June started off the best way I know how: with plenty of opportunity to socialise.
Jul 10, 2022 • Subscribe
More like this
Japan Diary: June 2021
After a pretty uneventful May, I was determined to make June busier, even if just a little.
Japan Diary: February 2022
As much as I was hoping that February would bring more positivity… that didn’t exactly happen.
Japan Diary: July 2022
The start of July called for more organisation than I’m used to, but I was determined to hit the ground running. Time was running out to get things…
Japan Diary: May 2022
While my first few days of May were very uneventful, Golden Week was about to kick off properly.
Japan Diary: April 2022
Between having a rough few months and the self-imposed deadline to fulfil my Japan travel goals approaching, I figured that having a few days away would be the…
Japan Diary: January 2022
At the end of my last diary post, my positive COVID test had completely ruined my plans to fly back to Japan as scheduled. All of a sudden,…
Japan Diary: August 2022 {2/2}
Two days after visiting the Ofuna Kannon, I went to collect my last two stamps from my favourite temples in Yokohama.
Japan Diary: March 2022 {1/2}
I may live in Japan, but that doesn’t mean I let British holidays go by unobserved. So when Pancake Day fell on March 1st, I made a deliberate…
Japan Diary: August 2022 {1/2}
Usually I’d be starting this at the beginning of the month, then updating as things happened, but here I am, 6:30am on August 30th, typing my first sentences.…
Japan Diary: March 2022 {2/2}
After the earthquake on the 16th, it was back to life as normal.
Japan Diary: November 2021
Usually, my November diary would start off with anniversary celebrations marking the day I moved to Japan for the first time, but things didn’t really play out like…
Japan Diary: November 2020
After an October which felt like it lasted all of five minutes, November came around much quicker than I’d anticipated.
Japan Diary: December 2021
In the start of December, it was time for me to get organised. Yes, I’d barely slowed down since October, but I still had one last push before…
Japan Diary: July 2021
I started this month with the mindset that I would treat myself more.
Japan Diary: January 2021
Okay, so technically I’m starting this diary in December 2020, but considering that New Year’s celebrations usually span across two days, I think you can let me off.…
Japan Diary: December 2020
So… I’m going to be honest. The first two weeks of December were a complete write-off.
Japan Diary: August 2021
After a few days in Shizuoka Prefecture, I returned to Kanagawa with a vast stretch of summer holiday ahead of me.
Japan Diary: May 2021
May, as per usual, started with Golden Week. This would be my fourth, but like last year, I was pretty much stuck where I was. With State of…
Japan Diary: October 2021
In my last diary post, I predicted that October was going to be busier and I was certainly right. However, a lot of that ‘busy-ness’ was behind the…
Japan Diary: October 2020
After September saw my routine almost return to ‘normal’, October was spent trying to find the right balance.
Japan Diary: February 2021
When I said I didn’t see much changing this month, I was swiftly proven right with an extension to the State of Emergency. After already spending a month…
Japan Diary: April 2021
The start of April saw me back on the road again, taking the opportunity to have a spontaneous, yet cautious trip further south.
Japan Diary: March 2021
Well, another month has passed of mainly staying at home, going to work and restarting the same cycle the next morning. I can’t pretend that I haven’t been…
Japan Diary: September 2021
While the first of September saw the kids go back to school, it wasn’t exactly the return we’d imagined.
Reading Log: June 2022
Given the backlog went up last month, my bare minimum this month is to have reduced the count of that. Let’s see what happened.
TakaTempest NEWSWIRE June 2022
Reblogged on WordPress.com
June 2022 Monthly Favorites
Well folks, we are back at it again with another installment of the Monthly Favorites series. By now you all know how this series works so I won’t…
Spiraken Manga News Ep 46: June 9th 2022 - June 15th 2022
Let's find out the latest manga news with our latest podcast In this episode, Xan discusses the latest Comiket news and some new licenses. Remember to Like, Share and Subscribe.…
Japan Gender Reader: June – Dec 2017
In this gender reader: how to discuss nonbinary genders in Japanese, gross anime tropes, a shôjo manga release and a 20th anniversary, and more!
NEWSWIRE: June 2022 Pre-Orders
A new month is here, and June is a month with some big releases on our store, as our work on the likes of BELLE and Future Boy…
![Featured image for [Monthly Overview] June 2022 Overview](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20220618/1655533377.37970.67213.jpg)
[Monthly Overview] June 2022 Overview
Visit the post for more.
Author Journey (June 20, 2022)
I’ve been thinking about how my perfect day might go and how last week every single day did its best to ensure that it remained a fantasy. In…
Author Journey (June 13, 2022)
It was another busy week on all fronts, but I still managed to binge another series and write up another set of posts. At this rate, I’ll hit…
[Editorials Update] January-June 2022
Hello and welcome. This is the first batch of 2022 editorials which I posted on my blog as well as other sites devoted to Asian cinema and d...
Author Journey (June 6, 2022)
It was a short week thanks to my night in Washington and getting back into the flow of things was difficult with several real-life family events. So, I…
Author Journey (June 27, 2022)
Another productive week despite the universe’s attempts to derail me. I mean, who needs sleep? That said, I am looking forward to the summer holidays and a bit…
Game of the Month: June 2022
This month, I thought I was only gonna buy one, maybe two, games at best. Yeah, that didn’t happen… so I’ve got a few honourable mentions before I…
Listening/reading log #31 (June 2022)
Everything is shit and we’re all doomed. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to the music and the posts from around the community as usual,…
Steam Next Fest | June 2022 | Recommendations
Investigate the mysterious Mason family as a cute, chubby housecat, or find yourself (and love) as a newly-purchased android…
Otaku Collection Haul for June 2022
This month’s haul includes multiple batches of manga, but we also have the Birthday haul and a batch of pre-orders finally getting released.
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights June 2022
In June, Kio Shimoku saw a bunch of movies and it was rad. He also responded to a question I asked him! Following up on some tweets from…
Howling (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Jason Maher reviews M Haris Sheikh's neo noir Howling.
Angry Son (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Jason Maher reviews Kashou Iizuka's drama Angry Son.
Random Call (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Jason Maher reviews Riki Ohkanda's comedy-drama Random Call.
![Featured image for Straying (2022) review [Camera Japan 2022]](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20220914/1663121940.43600.74074.jpg)
Straying (2022) review [Camera Japan 2022]
A pleasant and charming exploration of the fact that, within the game of love and romance and beyond, subjects often rely on acting-out to reveal to the other…
Bagmati River (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Jason Maher reviews Yusaku Matsumoto's short film Bagmati River.
![Featured image for Summer Wedding (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20220624/1656053576.38286.67593.jpg)
Summer Wedding (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Jason Maher reviews Azusa Hieda’s short film Summer Wedding.
D&A’s Checkpoint Check-In! (June 2022)
Wow, we’re down to the last day of June 2022; which means that the first six months of the year have come and gone. A lot has happened…
What I’ve Been Up To – June 2022
Oh, hey! It’s been a while. The last couple years have been busy for me, and unfortunately I haven’t been able to get much writing done. Not for…