I’m really glad that my students are always so kind. My student, Taeko actually made takoyaki for me! Takoyaki is a Japanese food that I really like eating, but haven’t made on my own. This time, unfortunately, I don’t have all of the minor details of what it takes to make takoyaki (namely the takoyaki […]
January 10th, 2010 was a holiday in Japan, Seijin no hi, 成人の日. Better known as “Coming of Age Day” in English, Seijin no hi is a day in Japan to celebrate all of those individuals who turn between April 1st of the previous year and March 31st of the current year. Interestingly enough, these very […]
I recently conducted an interview with Amanda Taylor of whoa-im-in-japan.com. I got word that she would be moving to Japan on January 10th, 2011. The tenth is a special day for me, because that’s the exact same date that I moved Japan (I came January 10th, 2008). Amanda’s training is actually happening around the same […]
There was an article last week a while back about teaching salaries in Japan that I wanted to revisit. Reason being that there was a part of that article that I didn’t address: Is it expensive to live in Japan? Well, to answer this question you have to consider a number of different factors, just […]
I wanted to do a short post about an item that is quite common in Japanese culture, the bento. A bento, べんとう(弁当), is the word for a Japanese lunchbox. There are two main images that the word “bento” conjures up in my mind. When I think of a bento, I’m reminded of the ready-made meals […]
Pop Quiz! Can you name all of the Ghibli Studio Films? If you were able to, congratulations. If you couldn’t do it, don’t feel bad, because I can’t do it either. I had a little online help with this one, but there are actually eighteen Ghibli films (excluding short films and Ghibli Museum movies): 1. […]
So I had to get my Alien Registration Card updated last Thursday and it was definitely the highlight of my day. My manager, Tomomi Sensei, and were supposed to leave at 3:00 in order to get to City Hall by 3:15. Needless to say we actually left around 3:20 or so and ended up getting […]