For reasons unknown, I woke especially early – around 6:30am. At 9:45 I walked downstairs to the breakfast buffet in the hotel lobby while Justin & Scott slept
Since we qualified for only two free breakfast recipients, this morning Scott & Justin went for the morning meal while I remained in the room researching the relevance
Monday morning in Tokyo was cloudy but still warm. Justin, Scott, and I took the shuttle bus from the Hilton Hotel to Shinjuku Station. Once at the station
As written by New York Magazine, “But, as the internet is finding out today, tanuki are real, and they’re spectacularly cute.” Wait a minute! Was there ever, even
While this video clip isn’t brand new, it may still be enlightening to many of you. After all, it’s a window into contemporary Japanese culture, and Funassyi has
Japan, and Tokyo in particular, has developed a unique, and by American standards, odd, tremendously advanced social and technological culture of enabling millions of tightly packed humans to