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The summer holidays are over here in Japan, and it’s back to school for yours truly after a very busy few weeks of kendo. I am always running around doing kendo during this period, and so am quite used to it, but this year was slightly different in that I combined two events in to … Continue reading Teaching environments: summer gasshuku in Japan vs seminar […]

Apologies everyone for my long absence from posting in this blog! Last November we moved home. At the same time my wife was operated on for Brain Cancer, so kendo took a back seat. In December I got the news that I have Stomach Cancer (one of Japan’s most popular). For a lifetime henna gaijin, […]

In my experience the Japanese are better at maths than us Brits. Whereas for years we have been taught “new Maths” where calculators are an integral part of the process, Japanese children are still taught by rote, in a similar … Continue reading →

The Mito Tōbukan was written about previously on this site. Since then it underwent a more than year long relocation and reconstruction. Dismantling of the original structure took place from January 2014 to March 2014. Reconstruction then took until March … Continue reading →