The G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting was held this year in Kyoto, on June 26 and 27th. The Group of Eight, consisting of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the UK, take turns hosting the different meetings and final summit, and this year it just happened to be in Japan. While [...]

I wasn’t even going to bother writing about this. But my mom has been bugging (haha get it) me for weeks-WEEKS-to mention it, and I (regrettably) have more to write about the subject as of last night at 2am.
When I moved into my apartment, I didn’t know that after the gas man had left [...]

As I type this I am breezing by central Japan at a comfy 171mph in seat 14E of the Nozomi Superexpress 155 bound for Shin-Osaka. (Well ok I finished the rest of it like two weeks later sitting on my bed…)
After work on Friday, June 20th, in the pouring rain, I hailed a cab and [...]

Heres another all picture post. A few views of downtown Osaka right near the consulate:

Can you spot the consulate? Its the gray building dead center. Look for the blue police vans parked in front.

Heres a quick geography review. This is a map of Japan:

Notice towards the center of the country, theres Osaka. It’s got a little line over the ‘o’ because technically, you should pronounce it with a long ‘o’ sound, like Oosaka. Anyway, there is where I am living right now. I live [...]

So I have been keeping pretty busy here in Japan land. I slept for about 13 hours straight this past weekend after running to Kyoto and back three days in a row working the press conference at the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting. It was exhausting but an amazing experience! Anyway, the emails [...]