Paris welcome early last month was not that heart-warming: winter-like temperatures and a lock down. The weather has been getting nicer over the past few weeks, the lock down is Continue Reading
2020 has been a strange year and so far it looks like it will continue so until the end… I definitely do not need to explain you what that means. Continue Reading
Did you know that you can take a flight or a ferry from Tokyo and after your journey still end up in Tokyo? As big, crowded and grey city it Continue Reading
Everyone knows the Little Prince, I am sure, you too. If I told you that there is only one museum in the world that is dedicated to the Little Prince, Continue Reading
14th century Italy, ten young men and women flee Florence to protect from the Black Death or plague epidemics, and find a shelter in a remote villa in the countryside. Continue Reading
Someone once said that when you spend a month in a foreign country and culture, you are likely to want to write a book, having spent at least six months Continue Reading
You may remember the movie “The Last Samurai”, where Tom Cruise was playing a US captain who joins to fight alongside the last samurais in Japan. What you may not Continue Reading
A conversation in the office after the Golden Week (as you may know, Japan had a record long Golden Week this year given the change of the Emperor and the Continue Reading
While spring has been slowly arriving to Japan, bringing the annual round of changes (those who work in Japan and Japanese companies will understand), I squeezed in an opportunity for Continue Reading
Coming back after long holiday is always tough, even more so if this marks the start of yet another year and carries the weight of the widely common “new year, Continue Reading