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15 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Yatsushiro is known for being Japan’s top producer of tomatoes. That’s my daughter inspecting the quality of the tomatoes. However, not all Yatsushiro farmers are tomato farmers. Some of them grow lettuce. 🥬 I had the pleasure of watching them h...
12 Dec 2024 1 minute read 18 comments kubo kazuya
Since I cannot become someone else, I can only see the world from my own perspective. I don't even know if the scenery I see is real, but my emotions are certainly there. In fact, I can assert that nothing else can be definitively known. Therefore,...
11 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Foreigners assume that Japan is a homogeneous country, but the Japanese themselves recognise how different they are from their counterparts in the other 46 prefectures. I love watching this show to learn about the idiosyncratic dishes, customs and ha...
10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Navigating the rush hour in Tokyo yesterday made me realise I could teach my son a Chinese idiom: 人山人海. 人山人海 (rén shān rén hǎi) literally means ‘people mountain people sea’. Since the collocation ‘a sea of people’ exists in English, you ca...
6 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments kubo kazuya
The culture of "Read the air!" in Japan could be described as ultra high-context in English. Because Japan is an island nation with no escape, it becomes difficult to live if one is targeted by a group. To avoid being targeted, people become sensiti...
4 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
The sakana bento from Sakana Bacca was the most delicious meal I ate during my short stay in Tokyo. You probably don’t understand the explanation. I only know the gist of it too. Basically it means that this bento was made of ingredients produced...
3 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments logen9f
Diver City in Odaiba is located east of Tokyo. It's a huge shopping mall in a man-made island. We visited it in my first trip to Japan. It was March 2018 and winter season is not yet over. The day before, we went skiing for us to experience snow. Th...
29 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments logen9f
I don't ride boats often...I don't ride boats at all. It's not that I hate it, it's just living in the Philippine city where there are not many lakes and rivers, boats are not a usual mode of transportation. For me riding boats is not for transporta...
31 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Washoku (Japanese cuisine) is so delectable that it is recognised as a UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. This begs the question of how it came to be such a famous cuisine globally! China was the first nation to influence Japan during trading...
22 Oct 2024 5 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
I’m tasked to introduce popular Japanese food items to my school’s seventh graders after their final year exams next Monday. So this is what I came up with while working on the PPT slides. Maybe you will learn a thing or two. Ohayo gozaimasu. This i...
