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Posted on February 24th, 2010

A Kentucky Calamity

Food is definitely one of the more ubiquitous conversation topics in Japan.  Over here, people are in love with food, and they’re always looking for new and different flavors to try. Tokyo is a veritable Smörgåsbord of multi-cultural cuisine, with almost any kind of food you can imagine available. I could probably go on for hours detailing all the new and wonderful ingestible sensations I’ve been exposed to over here. But I won’t. Today’s topic is fast food.

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Posted on February 16th, 2010

A Blast in the Past

Living in Tokyo for any length of time tends to instill certain expectations in a person. For example, I have come to expect a great variety of fascinating things to do and see wherever I go. Another expectation I have is that each of these places will have already been filled with enough people to populate a small nation by the time get there. It was with this surprisingly erroneous expectation that I, along with my wife and a friend, embarked on a trip to Ise.

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