The Last Word

Honoring Donald Richie’s legacy

I arrived in Japan having been advised: begin with The Inland Sea. As if it was a kind of duty American Millenials are bound to, I responded with willful ignorance. If Donald Richie was the “right” author to read during expatriation, I would read anything else. I spent my first two weeks in Japan traveling south...

May 8, 2013 | 11 Comments | 1,088 views
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Taking a Japan adolescence back to the UK

Apr 25, 2013 | 6 Comments | 1,790 views
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Prophetic sushi and a paean to an island nation

Apr 12, 2013 | 6 Comments | 1,643 views
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All’s well in Japan until visitors show up

Mar 28, 2013 | 3 Comments | 1,971 views
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Living in a country not designed with you in mind

Mar 14, 2013 | 4 Comments | 2,265 views
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On the second anniversary of disaster there is still rage at a lack of answers.

Mar 8, 2013 | 2 Comments | 1,616 views
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The battle for foreign expat supremacy

Feb 28, 2013 | 30 Comments | 4,542 views
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The perils of illness in the Japanese workplace

Feb 14, 2013 | 8 Comments | 3,343 views
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Omiai and the pressure to get married

Jan 31, 2013 | 3 Comments | 2,054 views
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A crystal-bead class in Iwate helps hope glimmer

Jan 21, 2013 | No Comments | 953 views
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Two views on the recent elections

Jan 3, 2013 | One Comment | 2,172 views
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An elderly couple is healing their Tohoku town with fresh produce

Dec 19, 2012 | No Comments | 1,920 views
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