The author, Rocky OSAKI, is a managaer of <Fishing Center Mizube no Yakata>, a fishing base - BBQ house in Maze area of the Gero-city. Literally meaning <The house on the riverside>, this facility was built 10 years ago by the then village governement of Maze, now part of the Gero-city, for the purpose of […]

  
One of the advantages of staying in a international environment is to meet different people, they present not only a wide range of cultures but also personal histories, backgrounds and philosophies. One such example is Sue, speaking amazingly good Japanese. She is a school teacher, in fact sometimes a vice-principal of the Beechworth Secondary College, […]

  
In our ski school, the majority of instructors are Australians but we have also about 10 Japanese instructors. Here I  talk about Shinpei. He is 25 years old, coming from Toyoda city in the Aichi prefecture, the hometown of the world famous Toyota Motors. He studied cinema at university, and had a chance to study […]