Can you find the treasure?
Living here in Japan you learn to make do without a lot of foods you took for granted back home; hamburgers, Mexican food, pizza that doesn’t have corn on it…being a hardy ex-pat you learn to replace them with more available alternatives. However, every once in a while you stumble [...]
‘Amanokuchi-whatsa,’ the word stumbled out of my mouth like a handful of scrabble letters. ‘What the heck is that?’ ‘Kochidaniamadaji. It’s a temple up in the mountains past Sanzenin. Trust me Mike, you gotta go there,’ Joe assured me. I looked at him a bit incredulously, ‘Go there? How [...]
Sarah Conner
As I left work today, stepped out the door and into the night a line from Terminator 2 crept from somewhere in the back of my mind and slipped from my lips. I said it not once, not twice, but three times. Each iteration resonating stronger and stronger. Where it came from I [...]
“Good evening” an older Japanese man said to me in English as he passed, entering the coffee shop I was sitting in front of. I looked up from my computer where I was doing some work and replied, ‘good evening.’ My eyes once again focusing on the screen in front of me I secretly hoped [...]