Blog Travelling in Japan is not expensive.
I am a Japanese person who lives in Canada. I often go back to Japan to visit my family and friends. Surprisingly, there...
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Blogging and Marketing Tumblr doesn’t Work with Google Adsense Anymore, How to monetise Tumblr blogs in 2020
Tumblr is a smart platform for blogging, but it is not very straightforward if you are seeking to make money from it. I ...
Blogging and Marketing Review of Brave browser: Rural Canadian internet speed can be really crap, so I tried using Brave
Our house is in a remote area in Quebec and we have a satellite internet connection which is crap. There is no cable int...
Prose A Button Snow
The light powdery snow which started falling down when I left home, had turned into wet flaky snow when I came out f...
Blogging and Marketing “Cocoon” The best Free WordPress Theme I’ve ever used is made in Japan
Lots of bloggers love blogging on Wordpress (WP). It's easy to use and flexible for customising. There are many themes w...
Blog What is the most powerful social media in Japan?
I started writing on Medium in March 2019. I also registered on Patreon a couple of months later. So far, I have been co...
Learn Japanese What does ‘Emoiエモい’ mean?— its pronunciation and how to use it
I have lived outside of Japan for more than 10 years, so I am a slow learner of the Japanese newest words. I have to upd...
Essay You need to be who you are as a writer
Do you remember the moment when you first yourself in the mirror? I think I remember that moment, although it might have...
Essay When a poet gets transformed into a beast
This is one of my favourite fiction stories written in Japanese; ‘The Moon over the Mountain’ (Japanese title: 山月記Sanget...
Blog Sleeping in trains
I read an article about Japan which said that Japanese people don’t have enough sleep compared with other countries.
Poetry Once, I wanted to be a weaver
Once, I wanted to be a weaver.
A weaver weaves their time,
between warp and woof,
spins the thread, dyes it t...
Blog I’m Japanese, but I don’t like Manga.
Manga, which is called ‘cartoon book’ or ‘comic’ too, is one of the most popular Japanese cultures. I am proud of it as ...
Blog Can Poets survive on Medium?
Medium changed their system for calculating writer-earnings on 28th Oct. 2019, and the new system doesn't seem to work v...
Haiku Fireplace #1 暖炉の火— a Haiku
red flame
never shapes the same
ungrabbable
暖炉の火
同じ姿は
二度となく
Poetry Where is My Creativity Coming From?
Every day, every week, every month,
Plenty of things come and go, passing me by.
The sight I see, the sound I hear...
Prose Blue Stories
“C’était bleu. Complètement bleu.” said the French guy, after he had swum with the dolphins.
As soon as he had seen a b...
Prose A Dead Tree in the Wood
In spite of the beautiful weather, there was a thunder-like noise cracking in the air. It was only a single sound, and t...
Learn Japanese Trading Kanji and Language History between China and Japan
We, Japanese people, share the symbolic characters called ‘Kanji’ (‘Hanzi’ in Mandarin) with Chinese people. Children ev...