Matt Holland
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I’m a Canadian majoring in finance at a university in Kyoto, with a few of my many loves being the complex beauty of asset management, exploring old rural roads and hiking trails of Japan, running, and well, kanji.
京都にある某大学経済学部にてファイナンスを専攻しているホーランドという、奥深い神秘の知り尽くしえない資産運用、ひと気のない日本の地方を通る道や春＆秋の山路、また、全面的に漢字などに関心を惹かれるカナダ人でございます。
Latest posts by Matt Holland
16 March 2011
Japan: Earthquakes Moving South? Anxiety Builds in Kansai
Just days after the massive earthquake which struck northeastern Japan, further geological tremors are taking place elsewhere on the island of Honshu. A series of quakes naturally has people living west of said areas feeling a bit nervous about what is to come.
16 August 2010
Japan: Ogasawara Islands to be next UNESCO site?
With access limited to a chartered ship which sets sail once every six days or so, the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島) are assuredly among the least accessible parts of Tokyo (where...
24 May 2010
Japan: 1300 years in the making, celebration in Nara
While both culturally and physically a long ways from the modern capital of Tokyo, tracing back well over a thousand years into Japanese history one comes across Nara, a quiet,...
17 November 2009
Japan: Deer wrangling and antler-cutting in Nara
Nestled in the heart of the Kansai region of Japan, Nara City exudes a subdued atmosphere unique from its neighboring Osaka and Kyoto. If there is a particular symbol of...
21 October 2009
Inheritance tax and children in limbo: adoption in Japan.
Adoption in Japan is a statistically under-represented, multi-dimensional issue. Young families seeking children, inheritance tax-evading grandchild adoptions, conservative opposition to confusing family blood-lines, and loosely regulated groups illegally netting profit from international adoptions out of Japan.
4 August 2009
The Sun went out over Japan recently.
The Sun grew dark and the morning skies dimmed down just before 11:00am on July 22, 2009 in Japan, where it has been more than four decades since a total solar eclipse has been visible.
please keep us updated with english here. we are trying to follow the protests from...