A couple of years ago, I started using very little cash.The only time I use cash now is to charge my Suica card and to send money to my family in the Philippine...

Yesterday, I received Furusato tax return gift of Osechi. My wife asked the price, and when I said 2,000 yen, she asked, "Really?　Why is it so cheap? " So I tri...

The other day at the Seven Park Ario Kashiwa supermarket, we bought some Australian beef for stew that looked good, along with a can of Heinz demi-glace sauce. ...

For the Japanese, Christmas is an end-of-year event with no religious affiliation.The city is decorated with Christmas trees, there are special Christmas cake s...

The night of December 19. ZIPAIR, an LCC subsidiary of Japan Airlines, took off from Narita Airport to Honolulu, carrying 26 passengers and 14 tons of cargo. Ha...

One of the easiest businesses to start in the Philippines is a sari-sari store. A sari-sari store is a kind of small, privately owned convenience store that sel...

The other day I wrote about my commute.I can sit on the first train in the morning and the train departing from Shinagawa Station on the way home, so I don't ha...

It's been two months since I stepped down from my position at the end of September to become a regular contract employee. I'm getting used to having three days ...

This blog is intended to be a diary or a memorandum to be read back by myself at a later date, and I have no intention of monetizing it.Of course, I would be ha...

This blog is like a diary or a memoir, and the main reader is yourself. The English version is available so that my wife can also read what I think about on a d...