Japan. Cherry blossom, sushi, the bullet train. The usual picture of a geisha, real or a fake. The usual stereotypes. Since my first time in Japan, almost twenty years have passed. For almost eight years I have been living there. I cannot count how many times italian friends asked me if I was tired of sushi…
Americamura (that translates in “american village”) is a small district of Osaka, connected to the large shopping and entertainment area of Shinsaibashi.Americamura, or most comonly Amemura, is the place for cheap,casual or alternative fashion. It is also a good place for cheap junk food. It is a good place to spend a day walking through…
CHAPTER I: TSUNAMI TWO MONTHS LATER CHAPTER II: TWO DAYS ON FUKUSHIMA CHAPTER III: FUKUSHIMA 2.0 TSUNAMI TWO MONTHS LATER Two months after the tsunami that hit the north east of Japan, I left Kyoto to join a group of volounteers of Caritas Japan (link). Purpose of the trip was, mainly, to help local people,…
If you get the subway at Shinsaibashi, in few stops you reach Dōbutsuen-mae station. When you get out, Osaka’s landscape has completely changed.No more trendy young people doing “bura-bura” (hanging out), Shinsaibashi’s and Dōtonbori’s big billboards are gone, department stores turned suddenly into small old fashioned shops.Walk a few hundreds meter south and you are…
