Recipe found for cross-cultural love
Cristiano Pozzi, 37, born and raised in the Lake Como area in northern Italy, and Akiko Kobayashi, 36, from Tokyo, first met in 2003. Cristiano, a chef at an Italian restaurant, and Akiko, owner of a nail salon in Akasaka, were introduced to each ...
Long-distance relationship comes all the way to Tokyo
Natsuko Shibata, a Tokyo native, and Piyasena Perera, a Sri Lankan-American born in Los Angeles, met two decades ago in New York when they were both studying at Columbia University. Natsuko was studying for a master's degree in Japanese-language pedagogy, while Piya (short for Piyasena) ...
Himalayan love story peaks in Chiba
"People say it's like a love story in a Bollywood movie," says Paul Rajesh, 34, who was born in Manali, a town in northern India's Himachal Pradesh state. After his family resided in different parts of India, Paul returned to Manali to work at a ...
Pair get more than fluency from language swap lessons
Guillermo Larese roia, 42, from Argentina, and Keiko Iwasaki, 31, met a decade ago in Japan after one of them put a message about swapping Japanese and Spanish lessons in a free publication. Their teacher-student relationship soon turned to one of friendship and, in the ...
Language no problem for gallery pair
Hitoshi Ohashi, 48, and Robert Tobin, 63, have been in a relationship for 20 years. When they first met at a bar in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo, Ohashi, a makeup artist, barely spoke English, and Tobin, an American professor in the business department ...
For academic pair, viva art, history
Junko Kume and Isaac Ait Moreno moved to Tokyo last September for work, but they say it does not matter where they live as long as they can be together. The 34-year-old Japanese senior assistant professor and her 32-year-old husband from Spain, who married in ...
From two worlds apart they found one
American Leza Lowitz was ready to leave Japan when she met her future husband, Shogo Oketani, at a Yokohama jazz club. She stayed and they dated for a year, but still she felt a nagging desire to go home. So when she told him of ...
Proposal followed fight over feline
. I had been involved in triathlon for two or three years. Kentaro: It was my first or second time to join the triathlon training group when we met. She and I both lived in Oizumi Gakuen (in Nerima Ward, Tokyo). She taught me ...
Couple's love story started in Africa
good faith. What language do you use to communicate with each other and your children? Emmanuel: We usually speak French with each other. Eriko: Our children speak to their father in French and to their mother in Japanese. Emmanuel: When they speak to their relatives, ...
Frenchman finds ideal in temple's 'better half'
Anthony Deville always dreamed of marrying an Asian woman. Fascinated by Japanese arts and culture, the 39-year-old Frenchman found his "better half" in Japan, Mayura, 35. Mayura may be as exotic a woman as a Frenchman managing an Italian restaurant could hope to find. As the ...
Couple settled down after roller coaster ride
For Susan Tanaka, her story with her husband is like a roller coaster, as the two spent eight years dating and breaking up. The 49-year-old Filipino on several occasions almost gave up any hope of marrying him. Had Makoto, 48, a company executive, not decided to ...
Ain't no mountain in the Andes high enough
Hirohito Ota, 39, a freelance writer, is an adventurer by nature. He had been writing for magazines and other media in Japan, but he cut all his work connections with his home country and flew to Peru to live in the mountains because he was ...
