Making Friends: People, Spiders and Geckoes October 29th 2006 This update is long overdue and as such will probably be very long…
My morale has sky-rocketed since my last blog entry. The fact that I haven’t written in 20 days is a good indication that I’ve been keeping busy with other things. In fact, I’ve been keeping so busy that the time has been flying by! It would probably take a long time to enumerate every weekend activity I’ve done so I ... read more
Asia » Japan » Kagoshima » Shibushi In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more