And here we go, the Setouchi Triennale 2013 is underway; officially since last Wednesday, and personally since last Sunday when I spent the day on Ogijima. For the past few weeks, I’ve received a few e-mails and comments asking me for advice and tips about the Setouchi Triennale. While, I like

  So, as you may or may not know, Monday is part of my week-end (Saturday is not) and this afternoon I was downtown with 康代. It actually was her first time downtown since 華’s birth. Just as we were getting out of Marugamemachi Green, the newest shopping mall that

  I’m finished packing (ok, I’ll be in an hour or two). We’ll be leaving Agen tomorrow at dawn, heading to Toulouse. There we’ll take a plane from Frankfurt and from there to Osaka, where we’ll take a bus to Takamatsu.    

  The events depicted on this post took place on May 18th, 2009. (Previously on Ogijima: I took a plane from Paris to Japan, via Hong Kong) The plane landed in the morning (well, I think it was the morning, I was completely jet lagged and it was only the

  On May 17th 2011, two years ago today, I left France to travel to Japan for the first time, a trip that would have a great influence on me as you already know (if it hadn’t this blog wouldn’t exist in the first place). Let’s start with the beginning,

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