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Oka, the webmaster of this site, is a Japanese male coming from a suburban city of Tokyo. For further information, please click the button below right.

About this site

This site is made for purely non-commercial purposes. The webmaster made his first Japan-related internet site between 1996 and 1999 and a part of the contents can still be seen in the archive:

"Hamadayama Life" started in 2004 in order to up-to-date the old information contained in "Japan as it is" as well as to take up new topics which had not been handeled by the archived version. Emphasis is put on my daily life centered on Hamadayama, Suginami-Ward, Tokyo. After returnng home from more than three years stay in abroad, I restarted "Hamadayama Life" in April 2015.

This site is adjusted to Google Chrom 89.0.4389.114, Microsoft Edge 89.0.774.68 and Firefox 87.0.

What's new

• 05.01.2021 - Did Himiko live in Makimuku and was burried in Hashihaka?

• 04.08.2021 - Terunofuji - miracle come back to Ozeki

• 03.21.2021 - Death of Tanzania's 'bulldozer' President Magufuli

• 06.11.2015 - Hana - keeping a black-coated Shiba-Inu

• 11.18.2015 - Electronic handicraft and Akihabara now

• 10.06.2015 - Naoto and his country life as a rice farmer

• 06.01.2015 - Itakura - - adventurous life of a class mate from primary school

• 05.11.2015 - Minami-Kaikisen - boutique hotel with excellent kitchen and music

My first essay after resumption of "Hamadayama Life".
• 04.20.2015 - Sakura - what I missed most away from Japan