BY ELISE MORI OF STAR TAROT * New! * I do Skype readings! Book one now at http://star-tarot.net/skype A Tarotscope is a blend of horoscope and a one-card Tarot reading, using the Astrological Tarot Spread. This week I’ve used Marie White’s Mary-el Tarot. Aries. Position 3. The Hanged Man: The Hanged Man card is all [...]

The International School of the Sacred Heart invites friends and families to join them at their Family Festival on Thursday, April 20 from 10am–4pm. The 34th annual edition of the festival will highlight the many nationalities and cultures that make Tokyo the diverse and vibrant community it is. Enjoy food stalls offering traditional cuisine from [...]

BY HEATHER SHIDA (image to left: flickr.com / kanko*) April is here and that means back-to-school! Everywhere you go you can hear the oddly disturbing song that declares that a child has become a first-grader and hopes to have one hundred friends. For stores, it is one of the busiest times of year. Not only [...]

BY ELISE AT STAR TAROT *New!* I do Skype readings! Book one now here. A Tarotscope is a blend of horoscope and a one-card Tarot reading, using the Astrological Tarot Spread. This week I’ve used The Aquarian Tarot by David Palladini. Aries. Position 12. Page of Pentacles A young man or woman comes into your [...]

Love origami but not sure how to decode the complicated instructions found in books? Having trouble visualising just what a valley fold is as compared to a mountain fold? Thanks to Heather, an American woman who has been living in Japan for 14 years, origami can be entirely possible for all of us! She creates [...]

BY HEATHER SHIDA Graduation is a strange time in Japan. It is celebrated at every level of school. I don’t recall having any graduation ceremony, really, except for when I was in high school and university. We have a celebration here for graduating from kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, and university. To say [...]

BY ELISE Sorry it’s late this week everyone, I was struck down by a lurgy. Meanwhile, back in the saddle, this week’s Tarotscopes have been cast using the epic Mary-el deck, by Marie White. Enjoy!  A Tarotscope is a blend of horoscope and a one-card Tarot reading, using the Astrological Tarot Spread. Aries. Position 9. [...]

Full name: Elise Mori Age: 45 Nationality: British and French Grew up in: Central London Time in Japan: Total nine years ( three plus six years) Japanese level: upper intermediate Do you use Japanese in your tarotscopes or other work?  I can give in-person Tarot readings in Japanese but email readings in Japanese are still [...]

BY RIANNA HOLLAND At times, it might be hard to live in Japan as a foreign resident, but at least we have the comfort of knowing that were are not the first to do so, and that we are not alone in our experiences. Isabella L. Bird, however, did not have the reassurance of such [...]

BY LEIGH WELLSVIEW For BAB’s own ‘American Housewife in Japan,’ Heather Shida, the inspiration to actually sit down and commit the time to write her first E-book The True Stories of Dream Fairies: Bloom, came from an unlikely source: “To be honest, I was playing SIMS 3 and I had my character learning a new [...]