It's official! Sometime after 10pm JST on 5th July, the UNESCO committee decided that the 23 'Sites of the Meiji Industrial... Read more »Battleship Island Becomes a UNESCO World Heri ...
It's official! Sometime after 10pm JST on 5th July, the UNESCO committee decided that the 23 'Sites of the Meiji Industrial... Read more »Finally! New English Road Signs in Japan!
It's been a long time coming, but it seems Tokyo winning the 2020 bid for the Olympics and the surge in visits from foreign... Read more »Gaku-RUN-Man – Running the Tokyo Marath ...
Today is the Tokyo Marathon! I signed up on a bit of a whim, but after defying the 1/10 odds and being selected, I started... Read more »Hi! I’m a Foreigner! Racist Party Mask
Anyone who has lived in Japan for a reasonable amount of time (and many who have just visited) will have had the pleasure of... Read more »Gunkanjima Geocache
Geocaching is always something I've wanted to get into, but there's a lot of effort that goes into organising and maintaining... Read more »Documenting Adventures in 2014
Greetings fellow explorers! It's been quite a while since my last haikyo post - over half a year in fact. Although this one does... Read more »The Japanese Zeitgeist: 10 Buzzwords of 2013
As a followup to my popular Top 50 Buzzwords of 2013, Anthony Joh, director at Gaijinpot and producer for the well-known Tokyo... Read more »Top 50 Japanese Buzzwords of 2013
In what's become something of an annual tradition here on Gakuran.com, I'm back again analysing the Japanese words of the year -... Read more »
























