The cherry blossoms are starting to bloom in the western Japan. Today, they bloomed in Otsu, Shiga prefecture. Finally, spring has come to Japan. I have mixed feelings about this. The cherry blossoms are very beautiful and they are symbol …

Last Friday was the 11th of March and it was the sad anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. It has been eleven years since that disaster. Many people died and many people are still missing, we don’t know what happened to them. Tho…

We took a ski trip to Gifu prefecture last weekend. On Saturday, it was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the groomed ski slopes at the Funayama resort. We stayed at a Japanese style hotel with natural hot springs called the Hirayu Onsen and …

On 24th February, Russia invaded Ukraine. I feel terrible, because many people have died there and also the war will affect the Japanese econmy. The war makes us unhappy. Stop the war immediately! Nobody benefits from fighting.