Jamaican blogger living in rural Japan

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered

Final Fantasy VIII is my favourite Final Fantasy game of all time. It is usually tagged as the “black sheep” of th

Arakura Fuji Sengen Shrine is the poster child for scenic views of Mount Fuji and a landscape that changes drastically with th

I have stayed away from the buzz around Amiibo for a long time. I didn’t own a Nintendo Switch until recently and I real

I don’t claim to stay in touch with all the racial and identity battles raging in Japan for a while now. However, I can&

Mount Fuji is a huge draw for tourists and so on all kinds of the mountain, there are various attractions competing for their

I have been playing Fire Emblem Three Houses as often as I can over the past 2 weeks. I bought a Nintendo Switch recently, cli

At long last, I have joined the Nintendo Switch club after taking advantage of an Amazon Japan Prime day deal. Bitter about a

I have now travelled to more than half of Japan’s 47 prefectures. I don’t really have a goal to visit them all but

Ten years ago I uploaded my first video to YouTube. Like any YouTuber that has ever YouTubed, it is of course… an embarr

E3 2019 was stuffed full of games. Now that I have to chance to go through the new games, trailers and announcements at a slow

Super Metroid is an action-adventure game that was released on the Super Nintendo 25 years ago. It was developed and published

The written word is a powerful thing. The now cliche Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote that “The pen is mightier than the sword

E3 2019 didn’t disappoint even though Sony was absent. All the games I was looking forward to seeing were present althou

I am still very much on my journey to learn Japanese – a journey that will never end. A recent success was passing The f

My Skirt, Where Did It Go? or Ore no Sukato, Doko Itta? is a Japanese drama about a cross-dressing gay teacher who starts work

I’m having so much fun playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and one of the best things about the game is that it comes in J

This year the Golden Week in Japan was a 10 day stretch of holidays due to the New emperor ascending to the throne and the cha

The dreaded day I feared has arrived. I was stopped, searched, probed and embarrassed in a crowded Shibuya 50 metres from the

So you have started studying Japanese? Or maybe you have been studying for a while? or stopping and starting over many years?

So you want to move to Japan but have no idea about living expenses or cost of living in Japan? Especially utilities and such.

I’ve clocked up about 5 hours playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and wanted to do a first impressions video of the game

So you want to attempt the Japanese Language proficiency test starting at the N5. Don’t let anyone troll you that its th

I love video games, I am learning Japanese so why not combine the two? I’ve played a lot of video games that offer spoke

Six months ago I announced that I failed the N5 level of the Japanese Language proficiency test. I tried to be positive about