Climate Change in Ehime
By Tim Van Gardingen For a cloudy day in January, it is strikingly warm in Matsuyama city. Matsuyama is the largest city on Shikoku, Japan’s smallest main island. Usually the […]
Matsuyama Hanami Picnic 2019
Join us for a picnic Saturday March 23rd at Dogo Park. We’ll be enjoying flowers and food from about 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Please bring your own food and drinks! […]
AJET Welcome Dinner 2019
We have a new JET! Let’s welcome her with dinner at Everest Nepalese Restaurant on Okaido. We’ll be meeting March 15th after the BOE meeting. Please say your going on […]
Feast Or Famine: Being an ALT in a Senior High School
By Jordan Rocke For this article, I tried to thing of an interesting perspective I could provide here. In the past, I’ve talked with some first year Primary or Junior […]
Stonewall Ice Skate 2019
Looking Back, Moving Forward: My Day as a Samurai at Matsuyama Castle
By Joshua Hill I woke up this Christmas Eve with a new anticipation. Instead of performing the traditional caroling and cookie decorating with my family, back in America, I would […]
Why Japan is Scared to Fix Overwork Culture
By Tim van Gardingen On an empty train station platform in rural Japan, there is a poster pasted on the wall with a message in imposing red letters: “Stop Karoshi!” […]
VR Zone Shinjuku: Top 3 Experiences
By Niall Magee Last December I went to VR Zone Shinjuku, a virtual reality park in Tokyo, for the second time. It opened in July 2017 and will be closing […]
The Nightmare of Names
By Tim van Gardingen What’s in a name? Or, in the case of Japan, what on earth is the name in the first place? I found out the hard way […]