Thoughts

I suppose  I came to Japan in search of some cultural quintessence.  You would think to look in a place like Kyoto, where you can look arou...

There are vending machines everywhere in Japan.  And you know what they say about vending machines... where there's one, there are many:...

On the way back from Kyoto, I stopped in Nagoya to visit Nagoya Castle and Atsuta Shrine. The latter is a quiet, leafy place with large ...

It's an old cliché that we don't see the sights of our own cities.  When I survey the teenage years I lived in Kyoto, I realize tha...

I depart Newark at eleven a.m. and fourteen hours later I stand across the Pacific in Tokyo.  I've travelled for as long as I can reme...