I became enamored of Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1980s, while living in Tokyo...
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I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,...
You can whip between Kyoto and Hiroshima in less than two hours on the...
People always ask which Japanese city is the most important to visit, and my...
The world of Japanese sake is so huge, that learning about the famous sake...
Nothing heralds the birth of spring more joyously than Japan’s cherry trees. Bursting forth...
You can zip between Tokyo and Kyoto on the Shinkansen bullet train in about...
The first time I saw a woman cooling herself with a Japanese folding fan,...
I first went to Japan to write some travel articles and ended up staying...
Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of the...
Every city changes with the passage of time, but it’s hard to imagine a...
There’s never been an Olympics like this one. Delayed a year because of the...
I don’t know how many times I’ve returned to Kakunodate over the past...
As a travel writer specializing in Japan, I know I can never match the...
When I first came to Tokyo in the mid 1980s, I stayed with a...
Nine years have passed since Japan’s northeastern coast was hit by a triple...
For the longest time, it seemed like I could talk hardly anyone into visiting...
In a nation famous for its high-tech bidet toilets, Tokyo is apparently also...
One of my most sensuous memories is of a tree, in a forest of...
Be More Japan, a hardback with lots of graphics covering a wide range...
Japan’s first contact with the Western world was in 1543 with the arrival of...
The Seto Inland Sea (Seto-Naikai) is considered Japan’s most scenic waterway, a vast emerald...
The horrific tsunami that swept across Iwate Prefecture and other areas of Tohoku’s coast...
Tipping is weird. Why, after all, are consumers responsible for the livelihood of people...
