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Active Life educates through language, sports, art and cultural exchange. Join our projects and interact with the international community!
Active Life educates through language, sports, art and cultural exchange. Join our projects and interact with the international community!
Summer in Japan is famously hot and humid. Everywhere you go, you'll find kakigori shops (shaved ice) offering sweet relief, people gracefully fanning themselves, and many wearing colorful yukata, the light cotton kimonos perfect for summer festivals. Du ...
If you’re learning Japanese, you’ve probably come across the word gohan (ごはん). It’s one of the first words taught in any beginner class, usually translated as “rice” or “meal.” But did you know that gohan represents much more than just food? ...
About Karo Neighborhood, in Tottori, Japan I have always lived between two worlds: the coast and the mountains of Ecuador, with their eternal rivalry. That's why, when I first visited Tottori City—in 2004—I was struck by the harmony in which the sea a ...
It all started when Mina Nishimura—my Japanese host parents' niece—told me she was going on an exchange program to Australia. I had shared some meals with her when she came to visit her uncle's house in Hirakata, the city where I lived and studied. Mean ...
Chronicle of an ascent to 3776 meters above sea level It was my third visit to Japan. I would spend all my savings on this trip, so I had to make the most of it. I asked for three weeks of vacation, which I consider the minimum time to enjoy Japan. ...
By Mady García Whether you like it or not, the soccer World Cup is a huge event that brings people together, it is like a big party. One of the moments in which Ecuador and Japan were closer than ever was, precisely, during the 2002 Japan-South Korea ...
Gaimen Kirikae - 外免切替 If you have a currently available driver’s license issued in your home country, you can exchange it for a Japanese one. In this article, we will give you advice to go smoothly through that process. First, you should know t ...
Discover how the end of the year’s season is celebrated in Japan. The year 2023 has come to an end, and we want to review the most common traditions that currently take part in Japan. The Japanese Christmas season is similar to Christmas in other p ...
By Karen Pullupaxi I graduated in architecture from San Francisco University in Quito at the end of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic. Originally, my plan considered traveling to Japan in September 2021, but due to the restrictions and airport closu ...
Since 1966, every second Monday of October Japan celebrates Sports Day (スポツーの日) in conmemoration of the 1964 Summer Olimpics held in October that year in Tokyo. Many schools have sports festivals with many fun activities, and other public events ar ...