Japan

There Is Nothing We Can Do About

A Japanese philosophy has taught me about acceptance

Fiction

The Disappearing Dishes

Food is love, all the way to the end

No One Believes That I’m Japanese

Mixed race people often do not receive the acceptance that everyone…

A World Without Pain Is a World Without Heroes

Five months after an earthquake shook Japan, I visited…

Cigarettes in the Dark

I once knew a guy who touched a woman on the platform at Shinjuku station. Groped, maybe. He said he never meant to do…

Chasing Cats

For Hiro, it started in the fifth grade, on the mountain paths of Tonodake.

Operation Fateful Encounter

Takeshi called his plan to get a girlfriend, “Operation Fateful Encounter.”

Anything Within Reason

Of buying, selling, loving, and losing