Here are the features that came out in the Mar-Apr Japanagram
Hello, friend! It’s me, Jonelle. Here are the features that Japanagram subscribers enjoyed in March/April…
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Japanese home cooking: Sweet Sesame Spinach
As a veteran vegetable hater, I have a special spot in my grinchy heart for leafy greens, but this traditional Japanese way of cooking spinach is so good I can eat a bag of green stuff as big as my head and still go back for more…read more
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Beyond Tokyo: Let’s hike through a blooming wonderland
Every April, this temple’s kilometers upon kilometers of hiking trails look out on riotously blooming azaleas, as far as the eye can see. Around every bend, each view is more jaw-dropping than the last…read more
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The Thing I Learned Today: The Wizard of Oz is alive and well and living in Japan
Japanese train stations are a miracle of automation, with ticket machines spitting out the right ticket in the right amount with the right change millions of times a day. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that behind all this automatic perfection is…read more
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Why, Japan, Why?: You haven’t really seen Fiddler on the Roof until you’ve seen it in Japanese
From a thoroughly bewigged Mozart to a female Rhett Butler, Japanese musical theater adaptations never fail to— Do I really need to say more? Just click on this…
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Book Review: All I Asking For Is My Bodyby Milton Murayama
If you don’t read this for the infuriating, hilarious and inexplicable bits of Japanese culture that thrived in the Hawaiian cane camps of the 1930s, read it for a glimpse of the old Hawaii that existed before the islands became the tourist nirvana they…read more
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Jonelle Patrick writes mystery novels set in Tokyo, the monthly Japanagram newsletter, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had
Jonelle Patrick writes about Japan 