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1. Grilled Fish
Bright winter sun and icy morning. The smell of grilled fish assaults me on my way to work. I close ...
2. The taste of sweet potato
In 1998, I had chosen to study at Keio University. I do not remember having signed a contract to become ...
3. My well-worn robe
Glossy and bright morning in Hong Kong. Our whole family slept with big socks and an extra duvet. I am ...
4. Hachijo-jima
An island between the sky and the water.
An island with neither men nor boats.
An island between the sky and the ...
5. The amazing beauty of Koya-san
There is a place in the Japan where time has stopped, a place where it is easy to imagine oneself ...
6. Snow country
When I arrived in Japan, language difficulties locked me in a silence I had never experienced before and without any ...
8. Kyomizu-dera, the temple of the extreme
The Kyomizu-dera is my favorite temple. It is a Buddhist temple situated in Kyoto. Some may weep before the Ginkakuji, ...
9. Roppongi and the Yakuza
In the winter of 1999, I was working very hard during the day at the bank and living dangerously at ...
10. Yuzu bath
The current typhoon striking Taiwan has indirectly affected us. It sent us a soaring heat, causing records that Hong Kong ...
11. The taste of soba in the middle of summer
It was summer 1997 and my first one in Japan. High temperature records were reached in Osaka. In Hirakata-shi, a ...
12. Make-up in the land of the rising sun
Before I lived with the Sano family in Hirakata, I first lived for a couple of months with the Sakakibara ...
13. Hina matsuri
Mrs. Sano, my Japanese mother called me yesterday to check on us. She reminded me that the doll festival Hina ...
14. Brushing up my Japanese
I managed to get some holidays to visit my Japanese family at the end of next week. It is a ...
15. Gathering
The woman sitting in the reception of the hotel may seem familiar. She looks like a grandmother. She carries on ...
16. Aquarium
I tried to romanticize the rainy season last week to the Australian of my heart and I have been truly ...