October 2016

Hiroshima, What We Think About It Now

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum My friends suggest to me that the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum depicts an omniscient view of the war, not one-sided, that it was well done. I think I’m missing something. Or maybe I’m expecting more, like the omniscient view that Japan played a hostile role in World War II. It isn’t that kind of omniscient. It’s omniscient in that it

Miyajima, Torii Gate At Sea

Miyajima Island houses the Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is very accessible from Hiroshima. I use the JR Seishun 18 Pass* to get there, and it allows me to take the JR ferry across as well! *Seishun 18 Pass provides 5 days of unlimited JR rides. They do not need to be consecutive days,

Friends of Fukuyama

About ten years ago my friend Lil asked if JM and I were interested in volunteering to be language partners. I said yes, and that’s how I met Miyuki and Michiko, two Japanese international students. The funny thing is neither Miyuki nor Michiko was my language partner; they were Lil’s and JM’s language partners. My

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