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II was always hanging around my mom. When she was preparing meals, I was always peaking over the table asking, “What’s that?” From my earliest …
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“Boys don’t cry.” That’s the mantra for how boys are raised in Brazil. And when they become adults, they’re told “Housework is a woman’s job” …
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The Japanese here have a saying, “A wise man climbs Fuji-san once, a fool climbs it twice.” After getting myself and some friends up and …
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I happened to speak with Chef Bill Telepan yesterday, who was full of news about his recent trip to Japan. He was one of eight …
My Japanese professor recently assigned a short essay in which we had to compare life in United States to life in Japan. Specifically, she wanted …
Read “Part 1: Preface” >>The Waters“What am I doing here in this endless winter?” —Franz Kafka, from The Metamorphosis and Other Stories My brown body …
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I am writing this on April 24th, more than a month after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the coastal and inland areas of Tohoku …
My name is Nathan Kenji Kasai and I am a Japanese American student studying abroad in Kyoto. I’ve traveled to Japan after studying Japanese for …
Read Part 8 >>This is a recreation of my personal experiences from the e-mails that I sent to friends in Canada and Japan, TV news …
Read Part 7 >>This is a recreation of my personal experiences from the e-mails that I sent to friends in Canada and Japan, TV news …
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