Japan

What can we do from far away?

March 22, 2011

links

Our world is more connected than ever and it is getting more likely that people have at least a friend or two in places where an accident or natural disaster occurs. Some will have family and other stronger links, of course, but my point is that you are likely to feel closer to a place [...]

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Thirty Thousand Days

October 13, 2010

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When your boat arrives at the sacred island of Miyajima, the first thing you will notice is a big gate in the middle of the sea, a floating gate that seems to be the entrance to a sacred and different world. As you feel the wind in your face, you may also notice the colours [...]

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Heroes of Hiroshima

September 10, 2010

City of Hiroshima

Hiroshima today is a beautiful city. You don’t need to be an ace in history to know that this was the city where the first atomic bomb was ever dropped – and I’ve recently learned that the citizens of the city remembered it to the minute – August 6th 1945, 8:15AM. When and how that [...]

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Subtleness that Matters ∣ a cherry on top

May 11, 2010

Art of Hosting Japan

I recently received a gift of being able to join the Art of Hosting happening for the first time in Japan. Every meaningful conversation is of course fantastic, but this one in particular connected my passion for hosting learning with my deep curiosity about  Japan and Japanese culture. Talking to the participants I could understand [...]

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