Konichiwa!  Well I have finally made it to the start of my adventure in Japan which is awesome but there have been a few glitches.  I finally have a temporary internet connection but it’s not on my computer so you won’t be hearing from me regularily until next week.
So let me recap things so far:

The […]

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Now that we are getting closer to the start of exhibition games in Japan I thought it would be a good time to educate everyone with some Japanese Baseball Terminology.
Let me start by saying that in Japan you will hear the term Pro-Yakyuu a lot. This is short for Professional Yakyuu with Yakyuu meaning baseball.
One […]

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Yesterday I told you how I was feeling as if I was in a holding pattern waiting for my Japan adventure to start. and how my home consisted of loosely labeled piles sort of ready for packing.
Well, I’ve realized that the carry-on/technology pile is going to make me really popular in the the security line […]

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I leave for Japan in a little less than a week but feel as though I am in a holding pattern. My husband has been in Japan for almost a month and I have been holding down the fort at home and preparing for the trip.
I can’t wait to get to Japan and […]

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This weekend I had the privilege of seeing Barefoot in the Park, a play by Neil Simon, at the Diamond Head Theater in Honolulu. Here is a line spoken by the Corie Bratter character in the play to her husband:
…There are watchers in this world,and there are doers. And the watchers sit […]

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Spring Training for Japanese professional baseball has been underway since February 1st and for the first time in many years all of the teams will remain in Japan for Spring Training. This is a full two weeks ahead of MLB where most teams pitchers and catchers reported today.In the MLB spring training is divided […]

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I have always wanted to visit the Tsukiji Fish Market in Japan and it was one of the things that I never got around to doing the last time I was in Japan. Now it appears that it may be too late for me to get to see the tuna auction in action. […]

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Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were overwhelmed or numb? Our emotions can sneak up on us and can live on well after the event that inspired them.
…It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right time. They didn’t come at all when you set a place […]

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This post is the second in my weekly series on Japanese baseball. The first post was an overview of the Nippon Professional Baseball League and this post will provide you with some information on the minor league system.
We hear a lot about the major leagues in Japan but relatively little about the minor leagues […]

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I have recently come across an interesting concept to keep me in books while I am in Japan. In preparation for my stay I have been hoarding books like crazy. Why? Because English books in Japan aren’t cheap. BookCrossing is a new site where you can leave your books in a […]

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