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Where I Live, Twenty Years Ago

April 7th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

My little neighborhood here in Japan has pretty much been in existence for twenty years. I came across an old aerial photo of the housing estate on which I live during its construction in 1989.

You can clearly see the baseball ground there, and there’s a small hospital, too, which still stands today. Beyond that, in [...]

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Gifu Kakamigahara Incinerator

November 8th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

A five-minute drive from our house into the mountains and we’re at the Gifu Kakamigahara Incinerator. Yes, if you read Oh My Gomi - Part 2, you’ll realize this was the place I finally disposed of a bug infested, five-year-old bag of rubbish.

Living near an enormous, heavy duty incinerator
The convenience of living so near to a giant [...]

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Gifu Going Hi-Tech: Techno Plaza

October 17th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

For the last few years, I’ve lived in Gifu Prefecture in central Japan. Gifu is mostly made up of the old provinces of Hida and Mino, and has historically been the center of swordmaking. More recently though, with the opening of Chubu International Airport and the completion of the Tokai Loop Expressway, a large number [...]

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AEON Kakamigahara Shopping Center

September 4th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Mami still hasn’t been to the new shopping center that opened recently in Kakamigahara. Saying that, she hasn’t been out much at all since the baby was born. I, on the other hand, get to drive past the AEON shopping mall on my way to and from work everyday, so I had the pleasure of [...]

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The Sun Sets on Kakamigahara

August 29th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

I’m not much of a photographer, but Mike convinced me to get a new camera after writing about his Nikon Coolpix S200. I’ve been looking a lot at stock photos recently, and thought it would be great to submit my own photos for sale on the web, but I’m going to have to put in [...]

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Cherry Blossoms

April 1st, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

With Japan’s hanami season underway, Mami and I thought we would take a stroll down the river to see what this year’s “cherry blossom viewing” season had to offer. While we were walking under the sakura, I told Mami a story I had heard from one of my students a couple of weeks ago.
Apparently, K-chan [...]

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My home in the countryside

January 30th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

My first five years in Japan were spent living in downtown Nagoya, among the skyscrapers, train stations and other concrete structures. Most parks were simply gravel areas for kids to run around on. Now, nearly ten years after coming to Japan, I’m living in what the Japanese would call ‘the countryside’. So I thought I’d [...]

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Aeon Jusco in Kakamigahara, Gifu!

January 28th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

I’m really excited about the new shopping center they’re building on the other side of town. One thing I love about Japan is the convenience of everything, and when it comes to shopping, you can’t beat a shopping center. In all honesty, there’s nothing particularly different between modern shopping malls in Japan and the ones [...]

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