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  Viva La Art! Viva Japan!

  A project to help with Tohoku recovery efforts that I’m personally taking part in is the Viva La Art “Operation Tomodachi” charity art auction, which is going on NOW online, with a live event in Tokyo on Sunday, April 17th from 6:00pm at Hatos Bar in Meguro-ku. I am very excited and honored to send ...

  Posted: April 16th, 2011 ˑ  Comments Closed
  Filled under: Creative Work

• 3.11—Devastation, Community and Rebuilding

  By now anyone reading this knows all about the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor disasters that have hit Northern Japan this past month. While there was strong shaking in Shizuoka on March 11th, I have been fortunate living far enough way to not experience any damage. But I do have family and friends in ...

  Posted: April 16th, 2011 ˑ  Comments Closed
  Filled under: Random Thoughts
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  Oni ha Uchi…?!

  Update on the Setsubun festivities. After eating our big sushi rolls of eho-maki in the direction of South-Southeast we prepared for the throwing of the beans. Now one needs to have something to throw the beans at and for Setsubun one needs an oni (devil). So we masked our little devils. They weren’t too thrilled ...

  Posted: February 3rd, 2011 ˑ  Comments Closed
  Filled under: Random Thoughts
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  Remember, it’s South-Southeast

  Tomorrow, February 3rd, is Setsubun in Japan. A time for throwing beans and unsuspecting cats (ok, throwing beans at cats not normal, but someone has to play the oni/devil) and eating a big sushi roll while facing the “lucky” directions while laughing but not uttering a word. We got the sushi and beans, now just ...

  Posted: February 2nd, 2011 ˑ  2 Comments
  Filled under: Expat-in-Japan