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WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 6, 2013
Feasting at the Hooters 'breastaurant': Wise old owls ought to know better
How should I play my first visit to Hooters, the land of hamburgers and hot pants? Should I go highbrow? Or low? I turn to my guide for, uh, guidance. 'Well, their motto is 'Delightfully tacky.' What do you think?'
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 22, 2013
¥500: the most expensive coin in the world, kinda
I am fond of that big coin, for a bevy or reasons. It's a relationship I dub 'The king and I.'
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 8, 2013
Escaping blame for an 'anus crime' by the seat of my pants
So there my wife sits before the tube — almost every night — with her electronic dictionary on and the Japanese subtitles off, soaking in the colorful language of law and lawbreaking.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 25, 2013
Nothing shouts 'Japan!' like a housewife, her Pomeranian and a fish
Halloween is almost here,' he tells me — 'he' being a friend with a passion for holidays — 'and I need a costume! Something that shouts 'Japan!' Any ideas
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 11, 2013
Cryptomeria in thrilling 3D
"Here," he says and plops down a manuscript. He has eyes so earnest they gleam like headlights on bright.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 27, 2013
When worlds collide
My Japanese language skills mostly stink. And always have.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 13, 2013
My day at the races
The surface of the coffee in my Starbucks cup begins its gentle dance, the signal to lift my head.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 30, 2013
How the West was lost — almost
"How was your trip to Las Vegas?" grins this friend who knows I never gamble. "Did you win a million bucks?"
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 16, 2013
Some words of self-introduction
Ask what's good about life in Japan and answers always vary.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 2, 2013
Guts, glory and shaved ice: Koshien baseball
Summer is not summer in Japan without two things: 1. Heat (OK, so maybe it's not the heat, it's the humidity); and 2 . . .
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 19, 2013
Knocking on knickknacks
My grandma used to be the easiest of all my relatives to buy souvenirs for.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 5, 2013
Stressing on stress
The Internet is ablaze with lists suggesting ways to fight back against the deadliest foe of modern man — stress.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 22, 2013
The death of civilization
I once had this Japanese student who told me he could tell a book's publisher from the smell.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 8, 2013
A great big one up on the roof
A Japanese colleague trying to improve her English via episodes of the TV sitcom "Friends" once asked me this . . .
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 25, 2013
The junkie and his fix
"Weird," he says. "Give me something weird."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 11, 2013
What my dentist wants to know
"Ever thought to change your nationality?"
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 27, 2013
Carping on carp
Whenever you find someone tossing bits of bread into a pond, you have to assume this:
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 13, 2013
Golf and Japanese mania for order and rules
If you haven't noticed, the most popular sports in sports-zany Japan are imports. Homegrown offerings — sumo, judo, karate and so on — rank more like your mom's oatmeal cookies.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 30, 2013
Awakening the echoes — loud ones
I sit at a table, drinking with an old friend with whom I share a lot, and not just bar tabs. We have both gulped away most of our adult lives in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 16, 2013
Cheering for cherries
If the Grinch — that well-known wet blanket of holiday mirth — were both a betting man and Japanese, it wouldn't be Christmas he was after. Nor New Year's, nor the Emperor's birthday, nor Golden Week, nor National Toilet Day (Nov. 10. Mark it down).
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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