Here and There Japan

On this day in 1964 , Bob Hayes won the Gold Medal in the 100 meter race in the Olympic Games here in Tokyo. He was drafted as a wide rec...

The 1964 Olympics opened on October 10th in Tokyo. That date became Sports Day all over Japan. In our area, schools have their undokai...

Before Big Sister left Japan in June for university, she and I had teatime at "Afternoon Tea", a place that serves lunch and tea ...

Within weeks after the East Japan earthquake and tsunami March 2011, UniQlo had a big display of specially designed T-shirts in the middle...

Today was this blog's birthday! This will be Here and There Japan 's fifth year. The first post was about our pet turtle, Ethel. ...

a small Japanese inn overlooking the sea where I stayed 22 years ago, small tree-covered islands dotting the shoreline, a small shrine, t...

are some of the relief efforts of the international schools in Japan.

I called my mom yesterday to wish her a happy birthday. My cousin had something she wanted to tell me. She works for an elementary school in...

Satoshi Kitamura is an author and illustrator of children's books. Here is something he wrote for The Guardian in the UK about his Marc...

St. Mary's International School, Tokyo is collecting the following from their community of students, parents, teachers, and staff: To...

Tsukuba International School (http://www.tis.ac.jp) in Ibaraki, Japan has collected food for the people in Kita-Ibaraki. The name of the ...

ASIJ, the American School in Japan, has partnered with Tama Church and Second Harvest Japan to deliver emergency aid directly to the effecte...

Noriko Kudoh, a Japanese children's book author and illustrator, has published over twenty humorous children's stories and ma...

At our house, the March 11th earthquake was about a 6 on the Japanese scale. We were very lucky that we didn't have any damage and no on...

It's that time of year. The trees in our neighborhood are full of either birds or men. The birds are preening. The men are pruning.

This post got lost in the shuffle. It was dated in 2007 and wasn't published. It is a display of bath stools and pails at a department ...

This product is relatively new. It is a cloth that helps protect the hina dolls in storage. Jiji, grandfather, always wanted us to put t...

Snacks sometimes have seasonal decorations on their packaging. See the yellow stars in front of the screen surrounded by plum blossoms? The...

Across Japan (and the world, I guess), authors and illustrators and friends are eating mikan or clementines to celebrate the launch of Hol...

Holly Thompson's book, Orchards , launches today. Click here to get your copy. Mine hasn't arrived yet. I believe most of the story...