ようこそ! Welcome to my Japanese aesthetics mini-series. This is my second series to date (click here for Japanese Shorts), and I thought that this time I would dig deep and tackle a pretty hefty subject face on. I’ve been giving this subject much thought for quite a while now, and there have been a million [...]
You know what: why is it that the one thing that makes you so interested in something, is the self-same thing that can make you so blasé?
Well, this Friday I managed to take half a day off work and instead of wallowing around the house, or driving people mad via Twitter; for a change, I decided to make my day a productive one and went to the new Samsi in Spinningfields. It’s part of a chain that has developed in the [...]
Whoop, whoop! Yes, you heard it right: Japanese Shorts is now available through the beautiful iTunes. So, click the banner above and you’ll be taken to the podcast stream (keep away from the fish, they bite a bit..)
Well, if you ever find yourself stuck in the monsoon rain, outside Tokyo train station waiting for a bus, then Lesson 2 in the Japanese Shorts series is really going to sort you out. Otherwise, teach them to your grandmother, she’ll love them, I’m sure.. Don’t forget to leave a comment AND, check out Japanese [...]
Esteemed readers, your advice, please. Pray tell, why do technical difficulties always haunt a new operation? Why is it that at the exact moment that you decide to start a new project, the doors fall off, the petrol empties and before you know it, your being pulled over for an out-of-date tax disk?