I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.  There’s something about the Japanese women that causes me to have one giant girl crush on them.  It’s not really one thing in particular, but a hundred different things that come together to create a petite, pastel-colored, fringed with lace and tied in a beautiful bow package of Japanese […]

With the help of Google Translate to help us understand the Disney Crowd Calendar, we were absolutely frightened when we discovered that the only day we could visit Tokyo Disneyland was predicted to be “Violently Crowded”!  On an eight tiered scale that begins with “People Rattle” at less than 20 000 attendees, we couldn’t have picked a […]

Let’s face it, the Japanese LOVE their pets!  At 21.3 million, there are more registered pets in Japan than there are children!!  With numbers like that, you’d think everyone in Japan would own some kind of animal, but pet ownership isn’t for everyone I guess. Enter, The Pet Cafe! Before our first trip to Japan, we […]

As many of you have likely already heard, an earthquake in Nepal has devastated the entire country.  For many people though, the earthquake is more than just a tragic news story.  It has directly affected millions of people, both in Nepal and around the globe. Living as expats in SE Asia, we are often reminded […]

Who knew that singing karaoke in Japan was going to take us so darn long to cross off our While We’re Alive list?  It seems easy, right? Step 1: Fly to Japan. Step 2: Find a karaoke bar. Step 3: Sing. Well, if you’ve ever been to Japan before, you know just how intimating it […]