I always am learning new things about Japanese culture while living and teaching English in Japan. Whether it’s from my students at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi, from my Japanese family or others, learning these new things makes Japanese culture all that more interesting to me. Before coming to Japan, I didn’t know that firecrackers and fireworks […]
Still Japan
Living in Japan is easy for me because modern Japan is quite westernized. There are so many western-related things that I do here. I eat hamburgers, go to Starbucks Coffee, wear western clothing, speak English (with my students at at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi and with my wife), watch American movies in English at western-style movie theaters that […]