JAPAN through my eyes

This blog will continue show the photos that I take as I live and vacation in Japan. I particularly love to walk and have a strong interest in Buddhism and Shinto so I will be showing the temples, shrines and other interesting things that I discover.

Dec 10, 2017

Japanese English

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We bought some paper napkins that were decorated with English. It makes me so happy that all the years I and others have put into teachi...

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Dec 5, 2017

Takeda Hospital - Last post on this subject

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I posted this before but in case you did not see it I have added it here. This is a typical hospital room with two beds. Privacy is provi...

Dec 1, 2017

Takeda Hospital

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The Takeda Hospital is small, it only has 15 beds. In fact, I was recently told that it is too small to use the Japanese word for hospital ...

Nov 15, 2017

In the Hospital

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After an hour and a half of good sleep, I woke up with a pain in my lower abdomen. I knew immediately what it was because I have had it any...

Nov 5, 2017

Go Tournaments

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During the last two days I participated in two different go tournaments. This shows the first of the two just before we started. It was he...

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Charles: Nakagawa-machi, Chikush-gun, Fukuoka-ken, Japan; I have lived in Japan since 1976 and now consider it to be my permanent home. I have a very varied background having studied engineering, Japanese and East Asian studies, and education at the university level. I spent ten years in the Army where my job involved Area Studies, mostly in East Asia. When I started to teach in Japan, it was at a post high school level and, after I completed a PhD in education, I moved to a university where I become a full professor. After retiring, I taught part-time but am now completely retired and spend my enjoying myself. I am reasonably fluent in Japanese and at present all of my friends are elderly Japanese.

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