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Thomas Dillon
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 23, 2010
Technical support — how it ought to be
My house is stacked with gadgets — from computers to cameras to game machines to bathroom scales that voice my weight, and more.
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.
Nippon Steel alleges undue White House influence on doomed deal review
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Dec. 10.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over bills that would 'damage democracy'
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party and opposition party Kuomintang brawl in parliament in Taipei on Friday.
Mother hopes for reunion with daughter ensnared by Tokyo host clubs
The Kabukicho district in Tokyo, where the daughter of a woman in her 60s fell deeply into the host club culture.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.
A year of Oscar wins and a quiet push for diversity
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” released in Japanese theaters in April, sharply dramatizes the clash between rural and urban values. The film won five awards at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, including the second-place Silver Lion prize.
Curiosity didn’t kill the meme: Why cats still rule Japanese YouTube
A screen shot from YouTube user @lagelda shows the simplicity of going viral in Japan in 2024: A cat dancing to EDM in front of a green screen.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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