If you follow a little bit what’s going on in Japan (and if you’re reading this blog, I assume you do), you most likely know that this morning at around 5.30am, most people in the western part of Japan (Kansai, Shikoku, Chūgoku, even some parts of Kyūshū) were “affected”

  Among all the new experiences that I live since I’ve arrived in Japan, there is one that I’d rather have avoided and that I rather avoid in the future too, but I’m afraid that there is no escape from it in Japan. I’m talking about earthquakes. I’ve never had

  I’ve just learned about a 5.4 Magnitude Earthquake in Wakayama Prefecture. It was also strongly felt on Shikoku and on Takamatsu (to get a reference, 康代 told me that she felt only one earthquake in her life, it was the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995) . However, from what

Rui Sato is this little kid. He’s two years old and he’s one of the many survivors of last month’s disasters. I don’t know why I can’t stop looking at this picture. It’s so sad and so joyful at the same time. And I’m not ashamed to say that every

  Just a brief note to ask you – if you haven’t given all of the money that you can spare to one of the NGOs listed in the Blog For Japan Initiative yet – to give money to one more NGO.       Second Hand is a small

Here is a video from a talk held last week at the Columbia Business School and called “The Economic, Health, and Political Consequences of Japan’s Earthquake.” The man talking is Dr. Gerald Curtis, and what he has to say is what should be relayed in the Western media, not the

A few days ago I told you about Todd Wassel’s project. Well, this is it. It’s on! It’s called Blog For Japan (hashtag #blog4japan on Twitter) You’ll have all the details on Todd’s Blog on his Blog For Japan page. Also, if any French speaker stumbled here more or less

In France, a website was started this week with the aim of collecting various drawings, texts, paintings done in support of Japan. I assume it will be turned into a book later and profits will be given to some NGO, I admit that I didn’t check the details. I’m not

For a couple of days, on Reddit, on French blogs, I started to see that question popping up more and more. Here is my take on it. (Disclaimer: since I started this blog I decided to make it as consensual as possible for a bunch of reasons – the main

  Just a few lines to refer you to Todd Wassel’s site Todd’s Wanderings if you don’t know him already. Real quick, Todd loves Japan. He lived there five years, married a Japanese woman, and walked the Shikoku Pilgrimage not once but twice before the age of 30! Also Todd

Just a quick note to say that I hope all of my readers from the areas touched by the earthquake/tsunami are safe. I know Anna and Yoshi are. I don’t know about anybody else. My thoughts are with you all.   EDIT (03/12/11 – 9:24PM GMT)): A few people arrived