Briefly in Japan — April 2014: Best background guide to practical, culture, ideas

HOW TO USE THIS BLOG

This is a personal travel report but may help others in planning travel in Japan. The most important needs are confidence and research.

The blog is not entirely in chronological order, time got away. I am trying to give 'labels' to each entry so you can track a subject. The 'labels' produce the 'subjects covered' below.

You can also use the search engine.

I have visited Japan before on official foreign service business, this my first time truly free to wander. I trained as an anthropologist, my partner Helen works in social policy. Our interests in life and beauty, the beauty of life in nature.

Seeking impressions of life. As they came at me... So you also get your own impressions of us :-)

"We saw that Life did not narrate, but made impressions on our brains. We, in turn, if we wished to produce on you an effect of life, must not narrate but render impressions."

Ford Madox Ford
in a memoir regarding his collaboration with Joseph Conrad, quoted by A.S Byatt in her introduction to
Ford's The Fifth Queen, Penguin edition London 1999.