Sophelia's Japan

Image from  https://twitter.com/BFJNews/status/1026697347856838656 Even if you don’t usually follow Japanese news, you’ll have no do...

So Photobucket have suddenly decided they won't allow hotlinking, and have punished me by suspending my account (and locking all my phot...

A few weeks ago the Asahi Shimbun published an article reporting that public school teachers are now considered at risk of death from ove...

Copyrighted by Human Rights Watch Tiger was telling me last-night about an orphanage trip to USJ. They'd gone on the Jaws ride, b...

Like a fish out of water I used to think of cultural habits as located in the mind, but since attempting to reintegrate into life in A...

The past few years have seen some really funny and creative tourism campaigns from Oita, a prefecture mainly known for onsen and monkeys....

Taken from this album  On Thursday night we had the strongest quake we'd ever felt. Tiger slept right through it, unlike Hay...