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WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 9, 2010
A cookie a day for your fluency
Foreign visitors adapting to life in modern Japan have scores of advantages that travelers of the past could never have envisioned, even in their wildest dreams. Like e-mail, Skype, YouTube and the general all-encompassing mesh of the Internet.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 26, 2009
The industry of the under-motivated
"How do you do?" The man greets her in Japanese and bows in his doorway. He wears the same teasing grin and the same rumpled shirt as always. Even the cookie crumbs on his collar seem the same.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 12, 2009
The most annoying Japanese word
Several weeks ago a poll from the Marist Institute of Public Opinion — one that was slingshot quickly across the Internet — listed "whatever" as the most annoying of all English words.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 28, 2009
Five is a beehive in this country
"Two's company, three's a crowd and four is a party."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 14, 2009
List twist: unheralded Japanese foods
Man cannot live by bread alone. No, he must also have lists.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 31, 2009
Putting a little bug in your ear
Sometimes beauty resides not to the eye of the beholder. Instead, it lives in the ear of the listener.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 24, 2009
A little less east of Eden
John Steinbeck's 1952 novel, "East of Eden," is a tale of two families and one city — Salinas, Calif. — with the plot hinging on the sibling rivalry of a pair of brothers. The movie came along in 1955, winning James Dean a posthumous Academy Award nomination in the role of more convoluted brother.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 17, 2009
An encounter of the old timer and the kid
I don't notice much during my hours of commuting across the Kanto Plain and at the same time I notice everything. For it's mostly all the same . . .
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 3, 2009
Snap, crackle, Pocky! The stick that stirs the drink
Some people like to slam Japan as being non-innovative. The Japanese, these people say, can take anyone else's idea and make it better. Better cars, better cameras, better reality TV. And so on.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 19, 2009
Sometimes you just have to shout it out
The other day I met this crazy lady on the train.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 5, 2009
How to become a gaijin that can say no
I wish I could say, "No." I wish I knew how.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 22, 2009
The right word and the right to choose it
If you are a foreigner living in Japan, odds are high that language learning has played a key role in your residency.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 8, 2009
Everyone knows it's windy
Most people don't find much humor in typhoons. But maybe that's 'cause they don't look.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 25, 2009
Why I fly the coop
There's this foreign fellow I know that when asked about his favorite place in Japan, always answers like this . . . "The departure lounge at Narita."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 11, 2009
The lost decade
Dame Senility may one day cloak my eyes with her perplexing veils of memory gone astray, but when she does, I will be ready.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 27, 2009
Standard of living meets house of correction
Recently I had coffee in the Ginza with a friend from abroad, a Japanese gentlemen making a rare pilgrimage back to the land of his upbringing.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 13, 2009
Superheroes to the rescue
What I could use in Japan is a superhero.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 30, 2009
A look at the outside and the in
"Honne and tatemae" are terms that many feel are linchpinned to the Japanese psyche.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 16, 2009
Holy mackerel — a fish story
If you live in Japan long enough, various shipwrecks of odd jobs will float your way. For example, a short while ago I was asked to do some translation work regarding . . . fish.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 9, 2009
In search of picture-perfect Tokyo
Tokyo is infested with camera bugs. I can identify three species, at least.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
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.
In first month of operations, ride-hailing services used more than taxis in Tokyo
As of last Sunday, ride-hailing services, which use personal vehicles to offer paid rides, had been used a total of 12,628 times in five areas.
Tech giants start to treat Southeast Asia like the next big thing
Attendees arrive for Microsoft's event on AI technologies in Jakarta on April 30.
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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