The Year of the Horse.  /Janne and Ritsuko.

The holidays are coming up, and the calendar gods are truly smiling upon us this year! The new year holiday is nine days this year, and if ...

We're away on our winter holidays. We've had too much Christmas food, visited relatives, seen my new nephew for the first time, and...

Back again, after almost a week at OIST. It was very productive, despite a few unexpected issues ¹ . As good as teleconference systems have...

I'm on my way to Okinawa and OIST where I'll spend a few days working with the other people in my group. Internet meetings have bee...

As you may have noticed, I have turned off the Google+ integration of blog comments here on this blog. The initial idea was good: brin...

Another year, another attempt at the JLPT — Japanese Language Proficiency Test — Level N1. As always, it's held on the first Sunday in D...