Mottainai. Ma. Danshari. Japanese words that carry entire worldviews. I'm a Tokyo-born writer and former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid — and say it, carefully, in English.
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I Skipped the Part of the Notice About the Heart
On kokoro（心） — the word our dictionaries cannot trace, and the list of things we are asked to do with it.
These Sunday letters arrive every other week. The free essays continue as before, on Mondays and Thursdays. Sunday is for the rooms I...
I Knew It Was Fair. I Still Could Not Let It Go.
Every August the television in our house shows boys playing baseball in the middle of the afternoon. The national high school tournament runs for two weeks in the hottest part of the year, and it is on while people are working, which is par...
What We Call Weather Is Sometimes a Decision
There is a joke I was told more than once in Myanmar.
God, having finally lost patience with the stupidity of the human race, took electricity away from the world. Everywhere, life stopped. In one country, nobody noticed. People went on co...
My Mother Was Not Finished Becoming
On wakei seijaku（和敬清寂） — the four characters hung in tea rooms: harmony, respect, purity, stillness. A Sunday letter about my mother, who kept all four while breaking most of the rules.
This is the Sunday letter. It comes every other week...
The Taste That Became a Compliment
My parents’ house is in Tokyo, but only just. Ride the train long enough and the city loosens its grip. The buildings step back, gardens appear, and in autumn the persimmon trees of my old neighborhood hang so heavy with fruit that the bran...
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How you speak. How you move. How you listen. In Japan, each has invisible rules no one wrote down. I'm a writer in Tokyo, a former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid and say it, carefully, in English.
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