Jan 10, 2002 | Commentary, Culture, Fukuma, Photography
New Year’s In Japan, the “Big” holiday is New Year’s Day. It’s a lot more solemn then it is in the States and there’s lots of reflecting, visiting family graves, prodigal sons returning home, et al. I grabbed my camera, hopped on my...
Jan 10, 2002 | Commentary, Culture
Christmas So I had mentioned that I was going to be playing Santa at a couple of Kindergartens over the holiday season. As you’ll recall however, I got extremely ill and was able to cop out of one of the visits, but not before St. Nick paid a visit to Jingo...
Jan 10, 2002 | Commentary, Culture, Fukuma
Welcome to Japan – where contradictions are a way of life. We’ll get the meaning of that in a few paragraphs, but first I need to apologize for my extended absence lately. I didn’t intend to be gone from the site this long, but I guess I just got...
