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WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 28, 2002
Waiting for the ultimate exchange gift
Perhaps the first disappointment most kids experience while growing up is discovering the truth regarding Santa Claus. For me, it was the same.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 14, 2002
Ducky tale of a high-flying family
To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The very rich are different from you and me."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 30, 2002
Japanese made funny by 'gaijin' gaffes
Some people collect rocks. Others stamps. Still others beer cans.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 16, 2002
A whole lot of shaking going on in my mind
Earthquakes are not laughable affairs. The breadth of the destruction and depth of the human tragedy demand only a solemn response.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 13, 2002
School festivals of fun in the name of sport
Autumn in Japan means much more than cooler temperatures and colorful leaves. It means . . . sports!
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 1, 2002
How can we be No. 3?
In a revelation no less stunning than if Mount Everest was suddenly surpassed as the world's tallest mountain or the Nile outstretched as the world's longest river, a July news report announced that Tokyo is no longer the world's most expensive city.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 18, 2002
What a pair they are
If you are a viewer of Japanese television, you have no doubt seen a pair of celebrities known as the Kano sisters. Single-handedly -- or perhaps double-handedly is more appropriate -- these two have lent new meaning to the term "boob tube."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 4, 2002
The world according to a certified oddball
Once you finally know them, most people are . . . nice. A rosy sentiment paraphrased from Atticus Finch in the fiction classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." Words I now twist to match my own barbed view of life in Japan.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 21, 2002
Things you can't tell just by looking at her
I have a friend who is a man of only one conviction.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 7, 2002
Are you calling me a diphthong?
I have a friend who became an English teacher mainly because of his fondness for phonetics.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 23, 2002
Chew-well cuisine is the stuff of saucy dreams
Let's call him "Taro."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 9, 2002
The walls that connect us
"Good fences make good neighbors." Which means -- if we extrapolate this bit of Robert Frost wisdom a little further -- Japan should have some of the best neighbors in the world.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 26, 2002
Waxing monstrously about the first Japanese I ever got to know
The first Japanese I fell in love with was a little taller than my wife.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 12, 2002
Chewing the cud with cheap shots at soccer
Here's a confession for you -- a self-insight I discovered just the other night:
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 21, 2002
Reality bytes across the Digital Divide
The latest fad in worldwide rifts is not East/West, North/South, Rich/Poor -- nor even Love Britney/Hate Britney. Rather it is the "Digital Divide" -- the gap between those who are prepared to live in our brave new world of information technology and those who are not.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 7, 2002
Behold that golden glow
It's almost here . . . my favorite week.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 24, 2002
Some gaijin pitfalls into which few have not plunged
I heard once that art is 2 percent creativity and the rest "derivativity."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 10, 2002
Hey, thank you for the delicious feast, baby
"If I should meet thee, After long years, How should I greet thee?"
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 24, 2002
Going places depends on where you're from
Two thirtyish Japanese junior execs both applied for an opening at "Worldbeater Tech," a subsidiary of an offshoot of a spinoff of a fat-cat blue-chip company.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 10, 2002
Beans of wisdom from a hospital waiting room
The week before Christmas 1989, I sat in an outpatient ward in Kumamoto University Hospital waiting for the doctor to take a look at a head cold that threatened to ruin my holidays.
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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