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Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were adopted into families that had no sons. …
In Japanese folktales, old women are sometimes cast as the “bad guys.” You see it in “Tongue-Cut Sparrow,” in which an elderly lady clips the …
It takes Gen some time to calm Tom down. After all, I, his enemy, have taken over his grill. It doesn’t matter whether you are …
After I was used by Morgan Taketa, I stay in my bed of Amazon packaging and bubble wrap for almost two weeks straight. Unfortunately for …
We are sitting in a restaurant in Battery Park, which is on the south side of the island of Manhattan. Morgan tells me that it …
“This was just amazing.” Morgan Taketa says after wiping his lips with a cloth napkin that was hand-sewn by my best friend, Risa. He still …
Deep’s Butcher Shop in East Harlem is nothing like the ones I’ve seen in other parts of New York City. Yes, there’s a large refrigerated …
My feet are swollen and sore, and it’s all because of pork belly. In Japan we had a special distributor which brought our okonomiyaki restaurant …
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A-ra, I think, struggling to turn off the hot water shower faucet. My uncle. The last person in the whole wide world that I want …
“I guess we are throwaway girls,” Risa says, helping me to unpack one of my boxes. I do not know why it is taking her …
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