The Japanese tea ceremony might seem like a simple thing, but as with most...
Blogs about my articles published elsewhere
Ise-Shima National Park is home to Japan’s most famous Shinto shrine, making it a...
Karuizawa, nestled in wooded hills only an hour’s ride away from Tokyo, has a...
Thanks to the Internet, I keep finding magazine and newspaper articles I wrote before...
A couple of months ago I was in Tokyo and had the opportunity to...
Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is one of those small towns with such a...
I don’t even want to think about how many hotel rooms I’ve stayed in...
Almost every time I’ve been in Hong Kong–and I can’t even count how many...
I’ve long been writing about how much Macau has changed since I first stepped...
I’ve seen numerous waterfalls, but nothing prepared me for Iguazu Falls. In fact, I...
I feel sorry for day-trippers arriving in Macau by ferry from Hong Kong without...
It’s no secret that there’s a long-standing rivalry between Osaka and Tokyo. In fact,...
Hokkaido is Japan’s second-largest island and takes up about 22% of the country’s landmass....
It’s easy to rave against oil in today’s world–it pollutes, our dependency on it...
Tokyo’s working climate has changed dramatically since Debbie Howard came to Japan in 1985...
Back in the days when the Portuguese still ruled over Macau, nightlife consisted of...
Japan is gearing up for the debut of a new bullet train in the...
I didn’t know how lucky I was to get an apartment for practically nothing...
Before I became absorbed with the relentlessly hard work of researching and writing guide...
I’ve been going to Macau regularly since the mid-1980s, and with the exception, perhaps,...
My business in Hong Kong is to write about it so others can be...
I’ve been going to Ni-Chome, in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, long before writing...
Tokyo Story, reflecting on my 30 years of covering...
There are Chinatowns in several port cities in Japan, including Yokohama and Nagasaki. I...
I wrote an article called <a title="Hong Kong Food & Drink Tours" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/experience/food-and-wine/tours-and-trails/food-tours-and-trails/2013/08/23/hong-kong-culinary-tours/2665971/" target="_blank"...
