Japanese What's in a Name Saturday I attended a gathering at the famed watering hole "Waterr", where everyone was suppose to be fashioned in red. I say this as an explanation for the lousy amounts of
Adventures 八甲田 - Hakkouda Like I said, this last weekend was an overnight backcountry trip up in Aomori-ken, the northernmost prefecture on 本州 (honshyu), the main island of Japan. I'm going to relate the story of the
B'nuts There was a weekend When I was asked about my weekend on Monday, it was not readily apparent to me that one had occurred. This reminded me why I have a blog - a very, very poor
abura soba This Month in Android Shots And that's how I start a post made of just pictures from my android phone. As you'll remember, my good camera was quite tragically broken, and given that my old camera runs out
Japanese Interpreter 通訳者 An event that happened in the car-ride on the way to Yamadera with Mike, Disa, and Suzuki-san: I was working away as interpreter for the two parties, and trying to help the
Japanese Fun with Japanese Japanese has a lot of words that stand very near each other in a phonetic sense. If you write these words with their kanji (Chinese ideographs) they might not look much alike (巨大&