I had to pinch myself when I got a call from NHK in Tokyo telling me that they want to air a programme on my return trip to Japan. In my last blog post I talked about my return trip to Japan through JET called “satogaeri”: http://fionasjapanesecooking.blogspot.ie/2015/10/my-return-to-my-japanese-hometown-via.html As part of…
Last month a dream came true when my family and I returned to my Japanese hometown through the JET Satogaeri Programme. Over 10 years ago I worked as an English teacher through the JET programme in a small rural village in Japan called Nishiyama located in Niigata prefecture. NHK (Japan’s…
When we decided to head back to Japan this Autumn, it was quite a last minute decision and I was only left with 2 weeks to plan my trip. Honestly, that was quite scary for me as I usually plan my trips way in advance. Reason being that with the…
