I'm getting keener and keener to visit Japan again soon(ish) and any blog posts about Japan are grabbing my attention with a vice-like grip. And so it was with a recent Enduring Wanderlust post on 5 Great Reasons to Visit Japan. They were great reasons: delicious food (even if they failed to mention …
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Being sick in Japan is big in Japan
With apologies for the corny title, I'm talking illness today because my household is currently suffering through our worst winter plague since ... well ever, probably, since we now have a small boy who is very generous about spreading germs around left, right and centre. Since all I can think about …
Picture pirouette: Osaka’s famous neons
The Glico Man on Dotonbori Bridge, Osaka, JapanIt's kind of weird that in a place with as many gorgeous traditions as Japan, one of the most famous sights in Osaka is all about advertising. Kind of weird, except that Japan is all about contrasts and of course being a super-technology land, you can't …