During my latest trip to Japan, an advertisement for a book ダーリンの頭の中(Inside my Darling's Head) caught my eye. It seemed to be an English language book, but in manga form, and written by a Japanese woman about her Western...
This semester, I am teaching my Japanese Popular Culture class, and my students are bringing in things that they find as "show-and-tell" reports. This is the first of several installments on chanpon-themed items that my students are cluing me...
There's nothing like a visit to your ancestors' grave to make you appreciate life. In this case, it was a visit to my husband's paternal grandmother's gravesite in China. I've paid my respects to those who have passed on in...
In this three-part interview, former CNN/NHK anchorwoman Karuna Shinsho speaks about her childhood in Japan and Hawai'i, as the child of a Buddhist minister, now an avid spam-eater and mother of a possibly tri-lingual child....
A posting by Penny Kinnear in the chanpon member discussion boards in a thread about raising bilingual, bicultural children: This has been a topic close to my own heart for many years. When our first child was born, my husband...
The annual Food Fair at Nishimachi International School will be held this Saturday, October 19. Lots of great international foods, fun events for kids and families. Date: Saturday, Oct 19 Place: Nishimachi International School, MotoAzabu Tokyo Time: 10am-3pm www.nishimachi.ac.jp 西町インターナショナルスクール恒例のフードフェアが10月19日（土）に開催されます。...
In the course of my undergraduate thesis research I came across this marvelous book, Bridge to the Sun, by Gwen Terasaki. Her story is dramatic, romantic, and moving, and she writes in a very simple, understated style that only enhances...
On Jan. 6 The Japan Times reviewed a new book on cross-cultural marriage from the opposite prespective as Karen Ma's book, foreign women marrying Japanese men. The book is called Looking Beyond the Mask....
WuDunn describes an old saying: A man is in heaven when he has an American house, a British salary, a Chinese cook and a Japanese wife. My mother, a Japanese wife herself, often joked that she wanted a Japanese...
