Travel

Nakatsu is a small city of 85,000 in Kyushu’s Oita Prefecture about halfway between the famous hot springs of Beppu to the ea...

The Naked Stranger is an aficionado for all things Japanese. People in his country even consider him an expert on the subject. He...

"Sting and his friends sing with Brazilian stars at a pay-per-view rainforest benefit concert?" This was my remark when asked ...

The Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) had been on my bucket list for years. A decade of pilgrimages to Sado Island’s Earth C...

The calendar on the wall of the hospital reception room reads 1974, and there are magazines on the shelves from 1971. Across the ...

Holding someone’s Olympic gold medal for the first time can be like holding their baby; it’s shiny and beautiful, but it’s a bit unsettling, and you don’t want to drop it, so you smile and hand it back after a few moments. 

If you are a stranger in this strange land, the Naked Stranger is just like you. He is not from around here. He comes from a ...

It is night by the time you arrive. You can barely make out the trampled barbed wire fence as you ease under it. Your backpack ca...