It’s strawberry season in Japan!

Strawberry Season- Matsubushi town in Saitama

It’s cold, usually just above zero degrees every day just like any Kanto plain (Greater Tokyo) area weather. For most places, berries are a June or July delight, but in Japan it’s January! Get our and enjoy a local strawberry farm. It’s the best time of the year for flavor

Welcome Dec 1st Winter!

Sunrise North of Tokyo

Welcome Winter! First day of the last month of 2020. What a weird year. Pandemic, plan-demic, scam-demic, we’ll find out soon enough.

Great to be alive and well! A prosperous Dec to you all!

A Local Casualty- Candy Shop Closed In Tokyo’s Nihonbashi

Once a bustling candy shop

The virus fears for Wuhan Corona Virus COVID-19 has taken its toll on small businesses in Japan. With just over 1/3 of the deaths this year that influenza had last year, it has definitely been overblown by the media and others who have sought to stoke virus fears.

Very sad to see all the businesses decimated by the fear. Recovery coming soon!

Would you line up at an Apple Store?

Apples retail store in Tokyo’s Ginza District

Apple, currently the most valuable company in the world has stores around the globe. In Japan alone they must have 12.

You can buy their stuff anywhere. Would you line up to get into their store? These people in Tokyo’s Ginza district are.