Issue 27

I’ve mentioned my father was also deaf and, like me, had a great love for the outdoors. He spent most of his youth hiking, campin...

Just before sitting down to pen this month’s column, I came down with a bad cold—from stomach pains and nausea to the eventual fe...

From the ‘Land of Sky Blue Waters... A place as natural and remote as Kumano, straddling the border between Wakayama and Mie pref...

Champuru is one of Okinawa’s more famous dishes. The name changes depending on the mix of ingredients, such as tofu, a variety of...

I get off the bus at Miyagi Station and begin my two-hour walk to the Asosan trailhead. I am well rested, my pack feels less heav...

The brilliant green coastline along the Bay of Plenty seems to stretch on forever. Void of man-made objects other than the road i...

Trail running is now a sport in its own right rather than just trail practice by marathon masochists. Mountains and forests have ...

The cold beaches of winter lay silent except for the pounding waves on the shore. I don my hood and race through the oncoming wal...

Scarpa Hurricane BootスカルパハリケーンブーツStill debating about the impact skiing has on the environment? Scarpa has made it a bit easier t...

"There are only three real sports: Mountaineering, race car driving and bullfighting." —Ernest Hemingway Hemingway was ont...

There is an area at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula known as “Kumano” where you can wander through villages, listen to loca...

If your plans for buying property in Japan have been put on hold because of the recent economic downturn, don’t abandon your drea...

Obtaining a loan to finance your dream house has become easier over the past few years. Despite the market turmoil, several lende...

Buying real estate in Japan need not be much more difficult than it would be in one’s own country. Here we’ll take you through th...

With economic uncertainty throughout the market, blood pressures running high and Japan and much of the world mired in a recessio...

There are plenty of myths floating around about purchasing property in Japan. To separate the fiction from the fact, we went to t...

Whether it’s the resort lifestyle, the simple life, or you simply want a little place to put your hands in the soil, there are ma...