鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day 14 October is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) ‘Railway Day’ in Japan, marking the anniversary of the opening of the first railway. That first line ran from Shimbashi to Yokohama. The original Shim…

Today is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day in Japan

#鉄道の日 #TetsudoNoHi #RailwayDay #Japan #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Memorialisation #Research #HijackingJapan #OnThisDay #OTD

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Bridging Different Worlds: Academic Experiences and Writing Novels I am delighted to have my proposal for a paper, ‘Bridging Different Worlds: Academic Experiences and Writing Novels’, be accepted for the Japan Writers Conference in November 2025. The …

Bridging Different Worlds: Academic Experiences and Writing Novels

#Writing #AcademicExperiences #AcademicWriting #WritingNovels #Novels #Japan #JapanWritersConference #WritingCommunity #FOUR #HijackingJapan #Tokyo2020Vision

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Takasaki Byakue Daikannon As noted in my post about the Maruki Gallery, I changed my plans for 11 August due to the weather in Ueno-mura. In Saitama and the plain of Gunma, it was a hot, sunny day. Having finished at the ga…

Takasaki Byakue Daikannon

#Japan #Takasaki #TakasakiByakueDaikannon #Kannon #高崎白衣大観音 #HijackingJapan

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Hijacking Japan It was meant to be a chance to escape the hustle and bustle of Tokyo. Nicola was working hard as an English teacher in Japan; she desperately needed a holiday. A long weekend with her boyfriend, Ak…

And if you're into exciting shinkansen-based stories, check out my novel "Hijacking Japan".

#Shinkansen #BulletTrainExplosion #新幹線大爆破 #Japan #HijackingJapan

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鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day 14 October is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) ‘Railway Day’ in Japan, marking the anniversary of the opening of the first railway. That first line ran from Shimbashi to Yokohama. The original Shim…

鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day

#鉄道の日 #TetsudoNoHi #RailwayDay #Japan #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Memorialisation #Research #HijackingJapan #OnThisDay #OTD

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Spaces Pressures at Home (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition)) Japan: The Basics contains many photographs (all taken by me) to help with the discussions in the book. I have previously done individual posts on each of the photos that were in the first edition tha...

Space Pressures at Home (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition))

#Japan #JapanTheBasics #Tokyo #House #Tatami #Itabashi #NakaItabashi #HijackingJapan

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Appearance on the Hanshin Tigers English News Podcast

#HanshinTigers #Podcast #JAL123 #JL123 #HijackingJapan #Tokyo2020Vision #FOUR #阪神タイガース @thehanshintiger

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鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day

#鉄道の日 #TetsudoNoHi #RailwayDay #Japan #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Memorialisation #Research #HijackingJapan #OnThisDay #OTD

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鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day 14 October is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) ‘Railway Day’ in Japan, marking the anniversary of the opening of the first railway. That first line ran from Shimbashi to Yokohama. The original Shim…

鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day #鉄道の日 #TetsudoNoHi #RailwayDay #Japan #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Memorialisation #Research #HijackingJapan #OnThisDay #OTD

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12 August – A Key Date in the Year Today seems like an appropriate day to come back from over a month’s break from writing blog posts and using social media (other than responding to a few tagged posts, for example). When maki…

12 August – A Key Date in the Year

#JAL123 #JL123 #Japan #OnThisDay #OTD #HijackingJapan #Anniversary #Memorialisation #Remember #Remembering

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Interview for the Compounding Curiosity Podcast As I have referred to in a few posts recently (My Favourite Shinkansen: The E3-Series Shinkansen, My Favourite Shinkansen: The 200-Series Shinkansen, Designs That Defined Modern Japan: Shinkansen, …

I was recently interviewed about my research on the shinkansen for the Compounding Curiosity podcast.

#Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Podcast #HijackingJapan #Japan #Research

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Interview for the Compounding Curiosity Podcast As I have referred to in a few posts recently (My Favourite Shinkansen: The E3-Series Shinkansen, My Favourite Shinkansen: The 200-Series Shinkansen, Designs That Defined Modern Japan: Shinkansen, …

I was recently interviewed about my research on the shinkansen for the Compounding Curiosity podcast.

#Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Podcast @ScarrottKalani #HijackingJapan #Japan #Research

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鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day 14 October is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) ‘Railway Day’ in Japan, marking the anniversary of the opening of the first railway. That first line ran from Shimbashi to Yokohama. The original Shim…

鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day

#鉄道の日 #TetsudoNoHi #RailwayDay #Japan #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Memorialisation #Research #HijackingJapan

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Timing Challenges in My Novels When I started writing my first novel Hijacking Japan, I had no idea that it would take so many years to write. Nor did I realise what the consequences of this would be. When I started writing Hija…

Timing Challenges in My Novels

#WritingCommunity #WritingProblems #TimingChallenges #Timing #Challenges #Novels #WIP #indieauthor #HijackingJapan #Tokyo2020Vision #Japan

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U2 in Concert in Japan I wouldn’t classify U2 as one of my favourite groups. I didn’t include any of their albums in my post of favourite/influential albums. But there are a lot of their singles that I love a…

U2 in Concert in Japan

#U2 #Concert #Japan #VertigoTour #Saitama #BeautifulDay #HijackingJapan

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U2 in Concert in Japan I wouldn’t classify U2 as one of my favourite groups. I didn’t include any of their albums in my post of favourite/influential albums. But there are a lot of their singles that I love a…

U2 in Concert in Japan

#U2 #Concert #Japan #VertigoTour #Saitama #BeautifulDay #HijackingJapan

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Photographing the Shinkansen: The Hokuriku Shinkansen I have already done some posts about taking photos of the shinkansen. This one is a bit different as rather than focus on one location, it covers a whole line. Also, as yet, I’ve not had a ch…

Photographing the Shinkansen: The Hokuriku Shinkansen

#HokurikuShinkansen #NaganoShinkansen #AnnakaHaruna #Ueda #Nagano #Iiyama #Toyama #Kanazawa #HijackingJapan #Novels #Photography #Japan

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Favourite Places in Japan: Ichigaya

#Tokyo #Japan #HijackingJapan #Ichigaya #Ochanomizu

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Matsumoto Castle Japan has many wonderful castles, but my favourite is probably Matsumoto Castle in Nagano prefecture. Matsumoto was the first place that I went to on my first (of what was to become many) JR Passes…

Matsumoto Castle

#MatsumotoCastle #Matsumoto #Japan #Nagano #HijackingJapan #Novel #NovelLocation #Castle

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Finding Locations: Sakura Cafe in Ikebukuro When writing my novels, there are times when I already have a location in mind and I try to find a way to get it into the book. A good example of this is the hotel in Hijacking Japan. There are oth…

Finding Locations: Sakura Cafe in Ikebukuro

#Sakura #Ikebukuro #Tokyo #Japan #SakuraCafe #Cafe #Novel #HijackingJapan @ikebukuro_hotel

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Photographing the Shinkansen: Takasaki I have already done a few posts about taking photos of the shinkansen and my previous post was about Urasa on the Joetsu Shinkansen. This post is about photographing the shinkansen at another stati…

Photographing the Shinkansen: Takasaki

#Takasaki #高崎 #Japan #Photography #Shinkansen #JoetsuShinkansen #YasuhiroNaksasone #Nakasone #HijackingJapan #Novels

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Photographing the Shinkansen: Urasa I have already done a few posts about taking photos of the shinkansen. This one is a little bit different in that it’s centred around taking pictures at a station, namely Urasa (浦佐) on the Jo…

Photographing the Shinkansen: Urasa

#Urasa #浦佐 #KakueiTanaka #Shinkansen #JoetsuShinkansen #Novels #HijackingJapan #Photography #Japan

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Yuzawa Yuzawa (湯沢) in Niigata prefecture is a small town (population of less than 8,000) that I have visited many times – but never stayed at. That I have been there so many times is thanks to the f…

Yuzawa

#shinkansen #EchigoYuzawa #GalaYuzawa #Yuzawa #Niigata #湯沢 #HijackingJapan #Tanigawa #Doai #indieauthors #SnowCountry #IwakuraSeries

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Contents Tourism – The New Otani Hotel In the next of my posts on contents tourism (if you don’t know what contents tourism is, please see my post about Tanigawa and Ichi-no-kurasawa), I will be focussing on The New Otani hotel in…

Contents Tourism – The New Otani Hotel

#ContentsTourism #JamesBond #007 #YouOnlyLiveTwice #Tokyo #Japan #HijackingJapan #IndieAuthors

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