Shaun in Japan

So, I'm back in Japan, studying Japanese on an intensive language scholarship program. This blog is not in any way sponsored by or asso...

Reading is probably the hardest part of learning Japanese, so I thought as my last post on this blog, I'd share some strategies that hel...

7/30/2012 My stomach is full of sushi and matcha. This is the feeling I wanted to leave Japan with. 満足。 Manzoku . Satisfaction. I was wo...

I wrote two blog entries on the plane home, so now that I've been home for almost a month, I figure I'll write them up. I've bee...

Well, this is it. I'm leaving for Narita Airport around 2pm tomorrow. I had my two big suitcases shipped to the airport this morning, ...

Last Sunday at Fuji-Q Highland was interesting. It was a holiday on Monday, which I didn't realize, so the roads were incredibly crowded...

This post is going to take the form of a list because I've been terribly neglectful of this blog. And I'm not actually that sorry b...