I may have fallen into the ‘its foreign so it looks cool’ trap with this photo. The same trap that tricks people in the West into getting tattoos in Japanese or Chinese, because it looks quirky or interesting. I feel a little better however, that people fall into the same trap in Japan but in […]

One of the schools I teach at is on an island called Mishima. It is a ferry away and the crossing is renowned for being rough. Sure enough, I was treated to a windy day and the sea threw me around for 70 minutes, occasionally lashing me with water. The island seemed like somewhere a […]