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sixmats.com
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A way for me to communicate across the ocean and to try to put what I see everyday in Japan down in words and pictures. Here is Japan.
Recent Posts
Back to Yamadera
I've been in Sendai for more than two years now and in that time I had only been to Yamadera once until last weekend. I finally made the move after checking the weather. I thought the risk of some rain in the afternoon was worth the risk. There was o...
Learning Japanese in Sendai for Busy People
After looking around by myself, I finally broke down and asked somebody where to find some Japanese lessons. Most of the lessons I found by myself were in the daytime, and I can't make those (no matter how long of a lunch I would take). I contacted ...
Back to Ishinomaki
Ishinomaki is a fishing town / harbor / manufacturing area on the Miyagi Pacific Coast. It's not very far from Sendai, yet in the two years since I have been here, I have only been to Ishinomaki twice - once to visit newly found family and once for w...
Sendai-shi
One of my frequent visitors to my photo blog is a man named Abraham Lincoln. He always leaves comments talking about how much the city has changed since he was here after the war. Well, he decided to start his own site called Sendai-shi. These are h...
Campfire
I was out with my wife's friends and I was asked why I like Sendai/Tohoku. One answer I gave was that I like to see some hint of nature every once and a while. That was part of the difficulty of living in Tokyo for me. The occasional trip out to the ...
Iwate Koyo!
When I got my Nikon D80 the first thing I wanted to photograph was the cherry blossoms in the spring. The second was the autumn foliage. I got the camera at the end of July, so I'll have to wait for spring to get the cherry blossoms. Since I'm livin...
