The Tsubame Spring festival is on this weekend! Are you going to go? I like the food stalls. I especially like fried chicken, shaved ice...

Last weekend we noticed praying mantises in our garden. Actually, we first saw them on our back door! I love them. 3 years ago we had a...

It is THAT time of year.... The mosquitoes started biting! This is something difficult about Japan. There are lots of mosquitoes here and...

It's Golden Week in Japan! Golden week is a week in late-April and early-May that has 4 public holidays close together. So, we get some...

Last week, we went to Mother. Mother is a cafe in Yoshida. It is close to Marui. It is a lovely cafe above a flower shop. The carpark...

We went strawberry picking last week. We saw the nice weather and went! The strawberry farm is in Tsubame, near Yoshida. We picked a...

The life-sized Gundam robot in Yokohama shut down for the last time last month. There was a big closing ceremony to celebrate. It was...

The old Harashin in Higashiota will be a Don Quijote! Harashin closed a few months ago. We were excited. What will it be??! The answer...

Which chocolatey biscuit do you like? Are you a Take no Ko no Sato-fan or a Kinoko no Yama-fan? Which is best? There can be only one!...

According to a recent study, everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531! In Japan, married couples must have the same name. Japan is...

English is becoming the dominant language. English is widely used in business and academic papers. In 2011, Belgian philosopher Philippe...

T-rex (tyrannosaurus rex) races are held worldwide, but did you know also in Japan? I didn't know and I think it is wonderful. There was...

23 Japanese words have been added to the Oxford English dictionary. This means they are so frequently used in English that they are now...

On Sunday 24th of March the Course des Cafés (or Cafe Race in English) was held in Paris, France. Waiters raced with a coffee, croissant...

Sheboygan and Tsubame are celebrating 25 years of Sister City status. The local library will have a special exhibition to show cultural...

Japanese TV is world famous, famous for being crazy. There are parts of Japanese programmes that are shown and talked about around the...

You use Google, right? Probably every day. You probably use it without thinking about it. Search engines are best when there is almost...

I worked in a very nice hotel in Austria and many famous footballers came to stay as it was a very beautiful quiet place in the...

Some of my students have answered the question “Do you think you need to study English?” and I was pleased by most of the answers. But...

I passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験) level N2! I am super happy to have passed. I thought that I had done OK after...