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This week has been extraordinarily hot and humid. This happens every summer we stay in Japan (always late July or early August), but needless to say we’re deep in summer heat now.
Traditionally this is what’s called the “Ox Doyō” (丑土用) period of the old lunar calendar, which falls around July 26th this year. In Eng...
OK, where do I begin?
The family and I go to Japan every summer (if possible) to stay with relatives, help the kids learn Japanese, enjoy good food and experiences, etc. My wife’s family lives near Tokyo in Kanagawa Prefecture so we generally stay ...
Sooner or later we all die. But after we are dead, how will people view us?
Linhardt: “If I didn’t like them when they were alive, then why pretend to do so when they are no longer here?”Linhardt from Fire Emblem Three Houses
Something fun for the upcoming Obon season: I recently read about an old superstition in Japan called tsukumo-gami (付喪神, but more commonly as 九十九神), which requires a bit of explanation. The idea is that household items that have been used over a long time, eventually become imbued with a
The hit Nintendo game Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a very simple plot, but a very rich world to explore.
The kingdom of Hyrule, where most (if not all) Legend of Zelda games take place, is a civilization with a very long, rich history stretching millenia. But in Breath of the Wild, the kingdom has at last been destroyed. This incarnatio...