Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I recently completed seven days volunteer work with the Japan-based non-profit organization Peace Boat. I was part of an international group of 6 volunteers – British, Japanese, Irish and Vietnamese. Complete strangers at the start, the nature of our work and life in Ishinomaki brought us together. We barely lost […]
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Volunteering in Ishinomaki
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! This Friday I will join a group of volunteers bound for tsunami-devastated Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture. Around hundred of us will take the bus from Shinjuku to spend a week helping with emergency relief activities. It will make a strange contrast to tour leading, but I am glad of the opportunity to be doing something practical, rather […]
Sendai and Matsushima after the tsunami
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Matsushima
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! InsideJapan Co-Director, Simon King is currently travelling in Japan meeting up with colleagues, suppliers and business partners across the country. His travels included a trip to the Tohoku region which had areas very badly damaged as a result of the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th 2011. […]
Earthquake-damaged garden reopens
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Ibaraki is the ninja prefecture; it is right next to Tokyo but nobody seems to have noticed it. On the rare occasions people are familiar with Ibaraki, it`s usually because of natto, a stinky sticky soy bean concotion that drives diners wild. Loved or hated, usually the latter, eating natto is an obligation for all Ibaraki visitors; as is a visit to Kairakuen […]
More radiation in Cornwall or Tokyo?
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Japan still OK!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Although the Fukushima Plant continues make headlines, Bob Bury, the former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists, says that a number of countries and cities around the world have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, even during this time of crisis. Meanwhile, the […]
Earthquake Experience (Hiroshima, Kanazawa, Takayama)
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I am currently leading a Japan Unmasked tour. We are just over halfway through the trip in Takayama in the Japan Alps. We were in Hiroshima when the major quake struck. Walking around the Peace Park, none of our group noticed the slightest tremor. We did not even hear about the […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I am currently leading a Japan Unmasked tour. We are just over halfway through the trip in Takayama in the Japan Alps. We were in Hiroshima when the major quake struck. Walking around the Peace Park, none of our group noticed the slightest tremor. We did not even hear about the […]