By some freak of genetics that I don’t pretend to understand, I have been blessed with everyman-like...
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I had intended to work at the friendly, rural junior high school and friendly, rural elementary school...
From an unspecified newspaper on an unspecified date – probably more than a decade ago – and...
Hunt for video game loser who left home Police last night stepped up a hunt for Mr...
One thing I never got round to doing before I confessed to Mrs Muzuhashi that I’d be...
When you tell Japanese people that a British wedding can go on all day, or that an...
Tatémaé (建前), also known as jotoshiki (上棟式) or munéagé (棟上), and not to be confused with the more...
Because of the background noise, which necessitates turning the volume up in one’s headphones to potentially damaging...
A great deal is made of first lines, first pages, first chapters – first novels and first...
Some of you may not be aware that I once wrote a book about Japan, and that...
