
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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When I was a child, my mother would load the three of us into the car, my sister, my brother and me, and take three days to reach her mother’s house.
Three days. By shinkansen and a local train, it was a morning to evening trip. Even by ca...
On our last evening on Ishigaki Island, I was standing at the harbor with nowhere I needed to be. My sons were watching the water from the boat landing, shouting every time they spotted a fish. The wind that had been coming off the sea all...
On Tuesday mornings, before I make tea, I straighten the things on my kitchen counter, and then the bookshelf.
Not because they are messy. They are not particularly messy. I move the kettle a few centimeters to the left. I fold the dish to...
The application form asked for my name, my qualifications, and my availability. It did not ask where I wanted to go, because the organization did not work that way. You took their exam, you sat their interview, and if they accepted you, the...
The Sunday letters arrive every other week.
The Sunday letters arrive every other week. The free essays continue as always. Sunday is for the rooms I do not usually open.
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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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