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I don’t know how many times I’ve returned to Kakunodate over the past...
Every morning I read the horoscope in my local newspaper just for kicks, but...
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As a travel writer specializing in Japan, I know I can never match the...
I’ve always wondered what it must be like to live in a town overrun...
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I’d never been to Cleveland, so about the only thing I knew for sure...
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...
Cincinnati and Cleveland get all the glory–or at least the sports fans, though I...
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...
Sintra was the playground of Portugal’s 19th-century rich, which explains why it has...
Bourbon is in a class all its own. It’s America’s only designated “native spirit,”...
Barbados has it nailed when it comes to tiny houses, painted in pastels of...
If you like Malbec, there’s no finer place to sample some of the world’s...
My last name is a dead giveaway to my German ancestry. But even though...
I’ve been to Argentina twice, beguiled by the hip European-like vibe of Buenos Aires,...
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