A big open-air rock festival is held annually every summer in the small town where I live that is enclosed by mountains. More than ten times as many people as the town's population visit during the ……続きを見る
A Woman with An Iron Heart!
The nearest train station from my home that I usually use has no station attendants on site. All it has are a ticket vending machine and an emergency phone. There's no ti……続きを見る
To keep being a dreamer living in Japan is as hard as to catch a fly in the air with chopsticks, and yet it's not all impossible. The chain of events that you have never experienced in your life cha……続きを見る
The hotel I checked in on my trip to Kyoto gave me a discount coupon for the buffet breakfast and I had it next morning at the restaurant. The buffet had Japanese expensive dishes in addition to the……続きを見る
My parents live in my hometown, Kyoto, which is located in the western part of Japan. A long time ago, when Japan had the feudal system, my family was a landlord of the area. It has come to a comple……続きを見る
Memoirs and essays of a girl who was born as the 63rd successor of a landlord's 1000-year-long family in Kyoto that was the most traditional and formal city in Japan. How her family and people in he……続きを見る
A dream I wish to have in the night most isn't about dating a Hollywood star, or making a great hit with my song. It's not about my parents saying to me with tears "We were wrong. We're sorry." eith……続きを見る
A Slipper Battle
About ten months ago, a middle-aged woman complained to me about my slippers at the communal spa of my apartment building. She wanted me to take them off and stay barefoot in the lo……続きを見る
