Chiharu has returned to Tokyo after ten unforgettable days together, and Mitsuharu and I have shared our final dinner before our next adventures begin. Wahine ...
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Sailors have an old saying: "The two happiest days in a sailor's life are the day he buys a boat and the day he sells it." Having recently passed Wahine on ...
After a month away, I'm back in my tiny fishing village on Amami Oshima. Twenty-nine people. This has become my longevity laboratory and a base from which I ...
Every few weeks, I pass through Narita. Not just the airport. The town. It has become part of my rhythm. Leaving Tokyo, I slow down before returning to my ...
A famous Japanese proverb says: "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down." Yet after years of travelling through Japan's remote communities and ...
Why do some people remain healthy, active, and independent well into their eighties and nineties, while others experience years of decline? That question sent ...
Many people think ikigai means discovering a grand purpose.n reality, it is often much simpler. A reason to get up. A place to go. People who know your name. ...
Today I rode in a beautifully restored 1957 MGA with my friend Tony a classic enthusiast @fastbikejp It wasn't lost on me that the car was almost exactly my ...
More than a century ago, writer Lafcadio Hearn observed that Japan viewed life, family, and community differently from the modern West. Less linear. More ...
As I continue traveling through Japan’s longevity hotspots, I keep noticing recurring patterns. One of them is simple: Many of the people who age well tend ...
The goal is not to stay young. It is to remain engaged with life. Curious. Connected. Active. Participating in the world around you. A small Field Note from ...
Back in my remote island village in Japan. The more time I spend traveling through Japan’s longevity hotspots, the more I notice the same patterns repeating ...
For years, Japan has fascinated the world with its long-lived population. But what if part of that story was never just diet, exercise, or healthcare? What if ...
Two women shaped how I think about aging. Both lived to 92. One was my mother in Canada. The other, my neighbor in Japan. One experienced years of ...
After nearly two years researching and writing Longevity and the Art of Community: Lessons from Japan, I thought I’d be ready to let it go. But this book isn’t ...
Last day in Tokyo. I was invited to an event on Aging in Japan. Tonight, I head back to the island… back to the boat. To prepare for something special. In a ...
Walking around a Japanese castle during cherry blossom season. Moats were designed to protect—keeping outsiders out, and insiders in. Years ago, a mentor ...
It`s Cherry blossom season in Japan. Each spring, people gather under the sakura with friends, family, and colleagues—celebrating their beauty while knowing it ...
I traveled to Kyotango in Kyoto Prefecture — a community with three times Japan’s national average of centenarians — to meet the people behind the statistics. ...
On my third research journey up the length of Japan, I’ve returned to Matsue Castle in Shimane Prefecture — the region that’s ranked number one in Japan for ...
SLOW LIVING LIFESTYLE | In today's vlog, we share with you a little bit about our story with essentialism as we live an intentional life on a sailboat. We ...
Learning to be more purposeful, more mindful and seeing the beauty in just being. Song Credit: 06:03 Sunset Lover- Night Trouble (slowed down) 01:41 James ...
On a cloudy day, we drove to Swansea to dive, climb and explore some new places and amongst all of that, i pulled up a chair, turned the camera on and started ...
After brief stop in St. Martin we get back to our route. Hurricane season starts soon and we need to be out and still so much to see and do. So we do - we sail ...