Japan in the time before humans (Japan and Me supplement one)

A few words of introduction. Midway through my research into the early geology of Japan it struck me that over all the years and entries I’ve made in this travel blog I’ve provided little, if any, information about my process …

Notes on the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2021 (Japan and Me addendum two)

Delay of Games. There was almost certainly a heightened level of anticipation in Tokyo and to a degree around the world when clocks ticked from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00 and 31 December 2019 became 1 January 2020. It meant the arrival …

Notes on the XVIII Olympiads – Tokyo 1964 and Nagano 1998 (Japan and Me addendum one)

Some of you might be wondering why the title of today’s post refers to two cities and two years but only one Olympiad. The answer is that when Tokyo hosted the Summer Games in 1964, it was the Eighteenth Summer …