Nature is one of the great wonders of Japan. In that you wonder what happened to it all.
But look around. The hillsides of Kyushu terraced with rice paddies, fields of Hokkaido lavender as far as the eye can see, and deserted white sand beaches on remote Okinawan islands. There?s definitely some nature in Japan, still.
Japanese School Daze
So I was working at a Japanese middle school recently, dozing off in the teachers? lounge, when a cockroach the size of a cat skittered across the floor. Michiko-sensei screamed. That?ll wake you up in a hurry. Then the Vice Principle screamed. He used to be a wrestling coach, so that was a little alarming. Then the old lady who makes tea screamed, and nothing scares her. Then I looked down and screamed too. I mean, have you seen a Japanese cockroach" Terrifying, really. And in a flash, Saito-sensei turns to me and says, ?Oh Ken, you?re such a city boy.? And I was like, ?Whaa" Why me" Is this a white thing" And it?s ?Seeroi,? by the way. I was just screaming to be a team player.?
But I can understand why you might mistake me for an urbanite. I mean, with stylishly slim trousers, a manly man bag and two meticulously trimmed eyebrows, Ken Seeroi is the very picture of hunky metrosexual perfection.You?d never guess he was, at heart, a mountain man. But you, my friend, would be wrong.
Ken’s Life of Adventure
If you took all the nights I?ve spent in sleeping bags?not trying to brag, if only because homelessness is a t...