There is an opening. Yesterday, Terry Collins announced his resignation as manager of the Orix Buffaloes, formerly the Orix Blue Wave, and the original team of Ichiro Suzuki. Pitching coach Mike Brown and batting coach John Debus also resigned. An interim managed has been named from within the coaching staff.
Collins led the […]

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After almost two weeks of rainy, cool and cloudy weather the sun has finally come out and it feels like spring - yeah!  I have been a little under the weather lately and haven’t kept my promise of checking out a new site each week lately so it’s time to pull out my map of […]

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Can you imagine being woken up by an earthquake and lying there wondering how bad it’s going to be? Well that’s what happened to us around 1AM this morning! It’s not like we haven’t felt an earthquake since we arrived in Japan - at least once or twice a week you get […]

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Today while surfing the web I came across an article on Bloomberg that was reporting on a recent trend of suicides utilizing a gas called hydrogen sulfide. This is a serious concern in Japan as innocent bystanders have been injured by these gas fumes. As a matter of ethics I will not provide […]

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Yesterday I had my hair cut in Japan for the first time since our last time living here over ten years ago.  It was the best haircut ever, well, not the hair cut exactly but the whole experience.
My appointment was at 11AM and I was scheduled for a cut and color.  The staff spoke a […]

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As most of you know, I have started to write for other blogs.  While I want to share everything here it just doesn’t make sense to create posts that just force you to click onto another site.  I hate those kind of posts and I don’t want to subject you to them any more that […]

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Today I’m going to let you in on one of my not so well kept secrets!  I LOVE BUTTER and I’m not ashamed to say it!  I don’t need an intervention I just need to figure out what I can do to fix the butter shortage in Japan.
Due to the shortage, I have been on […]

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There’s not a lot new in my world lately. I haven’t been out and about very much this week for no particular reason except that the weather hasn’t been cooperating. It’ hasn’t been too cold or too rainy, just rather overcast and with a bit of an overall haze/smog which is a […]

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….when you have Kleenex sticking out of your nose!  But that’s just how Hideo Higashikokubaru, a one-time comedian using the stage name Sonomanma Higashi, and currently the Governor of Miyazaki prefecture in southern Japan, is portrayed on this tissue box cover.

I found this product while browsing through my local mall and just couldn’t stop […]

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…or I should say an “e-re-be-ta” apology. This one is for my Dad…
When I got into the elevator today this sign was posted. You don’t need to know how to read Japanese to figure out that on April 24th they will be working on the elevator from 10-12PM.
That’s good information to have and […]

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