Japan

• Note: Woke up today to hear that a friend in our future home village was speaking to the local government office in relation to the scheme we’ll apply for next year, about an incoming new employee but also enquired our behalf to confirm that the scheme will still be running and available to non-Japanese applicants.
• Plans for 2021
• 2020 Plans Reviewed
• Note: So, yesterday I wrote and posted an 8 page letter (A5 I think, one-sided, no fecking lines!) to a couple that I’ve never met before but who I suspect have heard a little about me.
• Note: My mother-in-law shared this link on the family LINE chat (日本語): https://www.sankei.com/west/news/201127/wst2011270045-n1.html The gist: Some experiments were carried out at Nara prefectural medical university (probably not the correct name in English) in which over-the-counter bottled tea were introduced to laboratory samples of covid-19.
• 2020 Provisional Plans
• え ず い Exploring Tosa-ben 4
• Hirome Ichiba, Kōchi
• うどみゆー – Exploring Tosa-ben 3
• いらばかしよった – Exploring Tosa-ben 2
• Kanazawa (金沢) 2006
• あっぽろけ – Exploring Tosa-ben 1
• The Scots Who Shaped Japan: No. 1 – Rita Taketsuru
• Cormorant fishing (鵜飼)
• Pre-Wedding Pictures
• Kiriyama Tea Farm (霧山茶業組合)
• Tosa-ben card game (龍馬・土佐弁かるた)
• Shiraishi Island (白石島)
• Review: Japan, Funny Side Up
• Review: 2:46 Aftershock – #Quakebook
• Silence is Broken
• Seppuku
• Hail the new Shinto ‘God’ of Guitar
• The Genius of Kurosawa – The Hidden Fortress
• Okayama tackles Tokyo’s domination of cool web clips! (well sort of)