Here and There Japan

Where are all the gardeners?

Here she is!

Ethel was my first post last year. Click on the archives to read more about her. She is now eighteen years old. Here and There Japan is...

Little Brother used these math books in fifth grade last year. They are long, narrow books. There are 40 pages in each book. The book on th...

Homework is done in a notebook like this one. Students have notebooks for each subject. Fifth grade math homework is done in a notebook li...

Little Brother used these textbooks in fifth grade last year. They are all paperbacks. Some of these books were used in one semester and o...

Hi, M.B. Thanks for your question and for your work for the animals of the world. I would suggest joining the online forum of Voices for Yo...

This is Little Brother's fifth grade class schedule from last fall. The kanji on the left at the top says ji kan wari hyou (schedule)...

I had flag patrol this morning. For the first two weeks of the new school year, all students at our elementary school meet in their neighbo...

Elementary students have their teeth checked at school. Students line up in the gym to have their teeth examined by dentists. They get a sh...

Little Brother was cleaning his room and found these multiplication flashcards. He got them in second grade, I think. They were part of a h...

In the first year of elementary, junior high, and high school, students have their hearts checked. Every year in elementary school, they ha...

It was Friday the 13th. The number 4 is the unlucky number in Japan. There are two ways of saying 4, yon and shi . Shi also means "dea...

These are the ends of Japanese pencils. Some have smooth painted ends. Some have bare ends that show the lead inside. There are no erasers ...

Some of you may be interested in weeds. You'll have to click to enlarge the pictures. You may recognize the one in the picture above. I...

Little Brother took two of these to hang his zokin on the front railing on his desk at school. He hangs them there to dry after he uses the...

The white blooms are daikon plants that were left in the ground. They went to seed and bloomed. The yellow blooms are very common here. I...

  These plants were here all winter. The farmer didn't harvest the broccoli. Now, they are blooming. The broccoli is blooming! Have you ...

There are probably only two TOYS "R" US stores in Japan. The one near us sells randoseru, public elementary school bags . Bla...

We had soft cream when we went to Jindai Botanical Garden the other day. There was only one sakura (cherry blossom) soft cream left. We al...