Frog's Glen

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The point of fishing may not be fishing
And sometimes schools of mackerel laugh at you
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Have a seat. It's your living room.
Most towns in Japan, even the dustier nooks of the big metropolises, still have a family-run eatery. The plastic menu'd and microwave-food conglomerates…
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A Warren of Smoke
And food (carefully) thrust at you on a long paddle
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Rub-a-dub-dub with the neighbors
My first apartment in Japan didn’t have a bath, so like many in the neighborhood I went to the public baths every night. This was our town square.
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The Setting Sun of the Seto Inland Sea
Hajime Yamaura and his wife Kasumi moved from the rush and costs of Nagoya City back to her family’s uninhabited and decaying home high in the hills of…
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Snickerers
There are three old clowns who “work” at the Ueno Rice Center about a kilometer from here. They laugh at me and my dog.
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Ask Mr. Noguchi
Our editor addresses Japanese issues that matter to you
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Japan's summer is now named Curtis
And he's pissed.
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Want to live in Japan? Learn the calendar.
Never do a tiling job in July, dummy. Always put a bowl of tangerines out in December.
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A Seventh Century Pyre
Consider starting this tradition in your own community pronto
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The Glen 'kicks up the jam'
Too bad our rural Japanese town's annual matsuri hasn't changed since 1400.
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A visit from my dad?
Obon is a late-summer string of days and nights in Japan in which the spirits of dead relatives come back to visit with the living.
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