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Continue reading →: Minato City Sports Center
Like any good city section, Minato Ward in Tokyo has its own Sports Center. I’ve written about the municipal gym before, but not the sports center, which is not for all of Tokyo, but special for residents of the Minato Ward of Tokyo (A ward is similar to a borough…
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Continue reading →: National Azabu Renovations
Normally if a supermarket renovates its interior, I wouldn’t take enough notice of it to write a whole blog post about it, but this is different. National Azabu is a fixture in the expat community of Tokyo and in 2011, it closed, razed to the ground, and rebuilt. It just…
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Continue reading →: Thanksgiving At My Home Away From Home
To an expat, the idea of “home” is very confusing. It could be where you live currently, where you’re from, or even the last place you lived before moving to where you are now. It just depends on the connections you’ve made or the roots you’ve set down. However, on…
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Continue reading →: Healthy Pepsi! Yeah right…
Last week Pepsi Company launched “Pepsi Special” in Japan. Approved and regulated by the government of Japan, the soda contains the dietary fiber Dextrin, which is claimed to regulate digestion and block the absorption of fat in the body from foods. So is there anything to these claims? Perhaps, but…
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Continue reading →: NaNoWriMo
For those of you who don’t know, November is National Novel Writing Month. Hence the acronym NaNoWriMo. The challenge, put out by the Office of Letters and Lights (OLL) in California, and undertaken by literally hundreds of thousands of people, is to write 50,000 words in a month. Yep, 50,000. …
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Continue reading →: Restaurant Review: Le Pot Aux Roses, Azabu Juban
When walking from Roppongi Hills, past Tsutaya and toward Azabu Juban Shotengai, there’s a corner building that has huge windows on the fifth floor. It’s more noticeable at night when the darkness highlights the window, but it can easily be seen during the day as well. After talking about it…
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Continue reading →: Visas For Life – A Special Concert from the Israeli Embassy
On Tuesday night I had the privilege of attending a concert put on by the Embassy of Israel in Japan. It was titled “Visas for Life” and dedicated to the work and the memory of Chiune Sugihara, who wrote transit visas in Lithuania during WWII to save thousands of Jews. …
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Continue reading →: In Ginza, When is a Mannequin not a Mannequin?
This was the window of Furla, the upscale Italian handbag shop in Ginza two weeks ago. There was a crowd of people around it! I peered through the throng just staring at the window, and then, lo and behold, the mannequin moved. It seems that Furla had hired live women…
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Continue reading →: Post Trick or Treat – or “Now What?” with Teens
My son, Bailey, is a young teen, having just turned 13 and in the 8th grade. He and his friends, however, never ones to miss an opportunity to get free candy, put on costumes and hit the street, just as they had for years on October 31st. This time, though,…
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