Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking into the effects of the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region on 11th March 2011. You might have read Emma’s personal account of the earthquake while teaching in Sendai, the closest city to the quake’s epicentre, […]
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5 years on: My experience of the Tohoku Earthquake
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Inside Japan travel consultant Emma Price lived in Japan from 2010 until 2015, where she worked as an English teacher in a junior high school in Sendai. Located on the east coast of Tohoku, Sendai was the city closest to the epicentre of the Tohoku Earthquake on […]
Ganbaro Tohoku: Recovering from the earthquake
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Wreckage on the tsunami coast, 6 months later
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! This month at Inside Japan Tours it’s all about Tohoku, the northern region devastated by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown of 2011. Last week we took a look back at the chilling events of the ‘triple disaster’ and what it meant for the affected areas; this […]
The triple disaster: Looking back on the Tohoku Earthquake
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! On the 11th of March 2016, Japan will be marking five years since its ‘triple disaster’: the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown that collectively claimed over 18,000 lives in 2011. To mark the anniversary of the disaster, this month at Inside Japan Tours is going to be […]
Onomatopoeic Japanese: An introduction
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Shin shin (Brrrrr!)
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Andrew Robbins is the founder of the Onomato Project, a website devoted to the wonderful world of onomatopoeic and mimetic words in Japanese. Here, he introduces us to a few of his favourite seasonal terms.. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Supreme bicycle service
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Yadoruya is not your typical bicycle shop. The first thing visitors see are many new bicycles on display, so in that sense I suppose it isn’t too novel, but the next thing one might notice is the well-stocked bar – then perhaps the hammocks in the lounge […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Yadoruya is not your typical bicycle shop. The first thing visitors see are many new bicycles on display, so in that sense I suppose it isn’t too novel, but the next thing one might notice is the well-stocked bar – then perhaps the hammocks in the lounge […]