BY ALI MUSKETT Saba (which, incidentally, means ‘mackerel’ in Japanese) is a 25-year-old American woman living in Kakegawa, Shizuoka. A California girl at heart, Saba loves exploring San Francisco with her friends. Back home, shops and entertainment were on her doorstep and every weekend was an opportunity to get dressed up, put on some heels, [...]
BY AIKO MIYAGI In our recent readers’ survey, many of you told us that you’d like more content related to the boonies, and we agree! To start including more content that isn’t based in Tokyo, we’re introducing what we hope will be a semi-regular column, our boonies guide. On these pages, broads living in the [...]
BY KATHLEEN SHIGEOKA I have never been to Tokyo. To be honest, I’m not sure if I ever want to go. Just the thought of me amidst all those people and buildings gives me a bad case of vertigo. I guess I have always been a small-town girl at heart. Five years ago I came [...]
BY WINNIE SHIRAISHI When I first arrived in Shizuoka Prefecture as an assistant English teacher assigned to a school in a small town, I was struck by the excitement of being in a foreign country and the apprehension of realising how completely alone I was—in terms of country, language, ethnicity, and any other category I [...]
