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Volunteer activity in the tsunami-hit area

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Disaster landscape

In November 2011, I spent a month volunteering in Iwate Prefecture, one of the areas affected by the tsunami.

The photo is the view of the former Tsukiji Market site in Tokyo from the northwest

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Why 'socialise' is a foreign concept in Japan: A Japanese perspective

This week in Small Business Japan (24 Nov, 2024) When I went to the UK to study for a Master's degree, I came across the word 'socialise'. I think it was in a booklet for new students, which said something like, 'Let's be

Ryan , an Irish bar in Tokyo owner, offers advice to foreigners hoping to open a restaurant in Japan

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Wonderful restaurants inevitably become 'neverland diners', and that's okay

This week in Small Business Japan (16 Nov, 2024) The Japanese book Neverland Diner: At That Restaurant I Can Never Go to Again (Edited by Kyoichi Tsuzuki, 2021, the original title in Japanese 'Neverland Diner – 二度と行けないあの店で') is a unique 'guidebook' to vanished restaurants and bars. It