Posted on June 1, 2012 4 Comments
“I am a rock. I am an island.” -Simon & Garfunkel Everything about him was blue — from the frame of his glasses to the sad, doe-eyed look in his eyes. When riding a local train recently from Naoetsu to Namerikawa — about a two-hour journey —a boy dressed in nearly all blue sat in the seat […]