TenguLife: The curious guide to Japan

At 2.46PM on March 11, 2011 my office began to shake. Some five minutes later it stopped and we could all stand again. There is a universe o...

After all these years in Japan, and living in the same area for many of them, we gratefully feel we're part of the local community in ma...

Give or take, the second Monday of January is "everyone's" twentieth birthday here. It's actually a National Holiday and t...

So how did the year go... Well, I have a friend in Tokyo who, earlier this year, managed to win the lottery for Oasis tickets at Wembley (Lo...

The year end fast approaches, and where has it all gone? The weather in Tokyo sucks and soon we'll be queuing for our tickets for the qu...

That means something to some and nothing to others, but, put simply, it's getting cold (mid-November now, time to dig the woolies out). ...

It's been a funny summer / autumn in Tokyo. Weather was hotter than the surface of the sun and when it went down, I had a week before sw...