Well, almost… Actually there were 2 winners here at Azamino SSE. Maybe you remember our baby pool ? When we ran out space in the first one, a second pool was devised. Mr. Nogi won the baby pool guessing the closest to the time and date of the birth of [...]
Two weeks ago I had a very inexpensive, nice day and night soaking in the natural hotspring waters of Hakone. While it is not the most extravagant place I have stayed at, it suited all our needs. “Kappa Tengoku” is located just 3 minutes from Hakone Yumoto Station. I got a room for two for [...]
The popularity of manga – or comic books – in Japan really is phenomenal. It doesn’t seem to matter where you are, what you’re doing, or how many people you’re surrounded by. If you take a good look around you, you might be surprised to find someone (or several people) indulging themselves in either a [...]
Things are rolling at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi School. Last week I gave three trial lessons and one student joined right away. This week I have two trial lessons on my schedule. I gave one on the 9th and she joined the next day! I’m going to give another one tonight! Fantastic! The two [...]
As you probably know by now, my wife Yoko and I are great fans of driving around Japan and my wheels have traveled across 30 prefectures. We love going to our favorite places over and over again but just as rewarding is searching out new ones, fabulous places that are sometimes missed on people’s itineraries. There [...]
Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi enjoyed holding a barbecue event with the Okamoto, Horie, Otsu and Fuse schools on July 27th, 2008 at Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park in Osaka, Japan. My school’s group was made up of some students, their friends and family, my wife, her cousin, a person who works at her workplace and me. At [...]
September is when a lot of students go back to school after their summer holidays and after the August obon holiday when many Japanese have a holiday. It’s a great time to put some extra effort into promotion to get new students. I will be handing out flyers and dropping flyers into mailboxes in Tsukaguchi. Yesterday I [...]
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