Love and Marriage - Japanese and American

Sometimes I receive email or comments asking about marriage, specifically about being married to a Japanese woman. I've been meaning to write something about this. Not that I'm an expert, but for those who are asking, here it is....
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Building a Hopeful Home in Japan

We spent the last 2 nights at my wife's Jikka (hometown). Yesterday at dinner we talked with her parents about the recent earthquake and tidal wave disaster in Asia. Our good friends were staying in Khao Lak, Thailand (a...
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Harajuku Graffiti and Phone

At first glance these pictures support the theme of disorder starting to develop here. A wall covered with graffitti and a vandalized phone. Euw...dark, menacing, postmodern... But hold that thought. Tokyo graffitti isn't the same as graffitti in inner...
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Impact of the Camera

Yesterday I met a friend in Tokyo. We had ramen at a "famous" place in Kabukicho, in Shinjuku, that he'd seen on TV. The distinctives were the atmosphere (clean, glass walls, well lit) and lots of green onions (a whole...
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