INTOUCH Magazine
indepth | scouting
Doing Their Best
More than a century after Robert Baden-Powell established Scouting, the movement continues to shape young lives, including at the Club.
It might be fiercely hot and humid, but the members of Cub Scout Pack 51 are all smiles.
INDEPTH | LITERATURE
Talking with Ghosts
Ahead of Halloween celebrations across the world, Lafcadio Hearn’s great-grandson discusses the enduring popularity of the writer’s supernatural tales.
Crime reporter. Travel writer. Cultural anthropologist. Art critic. Aesthete. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn wore many hats during his literary career, but it was a fascination with Japanese ghost stories for which he is most remembered.
INDEPTH | CULTURE
Cultivating Art
How does an English teacher in Japan become a bonsai master? American Adam Jones reveals all.
Nestled on three acres of picturesque cedar and bamboo woodlands in Ibaraki Prefecture is a garden of tiny trees.
COMMUNITY | WELLNESS
Brotherly Grit
After Member Bryan Kipping’s father passed away, he decided to honor his memory with a grueling Ironman race.
My father was a competitive amateur cyclist. He rode for Great Britain in top amateur events during the 1960s, including the Milk Race, where cyclists from around the world would traverse the UK.
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Rare Delight
Yakiniku Tamakiya serves some of the country’s finest beef.
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