Japan – the Untold Stories

February 22, 2019

27 April-16 May 2018. Trains I’m on a train from suburban Fuchu heading back to my hostel in Central Tokyo …

Kimonos-Weddings-Geisha: the streets of Kyoto

November 6, 2018

10-15 May 2018. I have six full days in Kyoto but I lose two of them. I lose the first …

October 25, 2018

9-15 May 2018. In 1950 a disturbed 22-year-old novice monk burned down the five-hundred–year-old Rokuon-ji Temple in Kyoto, and then …

May 10, 2018

Of course I’ve been aware for most of my life of the obvious and iconic examples of Japanese culture: sumo, …