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

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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

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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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