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Higashi Hongan-ji and Kyoto Tower, day and night
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Nice hidden coffee joint ☕️🇯🇵
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Kyoto alley cat
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The ๆๆฐด่ at Bukkล-ji is still running dry due to Covid precautions (Photo by my 10yo)
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On a rainy Sunday morning I got up early to take the cardboard out for the monthly pickup. Half the ็บๅ ไผ (neighborhood association) were there! (I had met some of them when we went round the neighbourhood day before yesterday to…
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Arrived in Kyoto on a very wet day
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Relocating to Kyoto
Good afternoon from Vancouver International Airport. I am at Gate D70, about to board the plane. Yes, I just got back to Canada 3 weeks ago, but thingsโฆ have been happening. In last month’s newsletter I explained why we had to…
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Unzen – Where foreigners go to hell to cool off
From a tiny speck on the horizon, the volcano slow grew as I crossed first the mud flats of Kumamoto and then the shallow waters of the Ariake Sea. Now, at the foot of the volcano, looming over the small city…
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Living “with volcano” โ a trip to Shimabara
The Shimabara Peninsula, a peninsula of a peninsula in Nagasaki prefecture, is just one of the fascinating places I travelled to in Kyushu, looking for โKyushu Firsts.โ This is where the โblack samuraiโ Yasuke first landed in Japan in 1579 and…
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Signing for more expressiveness in group video chat
Recently my kids have been exploring the differences between American Sign Language (ASL) and Japanese Sign Language (JSL). For them it is another way to explore their own bilingualism, and understand how language is tied to cultural context. I recently read…
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