Well, it seems I have compiled the full festival list for the summer of 2011 at last !! Some of the fireworks displays were expected to be canceled because of the the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, but in the end weren’t. Foreigners are believed to stay away this summer but locals may be in the mood to travel […]
Festivals This Summer 2011 : Part 2
Great so now it’s time for my annual Festival Preview! The problem is that there is still some disagreement about exactly what festivals will be held when. Because of the problems in the Tohoku area, some festivals may have been canceled or are in limbo at the moment. I can report that while many foreigners […]
Living In Japan Without a Worry in the World
Yoko and I have been married for thirteen years and our anniversary is this Friday the 24th. It is a particularly auspicious day in the Japanese calendar because it is ‘Taian’, a day of especially good luck. Well, good luck has certainly been with us as here we are all these years later and it […]
