Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 11/08/2026Typhoon Chan-hom overhead this morning, and also this egret (shirasagi, 白鷺) 0297
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 01/08/2026Taking a break from Japan in Muskoka and Niagara 1251
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 20/07/2026Cycled by today’s fire at the army base, JGSDF Camp Asaka (陸上自衛隊 朝霞駐屯地) 1121
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 19/07/2026Tanuki is back! Maybe too hot to sleep all day 🐾 His fur is coming back too after a bout of mange in May 🦝 1280
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 19/07/2026Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tubists at the 20th Yosakoi Festival in Hikarigaoka Park, Tokyo (July 18–20, 9 am–9 pm daily) At: 35°45'52.1"N 139°37'49.1"E 1130
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 30/05/2026Smaller, watered-down 1990s Ikebukuro vibe. Lots of Okinawan steelworkers (and restaurants) for some reason, plus pachinko and skewered chicken joints 050
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 30/05/2026Cheap apartments, but gentrifying every month with new condos. 140
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 25/05/2026“Shinjuku Niagara Falls” in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Central Park My hometown is the 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 Niagara Falls (the Canadian side), but in the 1990s I lived near this park, in Honmachi, Shibuya 1211
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 21/05/2026Good article by Sean Williams in The Guardian ‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...theguardian.com‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuzaThe long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her 083
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 12/05/2026My favourite too. I saw at least three yesterday. One was tearing sticks off a tree for its nest. Bird population in Shakujii Park is definitely up this year 𓅥 𓅮 𓅻 170
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 12/05/2026Saw three types of heron this morning, and cormorants Sanpoji Pond, Tokyo At: 35°44'18.1"N 139°35'43.9"E 1432
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 09/05/2026Walked past this and Hayao Miyazaki sprang to mind, not sure why exactly 1271