Like this post? Help us by sharing it! After recently seeing the 2 years on my apartment rental agreement come to an end, I had to reengage in activity with my Tokyo Estate Agents– and oh how the memories of 2 years prior came flooding back, when my bank account was completely drained. The realities […]
Miscellaneous
Something for the weekend – 151A: A moral from Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! 151A: How can these 4 characters make a moral? Let me explain. For those of you who don’t know, the number one is pronounced ‘ichi’ in Japanese. Five is ‘go’. And ‘A’, well, ‘A’ is ‘A’. (In the Japanese phonetic alphabet, this becomes equivalent to ‘E’.) So, […]
Tohoku: Then & Now – Ester De Roij
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Hanami with Kondosan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Two years on from the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, tourism to Japan is back to pre-tsunami levels and InsideJapan Tours are assisting more people than ever in discovering the beautiful culture, countryside and people of Japan. In this anniversary week, the InsideJapan blog will focus on […]
Learning to Love the Ocean
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Two years on from the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, tourism to Japan is back to pre-tsunami levels and InsideJapan Tours are assisting more people than ever in discovering the beautiful culture, countryside and people of Japan. In this anniversary week, the InsideJapan blog will focus on […]
The Tsunami Coast
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View from the hospital
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Although my time volunteering with It’s Not Just Mud is drawing to a close, we managed to find time between shifts to venture down to Onagawa Port where the tsunami devastation is most evident. The hospital. The waves reached up to the first floor, 18 metres in […]
Life in the It’s Not Just Mud community
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Hello again from Ishinomaki. Today I thought I’d share photos of life in the It’s Not Just Mud volunteer house. It’s very much communal living here, with around 20 volunteers staying in two neighbouring Japanese style houses. It’s been amazing to get to know volunteers from Japan, […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Hello again from Ishinomaki. Today I thought I’d share photos of life in the It’s Not Just Mud volunteer house. It’s very much communal living here, with around 20 volunteers staying in two neighbouring Japanese style houses. It’s been amazing to get to know volunteers from Japan, […]