#japanUnmoderated tagAll postsTrendingHotNewPromotedPayoutshirohurl in #hive-163772 • 2 days agoNew Year Sunshine and Snow at Gero Hot Springs, Japan▶️ Watch on 3Speak I was up bright and early on New Year's Day at Gero Hot Spdbooster in #hive-133974 • 4 days agoToday in Japan - The Meiji Restoration and Ryōma’s Quiet Shadow Today in Japanese history, January 3 marks the formal beginning of the Meiji Restoration. In 1868, on thisdbooster in #hive-148441 • 5 days agoHappy New Year 2026, Part II — Enter the Fire Horse Another year turns over, and with it comes a zodiac sign that carries more cultural baggage than most. A few years ago I started these looks at the new year using the East…hirohurl in #hive-163772 • 3 days agoHappy New Year of the Fire Horse from Onsenji Temple, Japan▶️ Watch on 3Speak I saw in the New Year at Onsenji Temple in **Gero Onsedbooster in #hive-161465 • 6 days agoHappy New Years 2026! Happy New Year, everyone! It is Jan 1st here on this side of the world. We welcomed the New Year a few hours ago with the traditional singing contest on TV, then I ran out to the…nyc925 in #haiku • last yearFallen Butterfly ~ Haiku of Japan落花枝にかへると見れば胡蝶哉 rakka eda ni kaeru to mireba kochoo kana fallen blossom returning to the branch? ah, no—a butterfly —Moritake (trans. David LaSpina ) That is, me…hirohurl in #alive • 5 months agoJoin Me As I Hang Out at a Local Summer Street Festival Somwhere in Hiroshima!This is summer 2025 in Rakurakuen (楽々園), a suburb in the western outskirts of Hiroshima, Japan - my neck of the woods. The festival is run by the local traders and it's one of my favhirohurl in #alive • last yearThe Rainman, the Frog, and the ... Willow! 🐸Earlier this week I blogged about receiving a souvenir "frog-bun" ("kaeru manju") from a student who had just come back from a trip to Nagoya. In the blog post, which you can…hirohurl in #alive • last yearRobert Greene's "Daily Law" for Today: "Change is the Law"The sky was leaden with clouds today, Epiphany 2025, but as the rain held off I went out for a walk with the intention of doing a 90 second dead-hang in a park, but when I got there some gevih in #fiction • last yearThe Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawasource This was such a sweet and endearing experience. I totally fell in love with the characters and how intimate the MC and the pdbooster in #hive-101690 • last yearThe 50/50 ClubYesterday in the Dodgers game against the Marlins, Shohei Ohtani joined a very exclusive club, a club of exactly one (himself): the 50/50 club. 50 homeruns and 50 steals. This…dbooster in #hive-101690 • 2 months agoOhtani’s Historic Night: Three Homers, Ten Strikeouts, One for the Ages I daresay most of the people on Hive don’t care about baseball. I love baseball. This post is about baseball — so feel free to turn away. I won’t be hurt.dbooster in #hive-101690 • 5 months agoThe Great Bambino vs ShotimeFor a century, Babe Ruth stood alone as the Great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, The Colossus of Clout. Not just as the home run kingdbooster in #hive-111011 • last yearJapanese Drinking CultureThe other day I came across a great link that I'll share at the bottom of this post. It is all about Japan's drinking culture, giving and defining termdbooster in #hive-111011 • 3 months agoAre You Beating Inflation? The other day I was buying some instant coffee and noticed something: the price was the same, but the size had shrunk. It used to be 90g; ndbooster in #hive-111011 • 3 months agoNone of This Is Real The headlines scream: “$170,000,000,000 wiped out from crypto in 24 hours.” It sounds catastrophic. A hundred and seventy billion gone. Poof! But here’s the thing: that money never really existed.dbooster in #hive-115814 • 2 months agoYamamoto Dominates Game 2, and the 18-Inning Madness of Game 3 What a World Series this has turned out to be. If Game 1 set the tone, then Games 2 and 3 tore the roof off. In the interest of showing my biases: I am for the Dodgers here. I…dbooster in #hive-121744 • last yearOut of Ideas Christopher Booker once wrote an essay called "The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories" in which he argued that there are only seven basic stories in the world and thatdbooster in #hive-126152 • 11 months agoA Walk Through Time; Tracing Footsteps in OkazakiOkazaki Castle Often, I walk in Okazaki. All cities in Japan are old, but this one has a history that stands out.dbooster in #hive-126152 • last yearGo (The Game), Chess and Shogi, and Planning AheadI've blogged before about how my oldest son likes to play chess while my youngest son prefers shogi (Japanese chess). I like both, but I am always reminded that I don't entirely…
