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Thomas Dillon
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 15, 1999
Obtrusive nails, squeaky wheels
Not so very often I recall the following words of advice from my dear old mother, a tiding of the heart delivered straight from parent to child.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 1, 1999
The 'S' word makes a happy marriage
The time has come in this column to finally discuss that passionate act that lies at the core of many an international romance. Yes, it's time for the "S" word.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 18, 1999
You're only as old as you tell
Here is a scenario that happens in the first hour of every single new English conversation class in Japan _ a sort of annual rite of spring.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 4, 1999
How to keep the main clause interesting
Many years ago when she was studying for the TOEFL exam, my wife asked me to explain the difference between a main clause and a subordinate one. She somehow had it in her head that as a native speaker I would instinctively know what those words meant.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 2, 1999
Wham bam, no thanks ma'am
Now it can be told. When I first came to Japan, I didn't believe in yakuza .
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 17, 1999
When international relations get all steamed up
When asked what part of Japan they would most like to take back home, many foreigners respond by saying, "a Japanese bathtub."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 3, 1999
Toilet humor is only natural, no instructions necessary
Come on. Admit it. Toilets are funny.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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