Today I was walking through Roppongi around lunchtime, and I saw a couple teenage boys, maybe 15 or 16 years old, standing at the street corner waiting for the cross signal to change. When it changed, the boys started screaming, threw their hands in the air, flailed around, and ran across the street. When they [...]
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When we decided to make the move to Japan, we thought about what we should bring and what we should leave behind. We had been warned that Japanese apartments are very small, and that Western furniture may be too big to fit into the apartments. While that can be true, it isn’t always the case. [...]
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The Tsukiji Fish Market is an amazing place, and it will not be in its current location in a few years, so if you have any interest in seeing the world’s largest fish market and tuna auction in action, then you should make the trip there one morning at 4 am. But please be respectful [...]
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