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Category: Japan
  • Trash day

    Trash day and I’m up early to walk it down the block to the pickup point. All the neighbors put their trash in the same place (a big pile near a stone wall by the grocery store) and the little garbage truck comes to collect it. The trucks are cute–they are bright blue with the…

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  • Japan Summers

    The weather forecast predicts a 36 degree high today. Certainly the hottest day of summer. A good day to go meet a friend at Imojin and eat red bean ice and sip green tea. The office was 33 when I walked in this morning. Thank goodness for aircon. Tokyo summers are dreadful. June brings rain,…

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  • Today’s Weather in Tokyo:

    Today’s Weather in Tokyo: hot and humid. (It is summer after all!)

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  • Bonenkai

    A holiday story from the pre-blog days

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