On the relationship of foreigners and the Japanese, the “gaijin samurai” and an unexpected crime wave in Japan
All countries have foreigners living in their midst, whether its a Swedish college student working for a season at a ...
All countries have foreigners living in their midst, whether its a Swedish college student working for a season at a ...
Japan is nothing if not the land of contradictions. On the one hand, society has been organized in a vertical ...
There's a minor hullabaloo going on between Japan and Australia right now after the publication of a controversial book on ...
I was making up some Japanese business cards for one of my employees yesterday, trying different layouts and fonts to ...
I've written before about how Japan is a very safe place -- so safe it might just kill you with ...
It was Thomas Paine -- a possible ancestor of mine, although I somehow doubt it -- who uttered the words, ...
You probably know that they do Valentine's Day a little differently in Japan than in the West. Here, Feb. 14th ...
We've been watching the extra-cold winter dumping lots of snow on the U.S. this year and feeling more than a ...
Japan has a reputation for being a peaceful place with very little in the way of violence, giant monsters emerging ...
One thing I've heard from foreigners who have recently come to Japan -- and which I've probably uttered myself a ...
That old planet Earth, she just keeps on getting smaller and smaller, and it's a lot of fun to sit ...
It's funny how culture criss-crosses the globe, never stopping at such laughable things as national borders as it flows to ...