My Year in Japan
The Beginning
My new life in Japan
- A tour of my apartment
- What I’ve got to eat
- How I get to work
- A slow news day
- Yoshowara Gion Matsuri
- 6 Months of Growing Rice
- Let’s Go To The Grocery Store
- Bicycle Life in Japan
- I live very close to a train station
- Big America Burgers
Teaching
- My first two weeks teaching in Japan
- Hair Metal Elementary
- 22 common questions I get from students, and 5 weird ones
- My first gift
- Have you seen this person?
- The ABCs in Japan
- Who’s teaching 4th period again?
- This one’s a little more straight forward
- Kyushoku: Delicious School Lunch
- A choice quote from my schedule
- 20 Differences Between the U.S. and Japanese Education Systems
- Mrs. Kramer’s Class Has Some Questions
Traveling Around Japan
- Golden Week in Tokyo
- A Quick Guide to Tokyo
- The (Inter)National Passtime
- Lake Tanuki Camping Trip
- Revisiting Lake Tanuki
- A Summer Across Japan
- Climbing Mt. Fuji: The worst day of everyone’s life
- Climbing Mt. Fuji in One Minute
- Autumn Has Arrived in Tokyo
- A Quick Guide to Kyoto
- A Kamakura Day-trip
- Nothing Beats a Good Trip
- Part 2: If It’s Koya, It Has To Be Good
- Part 3: Horse Back Riding On Mountaintops
- Snowboarding in Nagano
Various Japanese information
- Fuji
- To the North Mt. Fuji, to the South…this
- Mascots in Japan
- Pizza in Japan
- 17 subtle differences between Japan and America
- 22 more subtle differences between Japan and America
- 20 More and 3 Similarities
- One Last Hurrah, 22 More Subtle Differences Between Japan and the USA
- Summer weather in Japan
- Do Japanese Women Wear Kimonos? (For special occasions)
- A Kimono in the Wild
- First Snow on Mt. Fuji
- Christmas Colonel
- Japanese Food
Miscellaneous
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I stumbled on your blog via google and read your entire blog this afternoon. I’m trying to figure out if I should be worried or nervous about leaving my husband behind and agreeing to a 3 year contract in Japan (with many, many, MANY, perks), and I wanted to get a feel what to expect. I will be in Yokosuka (Tokyo), and while you’re quite a bit away, I found your blog to be very informative, well written, and easy to read. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I hope that if I decide to go, my experience will be pleasant. I love hiking and climbing mountains, so I now know that if in my 3 years, I make it to Mt. Fuji, to pack my SCBA. Thanks again mate. I wish you well.
Che-li
Thanks for the awesome words! 3 years is definitely a hefty contract to consider. I don’t know much about Yokosuka, only that it borders the wonderful Yokohama and is about an hour from Tokyo proper via Subway. Good luck!