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The beginning of 2014 marks the end of my fifteenth year in Japan. That’s more than enough time in one place for any...
Those of us who have lived in Japan for some time will often marvel at how quickly and definitely the seasons change. One...
On a recent business trip to Singapore I was taken aback when told by someone well connected in the American business community there,...
There’s no polite way of saying it. It seems to me lately that Japan is turning into a nation of cheapskates. But, truth...
At the beginning of 2011 The New York Times wrote a piece with a headline “Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan.”
Top chefs from around the world predicted that vegetables and “fabulous experimental vegetarian food” would catch a wave in 2012, along with the...