October 2008
9 posts
Japanese-Style Wedding
So to a westerner’s eyes, Japanese people have a seemingly endless number of strange customs, and weddings cannot be excluded from this category. According to Hiro, weddings are either traditional Shinto-style, or French-style. My first reaction to the idea of French-style weddings in Japan was “but you’re Japanese!”. The French style weddings have the added oddity of...
September 2008
75 posts
Best Fishing Trip Ever
So we had met Kashi at Sana’s wedding party a couple of weeks ago when we shared the stage for an improptu jam, and at the after-party festivities the discussion somehow turned to fishing. We learned that Kashi is an avid fisher, and lives in Miura Kaigan primarily for the proximity to the fish of Tokyo Bay. He invited us on a fishing trip and of course we readily agreed.
The plan was to...
The docks at Miura Kaigan.
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