I went back to Kumamoto in early April to meet Governor Kabashima and Mayor Onishi, and to talk with peop...

It is not often that one can point to a single decision that seemed quite ordinary at the time but was tr...

At about five-thirty in the morning on January 17, 1995, I woke up in the dark for some reason and got ou...

There are so many touchstones of U.S.–Japan friendship throughout our common history, but I was especiall...

When I graduated from high school, I decided to buy a Greyhound bus pass and spend the summer before I st...

I spent a day this month in Tsukuba Science City to see the cutting edge research and development being d...

It was so much fun interviewing Dr. Agnes Chan about international education! She has had such a glorious...

It had been wet and overcast all autumn, but this particular day a low-pressure front had swept over the ...

I came to Shibamata to pay homage to that great character in Japanese cinema – Tora-san – and wander arou...

It is a long-established ritual for the American family to go on a road trip with their high school senio...

“Bikkuripon!” I tried this expression out during a dinner with my Japanese counterparts to see how far an...