Golden Week, and thoughts on Japan being a “vertical” society
It's time once again for Golden Week, a series of Japanese holidays that happens to fall more or less within ...
It's time once again for Golden Week, a series of Japanese holidays that happens to fall more or less within ...
You've been in Japan too long when you pay over $70 for a Captain Santa T-shirt and realize a few ...
My Japanese mother-in-law remarked the other day that, "You don't see women with big stomachs very often these days." At ...
Japanese students study a total of six years of English, even more if they go on to college, and even ...
Japan can really be a place of contrasting images. On the one hand, it's a modern, technologically advanced country that ...
There are big problems in China as demonstrators in several cities engage in protests against Japan, calling for boycotts of ...
Last week a woman looked out her window and saw smoke rising in some nearby mountains. She promptly called the ...
Japanese food is famous for containing things not usually eaten by Westerners, something which I was reminded of when my ...
It's sakura time in Japan right now, as cherry blossoms around the country explode in beautiful fireworks of pink. This ...
My mother and nephew have gone back to San Diego after a nice visit. It was fun having them here, ...
It's good to be back home! We were only gone four nights, but traveling around Japan with your 65-year-old mother ...
Hello from beautiful Kyoto! I took a couple of days off work to take my mother, who is visiting from ...