INTOUCH Magazine

Doing Their Best 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.

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Talking with Ghosts 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.

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Cultivating Art 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.

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Brotherly Grit 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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Powder to the People! ADVERTORIAL

Powder to the People!

Ski season date set as hotels offer deep discounts in Appi Kogen.

Situated at the same latitude as renowned ski resorts such as Austria’s Arlberg and Aspen in the United States, Appi Kogen Ski Resort is blessed with high-quality powder snow.

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Rare Delight ADVERTORIAL

Rare Delight

Yakiniku Tamakiya serves some of the country’s finest beef.

Known for its rich marbling and unmatched flavor, wagyu, or Japanese beef, is prized not only in its home country but around the world.

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