If you are travelling to Japan and looking for a reliable mobile wifi device, then Ninja Wifi is the one to get. It’s the one I travel...

Do you pray gorufu? This question from Nojima-san took me a little by surprise. GOLF or "GORUFU" as it is pronounced in Japanese, is...

"Do you have Japanese Warking Man Jacket?" Nojima-san enquired. What on earth is a "Warking Man"?, I thought to myself. "No" would...

The next morning Kondo-san woke me up and we had some breakfast. He announced that he was taking me to my “new house”. “You’re going to...

We landed in Tokyo late in the evening and things didn’t go so well. It was to be a valuable insight into the organisational skills of...

What have I done! These words rang in my ears for the next few days. When I visited my parents the next day to give them the news that I...

It was 1990 and the “recession that we had to have” was starting to bite. Many of my architect friends had lost their jobs in previous...

Sadly 2020 was not the year to visit Japan to see the fabled cherry blossoms. Let’s hope that we can all travel again in 2021 and enjoy...

The brilliant colours of the autumn leaves in Japan create a spectacular backdrop when travelling around Japan during the season. It...