When landing in Japan, one of the first things you will probably notice is that Japan is… Japanese. According to data from the CIA world factbook (see citation), Japan is 98.5% Japanese, about 0.5% Chinese, 0.4% Korean, and the remainder “other”, although other consists of a considerable amount of Americans, Europeans, etc. Due to Japan’s…
Monday, January 22 marks a rare event in Tokyo. That’s right, it snowed today. I was super excited throughout the day as I had never seen snowfall in my life. And out of all the places in the world where I could see snowfall, I never expected the first place to be Tokyo. This is…
The tone of this piece may come off as negative, but I just want to let you know that I am having a great time in Japan. This is what I was thinking on January 18, 2018. Thursday, January 18 marks a little over one week in Japan. My experience here thus far has been…
After a long 12.5-hour flight from LAX to HND, I finally touched down in Tokyo, Japan. I was so eager to enter Japan that I actually forgot my suit on the plane, but thankfully one of the flight attendants chased me down to hand it to me. As I was walking to the immigration line,…