There was too much fuss this year over Halloween in Tokyo! Even though Japan has a long history of fairly scary things, the commercial American style Halloween has become more popular over the years. That has its good points and its bad points.
There is of course the Infamous Yamanote Halloween Train, which in previous...
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So, just as I have gotten settled in, Fall is here.
The temperature is dropping and the women here are already getting out their fur mufflers. On top of it all, you never know when its going to rain. I have a feeling I’m going to be living in boots for the next couple of...
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The school down the street had some kind of international fesivtal today where they had an orchestra playing peices from Wagner’s Nibelungen. It sounded like a rock concert, with the students screaming like there had been a Beatles (Backstreet Boys? Jonas Brothers?) appearance.
That sort of thing can be pretty scary first thing in the...
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