Here and There Japan

Saturday, March 10, 2012 Tomo Anthology Launch: An Evening of Readings, Discussion and Reflection Time: Saturday, March 10, 2012, 6:30-8:0...

February 3 is setsubun , the day the season changes from winter to spring. Beans are thrown to scare away bad spirits and invite good ones ...

I usually don't take photos of people. "People aren't scenery," Big Sister told me when I started this blog. Papa, ...

The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) awarded their Young Adult Literature Award to Holly Thompson's novel Orchards ...

Mt. Fuji has been snow-capped since November. Today, Tokyo was capped in snow. The snow highlighted the mountains to the wes...

Later in the day, the snow on our roof began to curl... because of the snow guards. Click on the photos to enlarge th...

Papa says it may have been some debris from the Russian satellite returning to earth. It could have been an earthquake cloud. I think i...

Little Brother went back to school today after the winter break. His high school is far from our house so he has to get up early. When ...

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We go to Fugakusan-Shoraku-in Jindaiji (we call it Jindaiji) on the third day of every new year. I hang out there and in the botanical ...

We lost our friend Ivy Terasaka and her young family at Phuket, Thailand in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. That Grecian horse was a house...

Papa saw 100 Santas on motorcycles in Shinjuku Tokyo tonight! Click on the labels below for more posts about Christmas in Japan.

The view from Starbucks. Christmas 2011 ad campaign. Amazing mural on the floor. It's like a big sticker, I'm sure, but it do...

This freeze-dried yuzu tea has been available all month. Just add hot water. The steamed cake has pieces of sweetened dried yuzu peel on t...

Three yuzu fruit are placed in the bath on the winter solstice. The cloth bag of yuzu and the packaged bag of yuzu peel is from Tokyu depa...

On the right is sushi made with fugu or blow fish. It is topped with red radish and a green stem. Sushi chefs have to have a license to cu...

Click here for a post about drying persimmons.

150 yen for a full head of Chinese cabbage! Direct from the field. Click to enlarge the photo and you'll see another, bigger hakusai o...