No, I’m exaggerating. My apartment is very reasonably sized for what I’m paying (about $600 a month) and is fine for one person. In total it is 7.5 mats-mats being a tatami mat, a traditional floor covering, which are 90×180cm (or about 1.62 square meters) in size each-or around 120 square feet total. [...]

Because I am a very smart graduate student, I arrived in Osaka about 12 hours before I was expected to start working at the consulate. No worries, spending the night without sheets or pillows coupled with jet lag meant I was awake at 5am anyway. Of course it was pouring rain and I [...]

And so begins the first day of my summer in Japan. I was driven to Detroit Metropolitan Airport by my mother and sister at the lovely time of 6:30am for my 7:44am departure on an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight operated by United. This was actually my first time ever flying another besides Northwest out [...]

Maison Sunshine #205
2-16-11 Miyakojima-hondori
Miyakojima-ku, Osaka City
534-0021 JAPAN
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What to expect from this blog:
-Overly long posts that I haven’t bothered to proofread, because they are long
-Lots of pictures because I like taking them
-Possible use of Japanese words that you have never heard before (like gaijin, conbini, etc)
-Artificially backdated posts because it might take me a week to write about going to shrine X [...]