by CBauthor | Dec 31, 2016 | Japanese Culture
We are in Japan for the New Year with the grandparents. My wife, Yumi, has a friend who recently opened a hair salon in Maruoka (about a thirty minute drive from Fukui City). We went for haircuts and conversation. After that, we went a few blocks to Maruoka Castle....
by CBauthor | Nov 1, 2016 | Japanese Culture
Mifune Toshiro (or if you read backwards, Toshiro Mifune) was my favorite Japanese actor in the 1990s. He played all the best samurai roles and had a long and rocky partnership with Akira Kurosawa (or if you read frontwards, Kurosawa Akira). [Note: I learned about...
