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, 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...
Dec 18, 2001 | Culture, Fukuma
While you can see a little holiday cheer in the city, for the most part you don’t see a whole lot of Christmas decor here in Japan. To help compensate, I do what I can to deck out my computer’s interface with the proverbial Spirit o’ th’...
Dec 18, 2001 | Culture, Fukuma
This week, Fletcher and I got bamboozled into visiting our local kindergartens and spreading the good will of the Christmas season by dressing up as Santa Claus and parading around like idiots (sadly, I don’t think we got any photos of this). Don’t get me...
Dec 18, 2001 | Fukuma, Rants
So I had a wonderful update planned, full of Cheerful Holiday….uh…Cheer, I guess, but then I went and got sick as hell on Thursday and have stayed that way straight through the weekend. I’m only just now starting to recover. It was so bad I even...
