Laura in Singapore

If you're in Bali, you can take a boat to Lombok, its rural and less templed neighbour. After a 2 hour drive across Lombok, you can take...

Though we've been back from Japan for over a month, the pictures provide blog material for much longer. Today we explore Shintoism, Ja...

Many aspects of Japanese society confused us. This busty badger, present in numerous restaurants, apparently also confuses the locals as to ...

Japanese food remains a mystery to much of the world due to the mainstream deliciousness of sushi. Basically, these raw fishes have bullie...

In Japan, no sport is bigger than baseball. And no team has crazier fans than Osaka's Hanshin Tigers. The Hanshin Tigers, founded in 1...

Welcome to Japan. Above, is a temple gate, called a torii . Below, is another torii . In Kyoto's Fushimi shrine, the toriis gather an...

Last Saturday was Vesak Day, a Buddhist holiday celebrating the life, enlightenment and passing of Buddha. We checked it out at a couple loc...