Small Mountains, Big Emotions There’s a saying that goes something like, “A wise man climbs Fuji once. Only a fool climbs it twice.” I’ve climbed Mt. Fuji twice now and plan…
I was raised in the U.S in a relatively conservative town near the Mexican border and went to a Baptist school for several years. While I never became a religious…
If you're looking to hire people in Japan, finding and identifying specific names of people isn’t that tough — you can scour LinkedIn, pick up a phone book, go on…
Morning routines are great, but if you have a crappy night then it makes things a lot harder. Just ask anyone who has ever woken up with a hangover.So, a…
Tokyo has one of the largest populations in the world but it’s also one of the loneliest cities. The trains in Japan are usually quiet, even when packed full like…
I haven’t eaten in three days and just went for a two-hour hike in the mountains followed by a swim in a waterfall. No, I haven’t been kidnapped and I’m…
Imagine that you are a 25-year old Japanese person that spends 9 am - 10 pm at work every day. That’s not uncommon in Japan — actually that’s pretty good since at…
For most of my life I would roll out of bed, jump in the shower, scroll through emails, chug a coffee (or furiously sip, depending on how hot it was)…
I spent four wonderful years at a recruitment agency in Tokyo, mostly working with tech startups and foreign firms entering the Japanese market. My goal was to help companies find…
Niall Ferguson is a well-established author and historian that helped popularize the use of “counterfactual thinking” in history. Counterfactual simply refers to re-imaging the outcome of an event — like you’re living…
