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August 9, 2011 | Guides | 1 Comment
I must confess my stupidity. During my first 12 months in Japan I have been confusing the Japanese emoticon for ‘smiley’ with the one for ‘angry face’. It suddenly dawned on me, with a cold chill of realisation, that every time I emailed a new friend for the first time, or made a plan to […]
Has your kitchen turned into an oven? Your living room into a sauna? And your bedroom into a hot yoga studio? If yes, it’s likely you’re living in the middle of Japan during the middle of summer. And, oh yeah, in the middle of an energy crisis.
July 26, 2011 | Guides | No Comments
Summer festival season is upon us. For many Japanese people it means garnishing portable shrines and dusting off traditional costumes to parade through town. For all people it means enjoying fun in the sun, food stalls and fireworks. Nothing tops off the festival season better than doing it in style!
July 25, 2011 | Japan life | No Comments
One year ago, I wondered, with a mixture of excitement and trepidation, what adventures and stories lay in wait? For me, it all truly began the moment the plane touched down on the runway at Narita.
July 20, 2011 | News and Announcements | 1 Comment
The results are in and we have a winner! Congratulations to Nick Tenhue who has snatched the glory with his Hanging Cranes design. Thanks very much to Nick for providing us with this artistic and stylish image.
July 12, 2011 | News and Announcements | 8 Comments
Designs are in for the GAJET t-shirt contest and the competition was fierce! Ten designers submitted 25 designs in the hopes of setting the style for Gunma. Now it’s your turn to decide who wins.
June 28, 2011 | Japan life | 1 Comment
If a picture is worth a thousand words, seeing it in person is worth at least a million. Yet there were no words good enough to describe the devastation seen in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture.
June 23, 2011 | Japan life | 3 Comments
It’s close to two years since I arrived in Japan. Like many JETs, I’m now in preparation for the big kikoku. Of course, there are plenty of things to think about, to organise, and to clean! But between all of the practical considerations, there’s an equally important set of frankly quite distracting feelings regarding the […]