Our Adventures in Japan

The government came up with a "brilliant" way to get the working class to "take a break" every last Friday of the month....

Did you know Japanese salarymen (business men) have pride? I call it "stupid pride". They refuse to wear their coats when they ...

About this time of year and again during the Fall, Satoshi's company has transfers. If you are being transferred, they usually give yo...

After being married for 11 years, you would think I'd be used to having to look after "someone" after they come home from a ni...

During the week, Satoshi usually comes home from work really late. Like 23:00 or 24:00 (sometimes even later and it isn't because he is...

Wednesday, we went to renew Satoshi's Japan drivers license so I wanted to share with you an email I sent to my family and friends in 20...

Monday started off blazing hot. Satoshi had the day off, so we headed to Umeda for some errands. It actually took us several years to visit ...

About 3 minutes from the Hankyu Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi station, there is a tiny shop that serves curry soba. The restaurant, Banbatei, was fe...

A good way to keep warm during the winter in Japan is to eat a nice, hot bowl of curry udon. Satoshi had the day off on Friday, so we went t...

What a long day today was...I had my bead crochet class. We made this napkin holder. And this necklace was a project that I wasn't finis...

During the summer, the Japanese government had a campaign to cut down the emissions of greenhouses, it was called "Cool Biz" (I th...