Category: Life’s Adventures

Every person has experiences that no one else has. Even if other people have gone through the same things, their viewpoint of it will differ. These articles are meant to entertain and to be used as references in your writing.

Challenges I Faced as an American Living in Japan – Guest Post by Lea O’Harra

I first arrived in Japan in the spring of ’84 to take up a job I had got while completing my doctorate on 18th century English literature at Edinburgh University. I had been hired as a “Guest Professor of English” by a new university located in a fishing village in northern Shikoku. Shikoku is one of Japan’s four main islands, but it is also the smallest, the most rural and, at that time – before the construction of bridges linking it to Honshu and Kyushu – the most remote.