Japanese Snack Reviews

One of the big differences between my blogging in Japan about Japanese food as compared to doing so in the U.S. is that it costs me a...

Nippon-ya did a survey and this box of sweets was their most popular. I can see why that is the case if only based on the packaging. It...

I think my faithful readers will find that little has changed since I last blogged. I'm still using a crummy little digital camera a...

There's this thing in America where the kids like this singer named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure what the appeal is because he l...

One of the things you get from being outside of a culture and looking in is a perspective on how things seem to be. You get an overview ...

Since leaving Japan and becoming a woman of leisure (i.e., unemployed), I've been taking advantage of the time to do things which I ...

My husband and I are sumo fans from our earliest days in Japan. In fact, that was how he learned a lot of his kanji (Chinese characters), a...

If you don't pay attention to what you're buying in Japan, you can often end up buying the wrong thing. When my husband and I ca...

This is actually the third or fourth one of these marshmallow treats that I've purchased. Every time I get one, I eat it before I can ge...