by *mandy wong* magic sleeps between the lines look within to find the signs where aura and dream keepers rest reality becomes the test unicorns & speaking trees breathe to feed the moments need for the forgetting & for the stuck intention & courage determine luck on a quest to find where…
Hello baseball fans! Have you ever wanted to watch a Hanshin Tigers game in Japan? Here are my tips to get the most out of your experience: Arrive early; Check out the Museum & the Shrine Koshien Stadium is located on the Hanshin Line, between Nishinomiya and Amagasaki. Don’t get confused by…
On April the 17th, of 2016, the book club met at Rough Rare (its second time hosting) to discuss Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites. It is a fictional imagining of the final months of Iceland’s last citizen to face the death penalty. Agnes Magnusdottir begins the book nearly inhuman and covered in her own…
With the application deadline fast approaching, we of HAJET thought you may enjoy reading some of our reasons for volunteering our services. Read on for more. Ashlie O’Neill I first joined Hyogo AJET in 2014 when I began my 2nd year. I joined because I wanted to help out the JET…
 This year’s JETs have the opportunity to go to a truly special event: the Setouchi Triennale. Every three years this festival ignites the sleepy islands scattered between Kagawa and Okayama prefectures with a blaze of modern art. Many of these islands would have almost nothing to offer outside the festival season, but this…
There was a change to the morning routine when Henry suddenly looked up from his porridge one day and said to his husband Frank, “Your mother still hasn’t seen Sam.†Frank didn’t look back from trying to aim mushed banana into his son’s mouth, “She sees him all the time. Here comes the aeroplane, 
This past month, a group of us ventured out to Brasiliano, an all you can eat Brazilian Meat restaurant in Kobe’s Harborland Mall (definitely give it a try if you’re a meat lover.) Toward the end of the meal, we ordered a giant dish of a pineapple dessert that was pretty delicious and an…
Where it went down If you’re like me, when you applied to JET you put Tokyo as you preferred placement city, but ended up on an island called Awaji, in a town called Sumoto. I gave that town two years of my life (2013-2015) and would gladly give it 20. Good fishing there. Precious…
Despite being internationally recognized as merely a territory or province of the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan has many traits which distinguish its culture and people. Having heard nothing but good things from friends who have traveled and/or lived there, it easily earned a spot on my must-visit list. Thus, with two companions,…