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Katrina Grigg-Saito
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 31, 2009
Eco-friendliness starts at home
Hiroko Kawata, a tour guide with the nonprofit organization Japan for Sustainability, covers her microphone with her hand and whisper-rehearses a section from her handwritten notes, running over a few words and the trickier English phrases. She nods to Julie Emmings, her British companion, who unfurls...
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 31, 2009
Eco-friendliness starts at home
Hiroko Kawata, a tour guide with the nonprofit organization Japan for Sustainability, covers her microphone with her hand and whisper-rehearses a section from her handwritten notes, running over a few words and the trickier English phrases. She nods to Julie Emmings, her British companion, who unfurls...
CULTURE / Books
Aug 9, 2009
The ups and downs of global parenting
Reviewed by Katrina Grigg-Saito Not every parent faces the questions of what language to speak at home or in which hemisphere to raise children. Not every parent is faced with sorting through the morals, rules and customs of disparate cultures, and not every parent feels growing pains with their children,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2008
Seeking photographic destinies
His figures cut through the sky, crisply suspended, on their way into the water. Sometimes they are immersed, or watching from a shore, but most often they hang in the air, about to split the drink in two. For Lithuanian photographer Vidas Biveinis, water represents a changing emotion, expressive of...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 5, 2008
Schools aim to cultivate returnee students' 'second culture'
Yuki, 7, zooms around the school lounge in her neon T-shirt, hugging teachers, gesturing wildly, making jokes and chattering away in perfect English. Yuki is Japanese and learned English when her family lived in Los Angeles for two years. She is affectionate and expressive, or at least she is on Saturdays...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 19, 2008
Zaha Hadid's Chanel UFO
'I was waiting for you so impatiently, torn between pleasure and pain," the voice hisses. It is a woman's voice, tinted with French, throaty and insistent. "Stay with me," it begs. "Don't wander off, I need you."
CULTURE / Art
May 29, 2008
Violet Hopkins: lux, lumen
Gallery Sora, Tokyo's Shinkawa

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