This is a huge assumption, so bear with me, but do you think Japan's agricultural history has had an impact on their response to using technology thanks to Coronavirus? My theory goes that farmers here have always lived in villages in Japan, whereas in NZ, the farmers live all spread apart from each other. So […]

This situation is a reminder that you don't need to follow what others are (or aren't) doing. I mentioned it in my rant yesterday, but Japan as a whole is a country of technophobes. There are of course exceptions to this, but in general, Japanese people aren't as computer-savvy as their technological advancements would have […]

And I for one think it’s a good thing. There’s always so much completely unnecessary paperwork that even I get flustered about whenever I have to fill out a form. They still use fax machines! Even curriculum vitae are mostly handwritten, I wish I was joking! And why? Because of conservatism. Because it’s the way […]

If you have enough stocked away and can survive the interim, maybe we don’t need all businesses to last through calamity, maybe it’s fine for these companies to fail. Of course it will be inconvenient, but inconvenience and the end of the world are two different things (which some people fail to realise). Recently someone […]

Mass consumption will always be a thing, but the categories of these things will get more and more niche as time goes on. It has to, it’s the only way they can survive with ever picky people. And that’s a good thing. It means we truly demand things that are valuable to us, and rather […]

I was doing a bit of video editing today. I posted a video to the Yamabushido YouTube the other day, but this time I’m making it for my own channel. I’ve never done this before, but it feels like when I learned how to make websites. After thinking about making videos for years now, for […]

I keep comparing this staying indoors to Yamabushi training. During training, we spend a lot of time indoors, mainly either sleeping or praying, although we do also spend extensive time outdoors. Anyway, besides that, there is one huge difference.