Meanwhile, in Japan

About 1300 years ago there may or may not have lived a man named En no Gyoja. If he did live, he may have written a document entitled Sutra on the Unlimited Life of the Threefold Body. Assuming both of these to be true, En no Gyoja founded a system of spiritual and ascetic . . . → Read More: Have you ever seen Conan the Barbarian? It’s kind of like that.

“Do you find it hard to make friends here?”

One of my buddies and I were having dinner at an Indian/Nepalese restaurant when he decided to engage the staff in conversation. The manager, a gentleman of some experience in the world, answered the question thoroughly and fired back with his own.

“Which feels safer, Japan or . . . → Read More: Fear and Learning in Yamanashi

. . . → Read More: this is what happens at the Fujikiri festival

I’m not sure of the reason, perhaps because it’s finally spring, but the subject of romantic entanglements has been popular in conversation recently. Since I’m currently at the age where a great many of my peers are tying the knot and/or birthing offspring, it makes for an interesting cultural study of rural Japan.

Lacking any . . . → Read More: “It’s a Trap!” or “Let’s Try to Remember That I’m in the West Virginia of Japan”