The author of the influential "Memoirs of a Gaijin" blog moved on to create this web magazine about Kyoto, featuring news, reviews and articles about Kansai and Japanese culture.
Also features a lifestream and a library of Japanese stock photography.
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Orrizonte is a bar on the 17th floor of Kyoto Hotel Okura near Kyoto Shiyakushomae Subway in the centre of town. It is notable for a few reasons, the first of which being that it stands at a nosebleed-inducing height. Most Kyoto buildings were...
Japan decided it’s bored of summer and prefers a more arctic look and has therefore become ridiculously cold. I am not at all happy about this. Not enough light and too many clothes make Andy a dull boy.
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You may have heard that Japanese people are reserved in public and are not sexually gregarious. As ever, claiming that one race of people are different from other humans almost always turns out to be orientalism (in the Edward Said sense of the word)...
