Tag: japan
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My Toru Watanabe Moment
I have now been two weeks here in Nara. By this time I’ve started to settle into my new environment, picking up on the habits and routine that will define the next three years of my life. Though the cherry blossoms had already long bloomed and started to fade before I arrived, I was lucky…
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Flying Out
In the words of Michael Scott, I am not superstitious… but I am a little stitious. I have kept quiet about my PhD application journey throughout last year as I was worried that talking about it might jinx it in some way, that it might put a curse upon me somehow that negated everything I…
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An Ode to the Subway
Anything involving trains is an instant like for me. There’s a story I tell all my friends from a time back in high school, when I discovered the LRT station near campus. I bought a ticket to the end of the line, and on the train just marveled at the expanse of residential areas, museums,…
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EIGASAI 2023
The Japan Foundation’s Japanese Film Festival has been a highlight of my annual viewing experience for a few years now. This is, after all, the festival that introduced me to long running favorites like If Cats Disappeared From The World (2016, dir. Akira Nagai) and Anthem of the Heart (2015, dir. Tatsuyuki Nagai), along with…
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A Random Walk Through Kyoto
Although our visas indicated that our official reason for visiting Japan was to attend a conference, in truth we were hardly ever spotted at the conference site. Except for maybe the first half of the first day, during the opening ceremonies (for the free dinner), and the day of our presentation, the rest of our…
Dominic Dayta 