Return the chocolate at triple value. March through Ōsu in green. Send in your 90s bar photos. Head for the hills.
White Day Revenge
White Day is this Saturday. The return-gift holiday that Nagoya helped invent — built on obligation, reciprocity, and a cultural expectation that whatever you received in February comes back at three times the value. Doug explains how it happened and what to do about it.
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St. Pat's in Ōsu
The parade rolls through the Ōsu arcades on March 21 — green hats, fiddles, gathering at the Maneki-neko from noon. That evening it moves to Brazil Coffee in Kanayama: Irish folk, Hammond organ, and Korean garage rock.
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Your 90s Japan Story
Theatre Iridescence is staging Much Ado About Nothing set inside a late-90s expat dive bar in Japan. They want photos and stories from people who lived here 1995–2005 — cramped bars, house parties, late nights in Sakae. The best ones may end up on stage.
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Escape the City
Six day hikes within easy reach of Nagoya — the historic Nakasendo trail between Tsumago and Magome, a gorge in the Kiso Valley, a castle summit above Gifu, and views across the Japan Alps. Worth bookmarking before summer humidity sets in.
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