Not just a frog

“kaeru” is Japanese for frog… When you spell it out in the Japanese alphabet, hiragana, it’s ka-e-ru. There are about 50 hiragana “letters”, which function like syllables and they’re always pronounced the same no matter how they’re combined. Compare that …

What’s in a title?

So, why have I chosen to call this blog “Two Years of Sushi”? The answer is quite simple, if a little naive (but who could possibly hope to capture a culture so rich as Japan’s in a few words?!): I love …