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2026
A One-Day Trip to Yanshui, Tainan: Piecing Together Life 100 Years Ago from What Still Remains
First Tainan, second Lukang, third Monga, fourth "Yuejin Port", and this is how prosperous Yanshui once was. A walk aro…
A Working Holiday Year in Japan: Preparation, Costs, and a Life That Isn't Mostly Working
From 2025 to 2026 I spent a year on a working holiday in Japan. This post covers prep, what I actually spent, Japanese…
Chicken House Notes | Glad I'm Not a Farm Animal
As the days go by and the size gap widens, the ones who can't keep up may get pushed away from water and feed, and the…
Working at a Ski Resort Hotel: Life in Snow Country, Sugadaira Kogen, Nagano
My one wish for the working holiday was to "spend a winter somewhere with snow." So from December 2025 to March 2026 I…
2025
A Side Quest from Work Exchange: Cooking with Japanese People, for Japanese People
The staff member at "Machimachi Information Center," Shiho-san, who makes tofu for a living, invited me to help prepare…
A Day Trip in Kyotango: Kumihama, Amino and Mineyama
A wealthy merchant's mansion and Nyoiji Temple in Kumihama, Neapolitan pizza in Amino, the singing sands of Kotohikiham…
Local Produce in Kyotango, and Matsuba Crab Season Is Open!
I biked around looking for unstaffed farm stands and found sweet potatoes, pears, fresh peanuts and giant shiitake. I w…
Work Exchange: An Oyster Fishing Village on Kumihama Bay, Kyotango
My third work exchange was at an oyster farmer's home on Kumihama Bay, at the northernmost tip of Kyoto facing the Sea…
Work Exchange: A Strawberry Farm near Himeji, and No Strawberries in October
My second work exchange was a month at a strawberry-picking farm in Himeji: early mornings, quiet me-time greenhouse wo…
Himeji in October: The Fighting Festival, Moon Viewing and Seasonal Produce
What's on in Himeji in October? Besides the classics, the national-treasure Himeji Castle and the thousand-year-old tem…
Shodoshima on the Seto Inland Sea, with No Art Festival
On my way to my next work-exchange spot in Himeji, I stopped by Shodoshima: a three-hour ferry from Himeji Port, a cozy…
2023
Not Depending on Anyone or Anything: Not in Fandom, Not in Love
A person can find happiness all on their own: they know what they need, know how to be with themselves, and know how to…
To My Lost 20-Year-Old Self: A Lifestyle of Pursuing Dreams
I wrote "A Lifestyle of Pursuing Dreams" in my senior year of university, and the thousand-plus words of drafts never g…
2022
Daily Life | Climbing as a Way of Talking to Myself
Over more than five years of climbing, I've realised a few things along the way, about being alive, about choices, and…
Daily Life | Cooking with Carrot Tops
If you saw carrots with fresh green tops like I did, you probably also wondered, "Is there anything else these beautifu…
Daily Life | You Have to Be Prepared for Cannabis to Help You. Maybe?
I tried cannabis for the first time and was disappointed to find it didn't have the hallucinogenic effect I'd imagined.…
2021
2020
Unable to Get Closer Because We Don't Understand: Reading 《滌，這個不正常的人》 #2
The problem of relationships that can't get closer and can't understand each other is like the elephant in the room tha…
I'm an "Abnormal" Person Too: Reading 《滌，這個不正常的人》 #1
Those unbearable "bangs", I've collected many, many of them too. The events themselves don't matter, but "What's there…
2019
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