Comics

When I arrived in Japan I was surprised countless times by how low the ceilings were. I often hit my head on many different objects like door frames, oven hoods and kitchen cabinets.

— 07 April, 2025

My first week in Fukuoka I set off the fire alarm in the building multiple times. The second time the alarm went off, two Japanese men came to my room to check on me. When the entered the room they...

— 09 April, 2025

When messaging my Airbnb host to confirm if I would be able to enter my room late at night I got an interesting response in English: No problem, I’ll put it in ^_^ That’s when I realized our messages were...

— 11 April, 2025

For some reason my Airbnb host doesn’t want me to take the trash out on my own. I think it’s because I’m a Gaijin (外人, outsider or foreigner). After cooking some delicious chicken and eggs I had some left over...

— 14 April, 2025

Shortly after arriving to Fukuoka, I hit up Nitori, one of my favorite stores. They sell home goods and often when renting an airbnb there are some things that are missing or need replacing — like scratched tephlon frying pans....

— 19 April, 2025

While relentlessly bashing my head into the cabinetry of my Fukuoka mansion I eventually devised a plan so genius that it would stop all future head banging. … Or so I thought. After hitting my head countless times I tried...

— 02 May, 2025

Being cooped up inside a small, narrow apartment is bound to cause some muscle tightness. Where better to stretch than the great outdoors? … Or so I thought. Cyclists in Japan very often ride their bikes on sidewalks, meaning. Every...

— 03 May, 2025

It seems like every restaurant, cafe or store I go to has an extremely hard and small seat. Every time I get up from my seat my lower back hurts a lot. Am I really the only one with this...

— 04 May, 2025

When going to meet a friend at Hakata station I accidentally mispronounced the name of the gate (exit) I was looking for. Instead of CHIKU-SHI gate, I said CHIKU-SHO, which is an expletive something along the lines of damn it!...

— 05 May, 2025

When I met my friend Taku one day we were talking about what we were doing. I told him about how I went to Daiso and bought fish bone tweezers (骨hone抜きnuki) and a fish scaler (鱗uroko引きhiki). When Taku misunderstood my...

— 12 May, 2025