The second festival on our most-loved list and one that deserves at least an honorable mention in any one’s top five review is the Aug 8th show at Otsu Biwako. This is a very good show in a charming setting but the crowd can be quite daunting as you’d expect. The setting off the beach [...]
Hope you all had a great break! With the festival season now pretty much coming to a close, I thought it might be a good idea to review and recap some of the festivals that my wife Yoko and I are particularly fond of. The rationale behind this is that next year all of you [...]
Hello all! Now I cannot profess to know very much about Ikebana, but it is one of my wife Yoko’s favorite hobbies and she is surprisingly intuitive and talented for it. Sagagoryu is the type of Ikebana Yoko has studied at length as a hobby, but anyone even remotely knowledgable on the subject can tell [...]
Well another year goes by and the summer festival season is right around the corner once again! Everyone knows how much we love reveling in the summer heat! Very soon I’ll publish the summer festival calendar my wife and I look forward to so much each year. I was hoping to do it today but [...]
スミス英会話なかもず校・堺東校の講師が書いた記事。日本語はこちらへ。 I became interested in photography during high school art classes. The art program was pretty good and the school facilities allowed us to develop our own black and white shots. Ever since school I have wanted to devote more time to improving my photography skills. This feeling has grown stronger since moving to live in Japan, as [...]
スミス英会話なかもず校・堺東校の講師が書いた記事。日本語はこちらへ。 One of the first things I remember noticing after having lived in Japan for a year was how the four seasons of the year were so defined. Each season provides opportunities to take part in a wide range of events and activities. Some are unique to Japan, and others I was used to doing [...]
Osaka is a city of many great museums. Many people may often overlook this city as a major Japanese cultural centre, instead focusing more on Kyoto and Tokyo. However, Osaka more than holds its own when it comes to culture. This is especially good news because Smiths School of English is based right here in [...]
Well, that was it; the Golden Week holiday is but a memory, and I’m fully back in the swing of teaching at my English school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi. But the memories are great, having spent several days with my wife, Megumi’s family in Matsue, Shimane Ken. As always, we were treated with great warmth [...]
It might come as a surprise to many that there is a still a lot of nature in Japan. Many people often refer to the seemingly endless urban concrete sprawl, a certain image that Japan is certainly famous for, but at the same time the propensity of its people to gather in large metropolitan areas [...]
Most everyone has some idea of what a telescope is but only the truly seasoned astronomer knows that it is more of a time machine than anything else. And bigger really is better! When was the birth of the universe? Are we expanding at a decreasing rate and heading for another Big Bang? When does the Milky [...]
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