"Three, two, one, yoi shoot!" With a swing of our arms, the children and I launched our tops from our hands, careful to hold on to the thread. "Shippai!" or "I failed," a student said her top toppled over. But not me. Not … [Read more...]
The famous novel Memoirs of a Geisha is told from the perspective of a fictional geisha named Nitta Sayuri. Sayuri has a dramatic, eventful life (with some guy by the name of Koichi causing a lot of trouble early on) but … [Read more...]
Show of hands, who has ever traveled with their family? Pretty much everybody? It’s different from traveling with friends, isn’t it? Whether you’re driving a few hours down the road or traveling around the world, each … [Read more...]
In this article, “half” refers to a person of mixed race who is half Japanese and half something else. Although for the past 20 years it has been suggested to use “mixed-race” instead of “half”, the word “half” is still … [Read more...]
1985. What a year. The Nintendo Entertainment System debuted in the U.S. to near immediate success. What American video game makers had abandoned as a dead market, Japanese video game companies picked up and revitalized. … [Read more...]
Did you ever have an idea that you were sure no one else would ever think of? And then, because we have the Internet, you found out that there were people doing the same thing all over the world? That’s what … [Read more...]