During my time teaching in Japan, I have learned a great deal about the English language. My students here are fond of using and combining…
This isn’t the first time I have had the urge to comment on the – creative – English waiting to be discovered across Japan, but…
Nenkyu (年休), or vacation time in Japan, doesn’t work as you may expect, coming from another country. Rules and “working hours” are law.
Since relocating to Japan, I have learned a lot about the country’s customs, culture, and children (but mostly about konbinis). And since the children are…
Fukui Prefecture is home to more nuclear reactors than any other prefecture in Japan. Thanks to this we have drills to practice for the eventual meltdown.
I’m no expert in the fields of teaching or language acquisition (despite my extensive list of expertise including but not limited to: pooping in the…
So today is the big day? Apparently I have yet to officially be employed despite having already been told to do things related to said…
Sushi, Sony, Miyazaki, Nintendo, Sumo. You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t associate at least one of these things with Japan. But what…
6:50 AM, and my alarm goes off. I’m not outdoors in my sleeping bag meaning I am not okay being woken up this early. Snooze…
Japan has granted me the opportunity to experience school lunch in a third country, on a third continent (depending on how you classify The Americas,…
Fukui, one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, is located on the island of HonshÅ« in Japan’s ChÅ«bu region along the country’s western coast. Fukui is seventy…
It was bound to happen eventually – I finally got myself a temporary, permanent address (or at least I expect to have one soon). Yes,…
