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WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 28, 2006
Once upon a crow hunt weary
This story is true. Most of it.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 14, 2006
Exorcising the untrained brain
Once at a Japanese hospital -- after first camping in the outer waiting room for an eternity and then sitting in the inner waiting room for half an eternity more -- I heard the nurse hold the following conversation with the doctor, whose desk was parked around the corner, just beyond my sight.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 30, 2006
Look what they've done to my food, Ma
It is a marriage made in hell's kitchen.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 16, 2006
A train chock full o' nuts
They're not my family, they're not my friends. They're . . . my "famuters" -- those familiar commuters who ride the train with me each and every day.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 2, 2006
Quiet on the set. Ready . . . Action!
"All I need is the backing," says the man. "Then I've got a surefire hit."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 26, 2006
In the heat of the city
My son calls it "air you can wear."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 12, 2006
The ghost of a summer past
A catch of breath, a creak of wood and a shadow going thump in the night. . . . Fascination for the spooky and inexplicable perhaps bubbles more intensely in Japan than anywhere else, even in Amityville -- especially during Japanese ghost season, the hot month of August. Is what follows a "Flactured Fairy Tale"? Or just a Kanto urban legend, thinly disguised? Or is it some other fright, nestled deep within the bosoms of frail and distrustful relationships?
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 29, 2006
When Crete meets NEET
An unholy union with an unholy result -- a monster!
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 15, 2006
Me and me: those extraordinary twins
On his deathbed in 1910, Mark Twain supposedly mumbled about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 1, 2006
A mite louder than mice: city gaijin vs. country gaijin
OK, so it's not the greatest conflict of all time. It's not Pepsi vs. Coke, Tom vs. Jerry or even Freddy vs. Jason. Plus it's not Japan-specific. The following swords of debate can be crossed in any nation at any time by anyone.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 17, 2006
Those were the good old days
The other day I spied a foreign couple across the room in a Japanese restaurant. They were so new to Japan they bore an aura of green. Bright green. So bright, I had to squint.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 3, 2006
Just say it ain't so, Joe
At times in my life I have been vain enough to imagine my name up in lights, embossed upon a novel or even typed beneath the head of a newspaper column. A good one, I mean.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 20, 2006
How sweet it is -- or isn't
My wife bakes in flurries and when the storm hits hardest, our kitchen becomes a virtual hurricane of flour and dough, not to mention Category 5 aromas.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 29, 2006
A boom time for Japanese electronics
Recently the day that my wife had long been predicting finally arrived -- sort of.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 15, 2006
When rankings go rank
One symptom of a society addicted to quick information is the popularity of lists.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 1, 2006
A few gestures of renown -- really
A non-Japanese-speaking friend of mine was telling me a story of how he once tried to talk his way onto a dinner cruise, even though he knew all the seats were booked. Persistence, he figured, plus his clumsiness with the language would work its "gaijin" spell on the English-burdened clerk, who he just knew would eventually relent and find one more place setting.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 18, 2006
Confessions of a priest . . . sort of
Meet "Father Smith" -- silver hair, gentle smile and a voice so mellow that it flows with a grace from beyond. Maybe there is a God and maybe there isn't, but when you're with Father Smith, you tend to believe that maybe there is.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 4, 2006
What would the village hugger do?
Eons ago in an America light-years away, my wife and I stopped at the only eatery available in a town that hit the bull's-eye in the middle of nowhere. As we ordered coffee and toast, an old man shuffling past suddenly stopped and spoke to my wife. She may have been the first Oriental he had ever seen.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 18, 2006
Winesburg, Japan, and the will of God
Sherwood Anderson once charmed America with a collection of short stories focused on the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio. The stories portrayed normal people in the normal agony of their normal lives, tales that made Winesburg a hometown for everyone. One story in particular told of a modest clergyman and the eye-opening sight he spied in the bedroom of the house next door, presented now as a "Flactured Fairy Tale," not from Ohio, but from that other Winesburg, located right here in Japan.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 4, 2006
Another strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I have within me, I confess, a split personality -- like sheared halves of a single beating heart.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
Japan’s carmakers look to China tech to claw back market share
Toyota CEO Koji Sato says the company plans to expand AI-related investments, and this year will focus on building a strong foundation for software-defined vehicles.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
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New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
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The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
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