Well, this will probably be the first and last post on my blog about something that I haven’t done personally in Japan, but I felt the need to write about it. After reading this article on CNN.com about how China is going to begin taxing disposable chopsticks because of their immense impact on the [...]

Buying food in Japan is a fairly arduous task, since there is nothing here that resembles American food, and even if I find something, reading what it is in Japanese is a difficult task. So when I do find food that I want to buy, I always bring it home and open it up [...]

Some strange things I’ve noticed so far in my first week here:
-There are vending machines for drinks almost every block, but I’ve yet to see any vending machines selling food….
-About three times a day a car with a loudspeaker on top of it drives by JCMU and blares out political messages for the upcoming election. [...]