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Finding Hatchbori Disovering Kyoto Day 7: April 4, 2012 Wednesday Melodrama aside, I was actually sad leaving Kyoto…and exhausted. As we neared Tokyo, we caught sight of Mt. Fuji…separated by a glass on a moving bullet train! The train pulled into Tokyo Station at 5pm. Back on familiar ground. We we

FINDING HATCHOBORI Day 5: April 2, 2012 Monday The next morning, after breakfast, we leisurely packed up (after the clueless hotel clerk told us getting to Tokyo Station on the Keiyo Line takes less than 10 minutes) and strolled to the train station. We barely made the bullet train, Shinkansen Hikar

Day 1: March 29, 2012 Thursday Our journey began from JFK and took us into the Land of the Rising Sun some 13-back-breaking-hours later. At the airport, I could have sworn I saw Ninomiya-kun of Japanese boy band Arashi, and is known (to American audiences) for his portrayal as Private Saigo in the 2

As more than a billion Chinese usher in the new lunar year, the 4,710th of the Chinese calendar, to many, this year is a very special year. The year of the mystical dragon. This year, many Chinese families will try to add to their brood by producing a little baby dragon…God willing. Like years befor

Do not censor the web. Let Congress hear us. We will be going back to the dark ages, where we were all living under a rock. Thank you wikipedia, google, mozilla, wordpress for showing the world what happens when Congress decides to censor our internet. Filed under: Family Tagged: End piracy not libe

On their last morning in the US, I gave my parents my sister’s baby album. An array of emotions splash across their faces: from laughter, joy, love and finally tears. It was two months since my parents came for the birth of their first grandchild, here on named AFD. She came unexpectedly early, on a