Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I don’t get on well with early mornings. But with jet-lag still erratically winding my body clock, I find little trouble raising my head from the pillow at 5:45am despite a rather inconsistent nights sleep. The kindergarten in Ishinomaki is small. But then I don’t have many […]
Miscellaneous
Return to Japan- 6 months After the quake
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I have been back in Japan for 10 days and it feels good. It is hot, humid and sweaty. Not to everybody’s taste but I love it; an escape from the impending and inevitable drawing in of the nights in the UK and the prospect of a […]
Sludge shoveling in Ishinomaki
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The Volunteers!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I recently completed seven days volunteer work with the Japan-based non-profit organization Peace Boat. I was part of an international group of 6 volunteers – British, Japanese, Irish and Vietnamese. Complete strangers at the start, the nature of our work and life in Ishinomaki brought us together. We barely lost […]
Sendai and Matsushima after the tsunami
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! InsideJapan Co-Director, Simon King is currently travelling in Japan meeting up with colleagues, suppliers and business partners across the country. His travels included a trip to the Tohoku region which had areas very badly damaged as a result of the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th 2011. […]
More radiation in Cornwall or Tokyo?
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Japan still OK!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Although the Fukushima Plant continues make headlines, Bob Bury, the former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists, says that a number of countries and cities around the world have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, even during this time of crisis. Meanwhile, the […]
Learn Japanese! (Part Two)
“There are so many great Japanese study websites, programs and books available now. After using many of them ourselves, we tried to improve upon them to create the easiest and most fun learning system out there.”
Peter Galante
“There are so many great Japanese study websites, programs and books available now. After using many of them ourselves, we tried to improve upon them to create the easiest and most fun learning system out there.”
Peter Galante