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WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 21, 2006
My dog -- the Buddhist
When it comes to matters of religion, I tend to equivocate.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 7, 2006
Getting away? No easy trick
Think you need to get away? In our case, a mother-in-law in dwindling health, jobs of various importance and a sense of responsibility too puffed up for our own good had resulted in this: For six years my wife and I had not taken a vacation. And this in beehive-busy Japan.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 24, 2005
Born and raised a 'gaijin'
The other evening after pushing my way onto the same train car as always, I hung there on my commuter strap and broke momentarily from my rush hour funk to find my reflection staring back at me from the window. There I stood with my shoulders sagged, my necktie loosened and a work world of fatigue weighing...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 10, 2005
Of countries big and small
"It's a big country," rings an oft-repeated line from a 1958 Gregory Peck-Burl Ives Western about love, honor and territory in the old West, a film appropriately titled "The Big Country."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 26, 2005
Do you know the way to Koganei?
Early in the 19th century an American writer named William Austin penned a story about a man on a horse and buggy lost on the roads of his nation. Yet it's much easier to be lost while abroad, and sometimes the most misplaced souls are those who have been away the longest -- as this "Flactured Fairy...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 12, 2005
Sixteen square feet of ignorance, and other trivia
"Tell me something I don't know," said my first son.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 29, 2005
Joji and the flagon: a 'Flactured Fairy Tale'
Man can learn much from myths. For example, one thing I learned from the myth of Sisyphus was never to name my kid Sisyphus.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 15, 2005
The 'Winter Sonata' blues -- revisited
He's baaack. Not that he ever went away.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 1, 2005
When cultures clash -- 'sizing' up the opposition
In our global village -- or at least in the Japan/U.S. corner of that village -- culture can clash over differences in values, interpretations of history, who makes better cars, how best to play baseball, or even over which national leaders are the more incompetent.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 17, 2005
Play it again, Sam . . . but with these lyrics
His name is Joe. And Joe says: "If you can't walk, dance. If you can't talk, sing. And you can't hear . . . just make things up."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 3, 2005
So you think you're busy? Well, that's nothing!
For many Japanese, one word sums up their entire lives: "busy."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 20, 2005
Lessons learned over the rainbow
Late August marks the anniversary of my arrival in Japan, this time totaling 28 years. So the question would seem to be, "What have you learned, Dorothy, in your long stay over the rainbow?"
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 6, 2005
What not to do in Japan: die
As a veteran resident approaching his 28th year in Japan, I would like to offer some simple advice to tourists, newbies and fellow graybeards as well. Which is:
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 23, 2005
Groping for answers on gropers
Beginning May 9, nine commuter lines in the greater Tokyo area began offering women-only train cars in response to the growing number of women being groped by men in the trains. The number of incidents reached 2,201 in 2004, up from 778 in 1996. Each line has designated one car from each train during...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 9, 2005
Japan -- where the oldies are always golden
That pitter-patter you hear right now is probably only the remains of the rainy season slipping drop by drop from your eave spouts. Yet there is another melancholy drizzle in this land that falls all year round. It is that misty-eyed drool for all things past. Yes, this country is literally dripping...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 25, 2005
NHK -- the way it should be
This year has not been kind to national broadcaster NHK, as a series of scandals have caused hundreds of thousands of households to withhold their service payments, from which NHK draws 97 percent of its income.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 11, 2005
Up in knots over natto
A reader from jolly ol' England recently sent this question:
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 28, 2005
The books I will someday write
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 14, 2005
The true scoop behind Japan's baseball superheroes
Another spring and another baseball season for the sports-numb nation of Japan. And once again the TV-viewing public is being regaled with starry-eyed tales of wonder regarding its established heroes: Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui and, this year -- perhaps due to the shortage of heroic clay here in Japan...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 30, 2005
Standing still in time and place
For my money, there are two "not-to-miss" sights in the overall Kanto area.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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