Halloween at Universal Studios Japan – Good Kawaii Fun! In Photographs

Halloween in Japan has been growing a lot. This year I noticed far more Jack'o'lanterns and Western style Halloween decorations than last year. As if it were a orchestrated event, as just about every store or restaurant had some kind of Halloween theme or promotion. Fun! I was excited to take a friend who is …

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Japan’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Summer

Earthquakes, floods, heatwave and typhoons in Japan. A summer of living dangerously!

Earthquake in Osaka

It was an ordinary morning here on the 35th floor of our Shinmachi Osaka apartment June 18, 2018. We had just returned the night before from a whirlwind two-day tour of Tokyo with my two kids who are visiting from Florida. We were exhausted, and my husband called in sick to work. I was in …

My Japanese Summer – List of 10 Things to Do in Japan!

Should I stay or should I go now? That was the question posed to myself after realizing that all of the expats I know are leaving Japan for the summer to visit their home countries or simply to escape the summer heat. Now, I have lived in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands where …

Conscientious Japan’s Ethos – In Pictures

Japan works as a society because its Buddhist principles regard every person and object of nature as worthy of reverence and part of one's own self. There is no separation. What you do to another is what you do to yourself, because you are a product of nature, and nature is a product of you. …

The High-Quality of Life in Japan is Vastly Different from A Declining United States

The freedom I experience in Japan with its high-quality of life makes me realize how cheated my fellow citizens are as the United States slips into decline and chaos under President Donald Trump.  The mere fact that I can get on my bike and ride around Osaka and get anywhere I want quickly, rain or …