百姓　Hyakusho

On October 23 I spoke about my research to forth graders from an elementary school in Shibuya, Tokyo. They’re planning to create habitat for...

Sunday and Monday, September 7 and 8, there was a festival of sorts in Fujino, the small town I worked in this past summer. Local artists so...

On September 18 I started an 11-week Japanese language course. These are some of the students in my class. Weekdays I commute almost 2 hours...

On Saturday, September 22, Junya OOBA, a friend of mine, and I visited the construction site of Mr. UEDA, a timber frame builder and archite...

On Saturday and Sunday, September 8 and 9, I traveled to Fukushima-Prefecture Itate-village with the third year college students entering th...

I recently spent 6 days in the Kansai area (Wakayama, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara). I stayed with Kudo-san, a retired elementary school teacher who b...