Ben Taylor

This post refers to the 22nd of March, where I joined my friend Taro and two friends of his for lunch in Akihabara. Leaving Blair's re...

Some movie or famous person must have once said something like this: We are fast catching the present! If not, you saw it here first, folk...

[Continued directly from 'Old Friends, New Country'] Auspiciously, all these themed restaurants were nigh contiguous, so walking t...

Chronologically, this post refers to the evening of Sunday the 7th of March, which is also the day I wrote my first post. I left Takanawa t...

Forgive me if the title seems cryptic to you. Natto is a traditional Japanese dish, made from soybeans fermented with bacteria. The purpose ...

Saturday, the third of April, a striking day. Approximately 12:30 I was had just started pacing around in the kitchen, trying to decide wh...

I hope I remember never to comment on the proximity of my posts to the present. Historically, such comments have shown 100% correlation to f...

[Continued directly from 'Enlightenment'] "Let's do it." We walked, or more accurately: froze in the 4 degree, win...

I am still behind, chronologically, on blog posts. This post refers to Friday, the 26th of March. Today I had a job interview. I have been...

In recent history... In June I started Aikido. I met a friend at Leafcup, my work, who had been doing Aikido for a year. He explained it a...