THE HISTORY OF HUMAN SACRIFICE IN JAPAN
The words sacrifice and Japan tend to conjure images of honourable samurai sitting on their knees ready to disembowel themsel…
TAKAMATSU - UDON EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Takamatsu is the second largest city on Shikoku, and sits on the Seto Inland Sea side of the island, giving ferry access to Kob…
KANAGAWA - AN EXERCISE IN FAILURE
My single biggest inspiration for starting this travel writing blog last year is the late Alan Booth, who wrote about his walk …
OSAKA - JESUCRISTO, THAT'S NOT JASON BOURNE
Not knowing anything about the area I was in following my arrival, I marched with all the frivolity of a child in a summer mead…
KOBE - LIKE BEING IN AN EPISODE OF INITIAL D
The Great Hanshin earthquake, which hit almost thirty years ago, devastated much of Kobe, as evidenced by the collapse of the e…
NAGOYA - A CITY WITH NO TOURISTS MAKES THIS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
I arrived in Nagoya in the early hours, even after the night bus sat stationary for almost two of the eight-hour journey somewh…
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