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I attended class every Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for a full year.The classroom was like a tiny United Nations of […]

From day one, every technique was broken down into reason and method. How to hold the knife. Where to place your thumb. […]

Before I enrolled, I believed—like almost all of Japanese —that becoming a sushi chef required endless, almost mysteriou […]

Around that time, I heard a successful entrepreneur say:“If you want to learn sushi, go to a school. One year—and you’ll […]

Shooting food wasn’t just about the perfect angle anymore. The more I photographed, the more I realized:
If I truly want […]

And as I continued guiding travelers from around the world,I learned something that no textbook or camera manual could t […]

If there’s one belief that has shaped my life more than any other,it’s this: Learning can change everything. Not just im […]

Not every client was welcoming.One owner screamed at me the moment I arrived—furious that I started setting up during lu […]

When the world shut down in 2020, I lost everything I had just begun to build. Tourism vanished overnight. All my bookin […]

In December 2019, I was guiding a group of college students from New York through Tokyo. As we strolled near the Imperia […]