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WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 23, 2005
Rocket Johnny: to infinity and beyond!
In the heart of downtown Shinjuku there's a land -- far over the rainbow -- where dreams really do come true. That is, if your dream involves a bowel movement.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 9, 2005
2005: A sneeze odyssey
As she springs toward her second half-century of life, my always-young wife is afraid of but one thing.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 26, 2005
On catching your spouse's culture
There's this lady I know who has one major gripe about life in Japan.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 12, 2005
Oh give me a home where the roaches won't roam
For years I took my dog on walks into Saitama Prefecture so she could go pee, among other things. Now I have found similar use for Saitama myself.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 26, 2005
Srcwenig anorud wtih the ruels
"I hvae jsut had a rvelaiton," I tlel my wfie, tihs tmie not in our Tkoyo hmoe, but in "Colmun Lnad," wehre the cnovnetinos of dilaog can be bnet at wlil.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 12, 2005
As cute as cute can be
A friend who visited these fair islands for the first time last fall had this to say of his weekend-to-weekend impressions of Japan.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 29, 2005
Take this job and love it
Maybe it was Benjamin Disraeli or maybe it was Mark Twain or maybe it was me who said, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics . . . followed by Japanese financial data."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 15, 2005
Freezin' in a winter wonderland
Winter lies heavy on Japan. In this country, that means ski slopes, hot sake, common-pot stews, frosty smiles, rosy cheeks and -- at least for those in the highlands or up north -- buckets of snow. It's but one cozy chapter of the chipper romance that all Japanese feel for the four seasons.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 1, 2005
These are a few of my favorite things
One duty of all foreign residents of Japan is to pick up a bunch of Japanese "things." You know, the knickknack, bric-a-brac, give-the-junk-a-home type of stuff that is probably cluttering up your dwelling even now.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 18, 2004
Talking (and talking) about talking
"Did I ever tell you about the time I was kidnapped by Gypsies?"
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 4, 2004
A little knowledge can be a silly thing
One hitch about living long years in Japan is that sooner or later people expect you to know something about it. Not folks from home, mind you, for they mostly practice that ignorance is bliss. A la:
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 20, 2004
Why Johnny can't read 'kanji'
Here's a quick communication survey of your typical long-term foreign resident of Japan, particularly one from the West.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 6, 2004
A journey on the road more traveled
Here's a little-known Zen puzzle for numskulls:
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 23, 2004
Winning and losing the compliment game
My, I'm impressed with the way you read. Your eyes just sail across the text like a clipper ship backed by fair winds and bound for a friendly port. Even when you blink, you don't slow down. Even when I type challenging words like "panegyric" or "ibetyourbreathcouldkillahorse," you barely pause on the page. What talent. What skill. How mighty you are.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 9, 2004
When stumped, real English teachers 'goflibberate'
The other day I had coffee with a foreign friend who bore the fizzled hair and drooping face of long years of English teaching in Japan. It looked like the blood had been sucked from his skin and bicycle-pumped into his eyeballs.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 11, 2004
Rewriting the record books, one roach at a time
Once again, the season scrambles into its final weeks and with each passing day the tension builds.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 28, 2004
Words to live by . . . like it or not
Searching for that perfect word to express your truest, dearest, innermost special feelings? Well . . .
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 14, 2004
Just a lighter shade of bland
Hello. My name is Tom Dillon and I'm a tofu-holic.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 31, 2004
Some don't like it hot
My idea of hell is to be trapped for eternity in a tiny room with two women with one-track minds. All they want to do is talk, and their sole topic is this:
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 17, 2004
As good -- and as bad -- as it gets
For foreign residents, life in Japan can be a roller coaster of ups and downs -- quite often at the exact same time.
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.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Political party Tsubasa no To investigated over election obstruction
Officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police raid the Tsubasa no To office in Tokyo on Monday.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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