It must have been in 2007 or 2008, during my graduate studies at a business school in Helsinki, Finland. I was sitting in a classroom with 30 fellow students when one of them asked us to raise our hands if we were considering a career as an entrepreneur after graduation. ...
"Mom, this flower doesn't smell."
A chance rediscovery leads an author to reflect on the lessons to be learned from the devastation of two continents.
"I want to do whatever I want until I get sick and you have to look after me."
"Hurry up and pack your bag. We've got to get back to Tokyo. You've got school tomorrow."
Japanese society and culture seem intrinsically suited to bicycles, which require a degree of safety of environment and intimacy that are alien to many thunderously car-based, brash and crime-ridden Western societies.
People in Kansai's commercial capital were asked if they feel concerned about the prospect of missile attacks by North Korea on Japan — and whether there are more important worries in their lives right now.
Foreign nationals in Shibuya give their general thoughts on terrorism, whether conspiracy legislation is necessary to fight it, and how safe they feel in their home and host countries.
Jean Pearce, who for decades helped Japan's foreign community feel more at home in their adopted country through her columns in The Japan Times, passed away peacefully on June 14 at the age of 96 in Washington, D.C.
"Sometimes I feel as if I'm in a jousting tournament in Japan."
After flirtations with city and country, a roaming suburban boy finds that true bliss lies somewhere in between.
People in the greater Nagoya area recount things they wish they hadn't — or had — done.
