Category: Japan
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Great Miyagi Earthquake of 2011
Outside Cross Tower Modeling Amazon.co.jp hard hats On Friday, as usual, a group of us from work went out to Beacon, a favorite lunch place. Lunch was great, a nice filling burger, as usual. Then back to work for the afternoon. At about three o’clock sometime (amazingly, I feel like I should know exactly when […]
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Monjya-yaki and the Lion King’s Simba
Getting monjya-yaki with some friends Monjya-yaki Simba! Last night my wife and I went to the house warming party of some friends of ours. They had just moved back from New York, where the husband was studying law at Columbia University. They rented out the lounge on the 37th floor of their building near Tsukishima. […]