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- Introducing ‘Kiso Valley Diary’ – A Blog About Life in Japan March 4, 2020
- Life in Japan #3: 13 Reasons Why You Should Learn Kanji July 29, 2019
- Life in Japan #2: Thoughts on Studying Kanji, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Needlessly Complicated Japanese Logographic Writing System July 22, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #10: Vampyr (Part Ten – Vampire Rats) July 21, 2019
- Life in Japan #1: Spending Time With the In-laws July 13, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #9: Vampyr (Part Nine – Whoso Eateth My Flesh) July 9, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #8: Vampyr (Part Eight – Funeral Bites) June 30, 2019
- Is the Indie Game Development Scene ‘Stagnant’? (and other questions whose answer is ‘No’) June 7, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #7: Vampyr (Part Seven – Redmail in Redchapel) May 26, 2019
- One Thousand And One Nights: A Patreon Reward Game May 23, 2019
Category Archives: Japan
Let’s Nagoya – Part 3: Racism!
This is kind of a tough topic. As anyone who’s brushed up on their internet will know, any time you write something about a controversial subject the entire internet will immediately descend to call you a bastard. Approximately half your audience will do so because … Continue reading
Sorted, Mate: A Foreigner’s Guide to Japanese Communal Baths
I recently went to a sentō (a Japanese communal bath) for the first time. I went to Funaoka Onsen (‘onsen’ meaning ‘hot spring’ in Japanese, though it’s often just used as a synonym for sentō), in north-western Kyoto. And while it … Continue reading
Let’s Nagoya – 犬山市 (Dog Mountain City), or, Reflections in Dog Mountain City
On the first weekend of April every year, Inuyama-shi (or Dog Mountain City) holds its Spring festival. Inuyama is about a half-hour train ride north of Nagoya, and, working on the weekends as we do, we only managed to arrive after sundown. As such we … Continue reading
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