“Family and Relationships” Category Archive

2005年03月14日 月曜日

ダーリンは外国人

by Mizuko Ito

Books, Family and Relationships, Humor

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...

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2005年03月10日 木曜日

Charisma Man

by Mizuko Ito

Books, Expats in Japan, Family and Relationships, Humor

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...

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2003年01月24日 金曜日

Ohaka Maeri Chinese Style

by Karuna Shinsho

Family and Relationships

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...

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2002年11月30日 土曜日

Karuna Shinsho

by Justin Hall

Family and Relationships, Features, Japan Abroad, People

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....

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2002年10月17日 木曜日

Raising Three Bilingual Children

by Mizuko Ito

Biculturalism, Family and Relationships

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...

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2002年10月15日 火曜日

NIS Food Fair 2002

by Mizuko Ito

Community, Family and Relationships

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。...

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2002年09月30日 月曜日

A Tenessee Woman in Wartime Japan

by Jane Pinckard

Books, Expats in Japan, Family and Relationships

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...

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2002年01月12日 土曜日

Beyond the Mask

by Mizuko Ito

Books, Family and Relationships

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....

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2001年09月18日 火曜日

The Modern Madame Butterfly

by Mizuko Ito

Books, Family and Relationships

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...

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