Author Archives: Joel

Some fun new news coming out of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Meet storm number 20. Little guy, goes by the name of Neoguri. He never got above category 2, and even now he’s pottering out, but he’s still bringing down … Continue reading →

Japan has an area less than half that of New South Wales, yet it’s divided into forty-seven prefectures, each of which is roughly equivalent in legislative power to the states of Australia, so far as I understand it. If you … Continue reading →

Be warned, this one’s a biggun. Just as Japan likes to borrow words from English, English likes to borrow words from Japanese. Well, English likes to borrow words from every language, but you get what I mean. Aside from obvious … Continue reading →

As I’d feared, I didn’t get back to the hotel tonight until 11pm. It’s too late to do anything besides go straight to bed, except that I at least need to stay up long enough for my first flat camera … Continue reading →

Oh boy, three days ago. Uh, where were we? When last we left our hero… On the subject of English words in Japanese, I quite like their word for putting your phones on silent – it’s called “manner mode” (i.e. … Continue reading →