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 [...]
Something struck me the other day as I watched a young Japanese girl pound away at the multi-colored keys of an arcade machine blaring loud techno music. On screen little colored blocks floated down to the beat in a steady stream, the goal being to push the right button at the exact moment it reached [...]
Do you ever get that urge to stand up, get out of your house and follow a road you’ve never been down before, that urge to see something new, feel something different and do something for the first time? I don’t know about you but I get that urge quite a bit. I believe that [...]
“It’s you! Hello! Hello!” a loud and boisterous voice called from a brightly lit sidewalk restaurant as we passed by. It was 11:30pm on Thursday in a small Osaka suburb and my girlfriend and I were headed home for the evening. At first we looked around to see if they were calling to us, after [...]