I am a 26-year-old woman. I live in Japan and speak Japanese more or less fluently. I will soon be working in IT without an IT-related degree. I like to writ...
A picture I took at the Abashiri Prison museum in Hokkaido in January of 2026. This is a life-sized display model of one of the monks who would come and give sermons to the prisoners. What would you do if you were given an entire month with no obligations, and you knew you'd never get time like that again? My singular dream in life has been "Japan," as one word. If I have a "thing" in life, this…
A picture I took on December 25th, 2025 of a christmas cake. My friend E likes to wave his hands in front of whatever I'm taking a picture of, as though he shouldn't theoretically owe me ￥50~100 per film shot he "contributes" to in this way. Imagine it's my birthday cake, please. I turned twenty-six yesterday. (In my home country, I technically turn twenty-six today .) I have been sick with a…
This is my first post on Bear. Hello! I have had a hankering to write publicly for some time now. I have had a habit of writing at least 500 hand-scrawled words in a journal daily for many years now, but the practice is too insular to fully satisfy my writing interests. I think being forced to consider the perspective of another human, or maybe two or three or more other humans, would do something…