Taylor Bond Hakone is a region of mountainous scenery whose beauty remains constant in every season of the year. It is perhaps...
Taylor Bond For those based in Tokyo, travel expenses can be a make-or-break factor when considering whether to take a trip to regions...
Read any Haruki Murakami novel and it is easy to tell the inescapable grip jazz once had on Japan. Following World War II, when...
I saw a monkey in there roaming around once and it didn’t seem out of place. That’s the only way I can effectively introduce the...
Tampons came packaged in totally opaque, black plastic bags, which the attendants at the register put in your hands quickly and carefully. There was no...
Oddly enough, I had almost no expectations when I boarded the late-night plane out of New York’s JFK Airport and took the 17-hour journey to...