HAPPY NEW YEAR, THE BEST BEEF YOU EVER TASTED, AN AMAZING TOUR I wish that all of your family members, friends and colleagues are safe and healthy in 2021. We are in history at a key moment. We see so many suffering in society. We hope the herd immunity will happen by early fall in 2021, and we can resume life the way we enjoyed it in the past but with much more appreciation. The year 2021 begins a new chapter in my teaching career. I will be offering cooking classes...
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ANNOUNCEMENT, ABOUT KYUSHU & KYUSHU PREMIUM AND ITINERARY This is the third Kyushu tour to be offered and conducted by Hiroko; This exclusive tour takes place in Kyushu, one of the most fascinating and important regions of Japan in matters of cuisine, foreign influence and history and geology. If you have been to Japan previously and perhaps experienced Tokyo and Kyoto, you will find the Kyushu experience enlightening, fascinating and, above all, enjoyable. If this is...
Read MoreMy Mother 2: My Mother and Beer
My mother finally departed on September 29, 2020. She was a dedicated, joyful, open, hard-working and loving person. She enjoyed a full life in her 93 years on earth. Here is my mother’s story No. 2. My Mom one day as she sat in his lap, watched her father gulping down a small glass of beer. She was 5 years old. Her father’s contented, big smile with some white beer foam attached around his moustache were so impressive that my Mom couldn’t stop watching him. Feeling...
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The world has been dramatically changing under the Covid-19 pandemic. Once upon a time life was slower, more mellow, and gentler for me. I was a boomer. I begin to feel that I am a dinosaur. And my mother turned to 93 this year. She had health issues but was happy and in good spirits and had a healthy appetite until 6 weeks ago. She led her life even at her late age in the same way she has been doing for the adult part of her 93 years. This means that she did her...
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KYUSHU PREMIUM: KYUSHU WITH HIROKO 2021, November 3-15 This is the third Kyushu tour to be offered and conducted by Hiroko; This exclusive tour takes place in Kyushu, one of the most fascinating and important regions of Japan in matters of cuisine, foreign influence and history and geology. If you have been to Japan previously and perhaps experienced Tokyo and Kyoto, you will find the Kyushu experience enlightening, fascinating and, above all, enjoyable. If this is your...
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KYUSHU PREMIUM November 3 – 15, 2020 ABOUT KYUSHU AND KYUSHU PREMIUM Kyushu, the southernmost large island of Japan, is chock-full of incredible interests of so many kinds. I had visited Kyushu in past years on business. During such trips I didn’t experience what inquisitive and interested visitors can do in Kyushu, so I had little idea of the huge variety of amazing sights and experiences Kyushu can offer to us. In 2017 I decided to make Kyushu the next destination...
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