Parents of unmarried offspring drive surge in matchmaking parties
More and more Japanese parents are attending matchmaking parties in an effort to marry off their children, worried that they will be part of the growing segment of the population that never ties the knot. Although matchmaking for political or financial reasons was common in ...
The delicate Japanese art of rom-com title translation
With so much at stake, it's no wonder distribution companies pour so much thought into coming up with workable, attractive Japanese titles for their films.
For long-distance lovers, apps that make the heart grow fonder
Thanks to technology, your loved one can always be with you, in your pocket — or under your thumb.
'The Sound of Waves' stands alone in the sea of Yukio Mishima's works
"The Sound of Waves" is a typical boy-meets-girl story. Shinji is a poor fisherman on Uta-jima, a small island in Ise Bay. Hatsue left the island as a young girl to train to be a pearl diver. When she returns, now a young woman, ...
A Long Island couple married for 70 years has died just hours apart at their assisted living residence. The children of Ruth and William Bauer told the newspaper Newsday that their 92-year-old mother died around 7 a.m. Monday in Glen Cove. The family says 97-year-old ...
The subject was pickup lines, and Germany's "Mr. Flirt" offered a few examples to his class of Syrian and Iraqi refugees. "I really love the scent of your perfume," he suggested. "You have a beautiful voice." He invited his students to take a stab. Essam ...
Beyond silence: lessons learned from a Japanese spouse
You see it often in Tokyo: the attentive Japanese woman and the Western man filling silence. In fact, a lot of them end up married, sharing a house and 1,000 meals, albeit hardly a life of the mind.
China's biggest dating show helping lonely hearts in Japan
Chen Ling, Chinese owner of a start-up business in Japan, never imagined that she would appear on her home country's most popular dating show. But Chen, 27, was selected as the first Chinese contestant living in Japan to appear on the Chinese cultural phenomenon "If ...
To furu or furareru: In Japanese or any language, breaking up is hard to do
The girl who dumped me wasn't Japanese, so I was surprised to get a Japanese language lesson out of the ordeal.
Don't miss an opportunity when kikkake comes knocking
Introducing きっかけ, which identifies a clue, trigger, motivation or cause to start something.
It's the season of love: Won't someone please grab hold of my chin?
In Japan these days, it can seem as if love itself is on the decline — and that no one really cares.
U.S. WWII veteran reunites with wartime girlfriend in Australia
A 93-year-old World War II veteran from the United States embraced his wartime girlfriend in Australia in their reunion Wednesday after more than 70 years apart. Norwood Thomas and 88-year-old Joyce Morris laughed as they wrapped their arms around each other after Thomas flew from ...
