After 26 years in Japan, Angela is currently test driving the Scottish winter. Describing herself as a “people person,” she wrote weekly profiles and features for The Japan Times between 1987 and 2011. For writings since 3/11/2011, see www.embrace-transition.com/. Her first book, “Chasing Shooting Stars – A South American Paper Trail into the Past,” was published in paperback in January 2013.
For Angela Jeffs's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Reader M.T. has lived in Japan for over 20 years and his brother is planning a visit, with a twist: The brother, his wife and two children are hoping to travel around the country living out of their Volkswagen camper van. "My brother, who is ...
A.M. has a big problem. Having had a driver's license for over 30 years, he got busy and suddenly discovered that it had expired — more than a year ago! "When I went in to the driver's license office, I was told that I have ...
FF in Tokyo has a barking dog next door that just won't stop! "Our neighbors have a caged dog that lives outside. The barking continues for at least an hour, starting after 9 p.m. and often not stopping until well after midnight." This happens almost every ...
Baha'i outreach MN thanks us for writing about her community (Lifelines, Sept. 21). "Just in case Janice or other readers are interested, there is a small but active Baha'i community in the Kansai area. Janice can find out more by e-mailing marynoguchi@gaia.eonet.ne.jp or Brett Keeman, ...
Death row record ST is a member of Amnesty International. Now back in the U.K., she spent several years in Japan, and was horrified to read in a recent issue of Amnesty Magazine (issue 61, May/June 2010) that a Japanese man is believed to be ...
Reader KS is having a hard time and doesn't know where to turn. "I have been working for years but suddenly find myself unemployed, over 60 and unwell. I didn't know about the pension program so have not paid into it at all. What can ...
Detroit-born Bob White has been in love with golf since he picked up one of his father's clubs at the age of 8. There were no kids' size clubs in the late 1950s, he recalls. You just did the best you could with what ...
Judy Mintze, who contacted us in search of her long lost mother, is on cloud nine. "I'm so pleased to inform you that I was reunited with my mother for the first time in over 40 years in early April at the Medical Corp. Okeikai ...
Reader SB was working for Nova and his visa runs out next fall. "I would like to stay in Japan and have been teaching a number of private as well as company classes. However, I think it will be difficult to get any of these ...
Reader TS writes: "I return to the U.S. next week and I was supposed to receive my final pay check from a really bad ALT company . . . last week, but did not receive payment. I've called them but the secretaries say that ...
