Month: February 2019

Visiting the real-life setting of ‘The Legend of Zelda’  The Telegraph

In my mind’s eye, Japanese culture is like Janus, the Roman god who looks to both the past and the future.

The Grasshopper’s Japan Weekly Forecast – Switch into spring mode and cut some shapes in the sun  Mountainwatch

It looks as though spring has come a little early in Japan this year as the prevailing NW winds we see during winter appear to be faltering.

Japan sees record number of foreign visitors for January – The Jakarta Post  Jakarta Post

The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in January increased 7.5 percent from a year earlier to 2689400, an all-time high for the month, supported by …

Japan’s new microwavable potato chips are amazing, but the best thing isn’t how they taste  SoraNews24

We taste-test a revolution in potato chips, and realize that something important has been missing all along.

MUSINGS / Feb. 8, 2019  The Japan News

The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Feb. 8 issue.

J.J. Adams: Teen Simon says he feels more like a part of the Whitecaps now  The Province

“I came in this year with a fighting mentality; there’s a lot of new players, a new coaching staff, so I just came in with an open mind and the mentality of proving to …

J.J. Adams: Teen Simon says he feels more like a part of the Whitecaps now  The Province

“I came in this year with a fighting mentality; there’s a lot of new players, a new coaching staff, so I just came in with an open mind and the mentality of proving to …