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I don’t know how many times I’ve returned to Kakunodate over the past...
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When I first came to Tokyo in the mid 1980s, I stayed with a...
Nine years have passed since Japan’s northeastern coast was hit by a triple...
For the longest time, it seemed like I could talk hardly anyone into visiting...
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One of my most sensuous memories is of a tree, in a forest of...
Be More Japan, a hardback with lots of graphics covering a wide range...
Sintra was the playground of Portugal’s 19th-century rich, which explains why it has...
Bourbon is in a class all its own. It’s America’s only designated “native spirit,”...
Barbados has it nailed when it comes to tiny houses, painted in pastels of...
If you like Malbec, there’s no finer place to sample some of the world’s...
My last name is a dead giveaway to my German ancestry. But even though...
You can whip between Kyoto and Hiroshima in less than two hours on...
I love festivals, for their sheer exuberance, for their street food, and for the...