Now that's a first...

I’ve seen a lot of strange things on Japanese trains these past five years.  Drunks passed out on the benches, old women (and I do mean old) dressed in school girl uniforms, ‘train parties’ where people spend hours riding around while drinking, just to name a few.  But this evening as I rode home on [...]

Red light, green light?

The streets of Kyoto are not safe.  They are not safe at all    I have witnessed things that would cause the sanest and most controlled of us in the US to begin screaming obscenities and shake our fists.  I know this for a fact because I have been hit by a car, not once but [...]