Monthly Archives: October 2019

Japan has many convenience stores – that’s part of what makes them so convenient. I discovered recently they they’ve actually got more dentists than convenience stores – in fact, almost twice as many, with 103,000 practicing dentists, but only 56,000 … Continue reading →

I survived Hagibis. Now where’s my t-shirt? Actually, there’s not even a huge amount of visible damage around here, aside from the rivers running pretty high, and dirty. There’s a band in the Philippines named Hagibis, who’ve been around since … Continue reading →

Yeah, ok. That’s not a place name or a word in kanji. But it was important to today’s events. I find that when I’m planning holidays, planned activities where timing causes stress create a kind of tunnel vision for me. … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to go back to my naming scheme from Volume II, just because – i.e. the out-of-context translation of the kanji in a place name relevant to the post. Though, this one’s not quite out of context – the … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned this before, but so far on my trips to Japan, I’ve been pretty lucky so far as weather goes. On our first trip back in 2010, we encountered a record-breaking heat wave, yes, but we only experienced two … Continue reading →