I’ve been trying to find a good, preferably animated, way of explaining the nuclear power station situation in Japan to kids (and I guess a few...

In addition to the 5,000 readers of this blog there are nearly 4,000 teachers on my monthly newsletter that I write in Japanese. After the sad news fr...

Taking a lead from Margit’s excellent comment on yesterday’s post, today we’re back to usual with this week’s game from Mido F...

On Friday afternoon I was in the gym. Then, as what usually happens, automated earthquake alerts came up on all the TVs. This is quite normal and ther...

Thank you to everyone who wrote in asking where I was in the Japan earthquake. Luckily I was on the other side of the country and both myself and the ...