A simple blog about life in Japan
Marie Kondo took the world by storm in the mid-2010s with her philosophy of keeping only items that “spark joy.” But in recent years, her media presence has waned. So, what happened to KonMari?
Japan has produced two major exports in the fields of self-help and cleanliness in the past decade: Marie Kondo and...
“From Tatami to Tokyo: The Foreigner’s Handbook Apartment Hunting in Japan” by Brian Takahashi is a 54-page guidebook for foreigners...
“Japan Sinks” by Sakyo Komatsu, translated into English by Michael Gallagher, is a hard core disaster / sci-fi novel that...
“Japan Travel Guide: Things I Wish I’d Known Before Going to Japan” by Yuki Fukuyama and Ken Fukuyama is a...