During summer months, you can find sweets joints and cafes serving kakigoori virtually everywhere in Japan.

I like to visit Sasebo’s former naval cemetery at Highasi Park from time to time, looking at ship memorials and enjoying the changing seasons there.

My wife, Yeon Hee, and I taxied from our downtown Busan hotel to Busan Ferry Terminal at dawn under expanding sunny skies that heralded a promising trip to Tsushima Island nestled between Korea’s biggest port city and Japan’s main island of Honshu.

Head out beyond Japan’s big four to explore the strange, the scary and the sublime.

Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman (HM) Jamarh Dixon, Bureau of Naval Personnel, HM enlisted community manager, speaks with a Professional Apprenticeship Career Track Sailor.

When you move to Japan, one of the most common activities you’ll encounter is shopping at a local grocery store.

Night skies in the Land of the Rising Sun blaze with the brilliance of fireworks, nearly every weekend in August.

Seaside Night of Light and Wind will be held on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from August 15 through September 27, transforming the park’s Plaza of Light and Wind into a glowing seaside evening destination.

Japan likes to say the Shinkansen arrived just in time for the Olympics. But in truth, it arrived in spite of everything.

A story my mother-in-law tells me, made me reminisce of the musings of Louise Bourgeois, a French American artist losing herself in her hometown. “