Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day, a celebration of all things Irish in the U.S. and, presumeably, Ireland. As you might ...
The other day I went to my son's school to watch the various end-of-year performances the students had prepared for ...
One thing I like about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and ...
I was making up some Japanese business cards for one of my employees yesterday, trying different layouts and fonts to ...
We've been watching the extra-cold winter dumping lots of snow on the U.S. this year and feeling more than a ...
One thing I've heard from foreigners who have recently come to Japan -- and which I've probably uttered myself a ...
It's funny how culture criss-crosses the globe, never stopping at such laughable things as national borders as it flows to ...
I sometimes find myself thinking back to my college days when I first started learning Japanese, and it never fails ...
When a foreigner comes to live in Japan, he or she is in for some changes. I remember my first ...
People talk about convergence all the time, of things coming together in a more convenient form. Living in Japan, one ...
We have a rule at our house: in order to help our kids become bilingual, we only watch DVDs from ...
One of the cool things about teaching ESL in Japan was learning my own language and its grammar. Language is ...
It's hard raising bilingual children in a country where English isn't used on a daily basis, except on signs that ...
I recently talked about how many Japanese professionals from businessmen to musicians to athletes seem to consider succeeding in the ...
Kanji (KAHN-gee), the Chinese characters that the Japanese use to express most words in writing, is fascinating to Westerners because ...
You know you've been in Japan too long when your mother sends you a bottle of nutmeg spice for Christmas, ...
Pets are a part of our household in Japan, and currently we've got a dog (faithful old Sakura) and two ...
I'm often asked what the Japanese think of foreigners who go out of their way to learn the language. I ...
Imagine if a food you ate every day were suddenly unavailable, say, hamburgers, just to pick an example. With no ...
Hello again from Japan, where it's believed that only good things happen on Friday the 13th. There was a lot ...
Japan is buzzing about North Korea's reported underground nuclear test, which took place a few hours ago. The news comes ...
It's always interesting to observe the large and small differences between schools here and back in the States. Both my ...
Although Japan is a lot smaller than the U.S. -- it's about the same land area as Nebraska, but spread ...
It's a boy! All Japan is currently cheering the news that Princess Kiko has given birth to a boy. The ...
