Today’s mild typhoon is a welcome relief after more than six weeks of record-breaking heat and absolutely no rain in central Tokyo. I was....
8 Sep 1:13 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

This Shinjuku ni-chome sidewalk garden is exceptional in its size, care, and labeling. The gardener lives in a former shop in an old buildi....
6 Sep 9:12 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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1 Sep 12:28 am  from  Wide Island View   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Our Partner, Kalyhost, founder by Mark, need your input for future services and development, and decided to offer to anyone participating to....
20 Mar 10:57 am  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 

This plant in the foreground arrived on its own to my balcony container garden, and now it is flowering. The flowers look like peas, and th....
27 Feb 11:19 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

Dear reader and dear friends I would like to introduce you to the newly launch Website Kalyhost from Tibanne k.k a young Japanese company t....
17 Feb 5:26 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 

This is an ongoing series of posts in which I talk about my experiences teaching English to a small group of Maiko in Kyoto’s traditional ....
9 Feb 12:05 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

Correctly-addressing even close friends in Japanese is a matter of some complexity that I won’t attempt to explain here. However, iShare r....
13 Jan 12:29 am  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Encouraged by my host Suzuki Makoto sensei at Tokyo University of Agriculture, I recently visited the Edo Gardening Flowers exhibit being h....
16 Nov 7:02 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent]