Category: Japan

  • Cherry blossoms and Saitama Shrines over the weekend

    A whole bunch of Cherry Blossoms Papa and Alan Mama and Alan Lisa, David, and Alan at Hikawa Shrine Hikawa Shrine Gate Hikawa Shrine and friends Last week I was in the US after a business trip and had a day to visit with family. Due to the international dateline, coming back to Japan you […]

  • A visit to the limited-time Koyama Sweets shop

    A bunch of Americans visit the Koyama sweets shop My friend Akihiro Oyama’s family has run the Koyama Western Sweets shop in Kessennuma for 120 years. His older brother is the 5th Oyama to run the Koyama sweets shop. Last year in the March 11th Earthquake and Tsunami, their town and shop was completely wiped […]

  • Professional Family photos

    Dave, Alana, and Gary with their Marathon Medals Dave, Alana, and Gary with their Marathon Medals Pooh Bear Alana Yoshiyuki Pooh Bear Alan Yoshiyuki Alan Yoshiyuki in his great-grandfather’s baby kimono Alana and Scout David, Alana, Alan, and Scout Scout and Balloons Gary, Alana, and Scout David, Alana, Lisa, Alan, Gary, and Scout Lisa, David, […]

  • A trip to Hakone with the family

    Alan in his cute Yukata Alana, Dave, and Scout at dinner The Hakone Group at the Onsen We took a cable car up the mountain The top of sulfur mountain Black Eggs and Mt. Fuji Ropeway ride down to the lake Pirate ships on Ashinoko (Lake Ashi) After running the Tokyo Marathon, I was a […]

  • Tokyo Marathon

    Evans family marathon runners Evans runner support team At the end of the race! The full support team About a year ago my father made a joking suggestion that we run the Tokyo marathon together. My twin sister ran the new York marathon in 2010 so she wanted to run her second marathon. So we […]

  • Setsubun – throw beans around for good luck!

    A demon! Ready the beans! Beans away! Today is Setsubun, a day that marks the traditional start of Spring. Well, I hope it does because it is super cold out here, and getting up and running every morning has been a challenge. What Setsubun really means is that you buy a bunch of beans of […]

  • Dinner and a Movie in Tokyo after the Earthquake

    Tokyo Midtown is a large tower in Roppongi, we went there for a nice dinner The tower still stands For the past week, R. and I have been at home. I have been working from home (it is great that I work at a company where this is possible) while R. has been off of […]

  • Why I am not worried about Earthquakes or Radiation in Tokyo

    Anti-earthquake hat Anti-radiation hat In the past few days there has been a lot of confusion about what has been going on. I wrote a bit about my experience in the big earthquake and then later a bit about food shortages, and strange things I am eating. I touched a bit there on the supply […]

  • You know it is bad when you are eating Nude Crunky Balls

    Crunky Nude Balls Crunky Nude Balls With a city of over 15 million people, food can run out fast. I just wen to the local supermarket and they still don’t have any staple foods (but they have had deliveries of other non-staple foods.) It could be that there was just a buying run, but since […]

  • I hope you like broccoli, because that is what is for dinner

    A run at the supermarket A run at the supermarket A run at the supermarket So this evening my wife and I stopped by the local (very large) supermarket to pick up some toilet paper and something for dinner tomorrow night. Turns out, we could get neither because almost everything was sold out. We did […]