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Bringing Home the Tofu: An Expat Love Story

Four seasons on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost, frontier island.


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Pandemic Diaries: Tokyo

Candid street and urban shots and observations from daily life and (mis-)adventures around the Greater Tokyo Area, plus updates on the coronavirus crisis in the world’s greatest megacity

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Feature Story:

Not Just Coronavirus: Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence” Cover

COVID-19 isn’t the only pandemic we’re coping with…

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Morning Voices, Tokyo Corona Diary

In this time of crisis, pre-schoolers are voices of the past, present, and future

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Found Poem: Japan’s “New Normal.” May 24th Edition

Adapted from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s May 14th Press Conference by the Prime Minister regarding the Novel Coronavirus

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Soundtrack to Coronavirus Days: The New Unreal

Tokyo Corona Diary, May 15

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Corona Lost & Found

COVID taketh away — and giveth


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Japan Kills Me 2.0: Photos

Snaps from daily life and uncommon adventures over 20 years in Japan — from 2011 to 2016.

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Tokyo Kills Me 2020: The Year of the Rat (Updated 2/18/20)

Candid street, urban, and omoshiroi mono “interesting thing” snaps from an expat’s daily life in Tokyo, the greatest megacity in the world


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Hokkaido Photos: Power Spots, National Parks, and Other Haunts on Japan’s Frontier Island

Shiretoko; Akan-ko; and Daisetsusan National Parks; Abashiri; Biei; Countryside

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The National Capital Region’s cities, islands, and mountains through an expat’s viewfinder (and, increasingly, on a smartphone screen)

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The Ice Storm of 2013 in Text and Pictures

A Prodigal Son’s Firsthand Account of Toronto’s Nightmare Before Christmas

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Gunkanjima: Japan’s Battleship Island

Nagasaki’s World Heritage haikyo “ruin porn”

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The Day Japan Moved Eight Feet

A first-hand account from Tokyo of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis triple tragedy which struck Japan March 11th, 2011.

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Love in the Champagne Pow Pow

an expat love story set in remote, northernmost Japan

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What’s in a Name?

A personal essay on international marriage. Or, what happens when two family trees graft different cultures…

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Sacred Mount Fujisan: Mountains of Japan

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