While last year I celebrated the New Year in European style, this year I did it the Japanese way. For the following it is important to note that this is Masumi’s family and their way of celebrating New Year. In various regions of Japan the ingredients, dishes, order etc. are completely different and I am not [...]
For those of you, who pitied me for having to work on the 25th and 26th this month: don’t. Even though this great event does not exist as such in Japan, they created their own, distinctively Japanese version of it. Much more interesting in a way. So what is different? Christmas here is thought to be [...]
As there are quite a few Germans living in Tokyo, there is a reasonable presence of churches. So, albeit they are hidden and hard to find for the regular tourist, every year all of us poor, homesick Germans are informed by the German Society, the Embassy or other means of the christmas markets and their locations. [...]
Thanks to Masumi, her colleagues and friends, I could enjoy a fabulous Japanese BBQ in Nasu. yesterday afternoon. The whole day was quite normal for locals in terms of how the BBQ was planned. For my German readers, it will sound rather strange.
We go up at 6am, took the train at 7am, met up with [...]