The Tokyo Traveler

Sadaharu Oh is a baseball legend in Japan, he signed with the Yomiuri Giants in 1959 and played for 22 seasons, slugging 868 home runs (Barry Bonds has 762), winning 14 league pennants and 11 Japan Series. In 1962 he was the Central league home run leader, a title that he held for 13 straight seasons, and he won the batting triple crown twice for leading the league in batting average, runs batted in and home runs.
He retired after the 1980 season and became a coach and then the manager of the Yomiuri Giants. In 1988 he ended …read more

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I recently had the privilege and pleasure of interviewing Matthew Firestone, a freelance travel writer who is one of the authors of The Lonely Planet Guide to Japan and the writer of Big in Japan for Gadling. Over the past three years he has also written or contributed to the Lonely Planet Guides to Egypt, Panama, Southern Africa, Costa Rica and many others. We met for lunch at a traditional Japanese Soba restaurant in the ultra modern Shin-Marunouchi Building located near historic Tokyo Station. The setting of our lunch is symbolic of Matthews’ thoughts on the duality …read more

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