I’m both Japanese and American, shaped by both and fully not home in neither.
After years moving between Japan and the U.S., I’m now based in Japan, working a regular nine-to-five and slowly building a life here again.
Miles from Home began as a way of making sense of movement — between countries, languages, and versions of myself. Over time, it has become a personal archive of everyday life: small trips, familiar neighborhoods, corporate routines, and the quiet moments that feel too easy to lose if they aren’t written down.
I write about life in Japan from a prospective that isn’t quite forensic and not entirely local either. This is a space for documenting what it feels like to live between cultures, to return and readjust, and to find meaning in ordinary days.
If you’ve ever felt caught between where you are and where you came from, you may find something familiar here.
Say a while.
Written from Kobe, Japan.
Miles from Home 