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What It’s Like to Spend Christmas in Japan: Five Unique Holiday Quirks
What’s in a Japanese Christmas? One of the questions I get asked most around the holiday season is: what is Christmas like Read More
August’s Nature Spotlight: Soaring Sunflowers, Himawari Havens
Fields of Golden Sunlight: A Summer Paradise Sunflowers, which are called himawari in Japan, are basically sunshine incarnate. They are a cheerful Read More
Enter the Paddies: Rice Planting in Rural Japan
The Japanese Countryside: A Myriad of Rice Paddies Take a drive through the countryside in Japan, and you’re bound to come across Read More
May’s Nature Spotlight: Dazzling Wisteria, Fuji no Hana
A Dangling Floral Canopy Japanese wisteria are truly a wondrous sight to behold. Walking through those dizzying canopies of dangling blossoms really Read More
April’s Nature Spotlight: The Beauty of Sakura, Japanese Cherry Blossoms
The Ephemeral Beauty of Sakura Japanese cherry blossoms, also known as sakura, are one of the most iconic and well-known symbols of Read More
March’s Nature Spotlight: Japanese Plum Blossoms, Ume no Hana
The First Signs of Spring – Ume no Hana As the cold winter season comes to a close, the time for ume Read More
A Day in Kimono: My Furisode Experience
Ever since I touched down here in Japan, I had been looking forward to the day that I would have the chance Read More