It’s official. Today, the Mongolian born sumo wrestler known as Hakuho was promoted to professional sumo’s highest rank, Grand Champion, or Yokozuna. Hakuho becomes the sports 69th Yokuzuna and joins fellow Mongolian wrestler Asashoryu at the pinnacle of Japan’s national sport. The means that the Hawaii Grand Sumo Tournament will be the first […]
I’m always surprised at how people react to my blog posts. In an earlier post, I made a brief mention about how much we loved the Combi Zeus-Turn car seat we bought in Japan and brought back to America. After that post, I noticed a very high level of buzz about the car seat so […]
Do you really know your sushi. How to eat it, how to order it and what’s the proper etiquette associated with Japan’s gift to world cuisine. Please watch this instructional video and tell me what you make of it (it’s in Japanese, but has English sub-titles). My Japanese friends love this. But I’d like to […]
As a couple, my wife and I spent many trips exploring the ins and outs of Japan. With a JR Rail Pass, and we’d be zipping around on the shinkansen (bullet train) looking for the Japan you don’t see in the travel guides. And then…we had a child. Not letting the baby cramp our style, […]
In September 2006 we got the call from the adoption agency in Japan that we had been paired with a 5 month old baby girl. That call kicked off a whirlwind of activity for us and I thought some people might find useful if I documented some of what we did.
If you’re adopting from Japan, […]
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