TenguLife: The curious guide to Japan

Some days go better than others. As we all know. No sleep last night and as I was dozing off at dawn I'd promised to wake my wife at 7.0...

There's something of a golden rule in Tokyo "only ever do three things in one day". I may have mentioned this before but it ru...

I quite often hear the phrase "Japan never changes" however given it is the only country in history to completely eradicate the gu...

In 1954 James A Michener published a book by the name of "Sayonara". It tells the story of a US Air Force Captain in the Korean Wa...

Having been through March 11, 2011 M9.1 earthquake and missing the Kobe event of 1995 by weeks but having friends who were directly impacted...

Last night saw one of the most spectacular thunderstorms to hit western Tokyo in many a year. "Gaspworthy" as a friend of mine put...

It takes time to make friends in Tokyo, however, when you do, you tend to keep them. I first arrived in Japan many years ago and non-Japanes...