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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Somebody Said Tonight We Speak Honne. I Kept My Tatemae Up.
At the end of every year, the place I worked held a bonenkai, 忘年会、a party for forgetting the year. A long table, food, drink. At some point in the evening somebody said the sentence that gets said at these tables, and then other people said...
Nobody Told Me I Had Stepped Too Close
On maai（間合い） — the distance between two people that Japanese treats as something you measure with your own body, and the one meaning of ma I left alone before.
The Sunday letter comes every other week and is for paid subscribers. Monday an...
Every Winter I Buy a Lip Balm I Already Own
Every winter I buy a few lip balms. The small kind, for the dry months. One goes in the coat pocket and one in the little pocket inside my bag, so that there is always one within reach. Then I cannot find either of them. I buy another. A we...
The World Admires Ma. On Mondays I Say It to My Son.
Monday mornings in my house have a sound, and it is not a pause.
There is a Japanese phrase for what happens to my older son on Mondays. Getsuyobyo, Monday sickness. The weekend is over and school is back and the body objects. His head hur...
The Air Only Exists Among People Who Will See You Again
I was in an elevator at a station with a woman I did not know. Older than me, well put together, her phone on a strap across her shoulder, and the strap was braided from Edo himo, the silk cord you see on a kimono sash. It was so lovely tha...
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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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