Last year, I bought a piece of land in Pinamagajan, Cebu, my wife's hometown.The distance from the center of Cebu City is 55 km, about 1 hour and 20 minutes by ...

For the past few years, I've only had "withholding tax" because my only income was from my company salary.Last year, I received a distribution from the dissolut...

The Philippines is full of different sounds.In the cities, it's the car horns, and in the countryside, it's the crowing of chickens that you hear most often.Not...

The company I work for has a mandatory retirement age of 60, after which I can work as a fixed-term contract employee until I turn 65.I will be 65 years old thi...

Cebu Island continues to grow year by year.As the second largest city in the Philippines, more and more high-rise buildings are being built, but the infrastruct...

My wife wanted to get a hot press sandwich maker the other day. She liked the hot-pressed sandwiches she had at Coffee Ito when we went back to Fukuoka, and wan...

It was 26 years ago on February 25 that Tatsuya Jo, a man I admired, passed away. Mr. Jo is famous for his narration on FM Tokyo's Jetstream, which he did for 2...

I wrote the other day about the results of a survey showing that people who are married are happier.This is the same for all ages, regardless of gender. For exa...

I read a book about a society in which "living alone" will soon become the norm. In Japan, there are a significant number of people who do not or cannot get mar...

February 14th was Valentine's Day. In Japan, this is the day when women give chocolates to the men they like.Chocolates are distributed not only to the men you ...