We're just back from a three-night trip to Aomori in northern Japan. I'll post more detail later once I've processed the picture...

We've had a newspaper for as long as I've lived here. But at the end of January we quit our print subscription to the Asahi Shimbun ...

Here's the most interesting soda I've had in years 1 . We found it in an antenna shop along Midōsuji street in Osaka this morning, a...

There's a small comment change happening on this blog. Google has (finally!) made it possible to lump together blog comments posted her...

today has been declared " passive voice day" in some quarters. Fun idea, I guess; language games are always entertaining. And si...

Pisang Tanduk is a cooking banana, a variety of rhino horn plantains. They're starchy and not very sweet when raw so you generally cook ...

Wisdom teeth. Not the greatest invention in the evolutionary history of mankind. At least we 1 only have four of them, so there's a li...