BY ANNA KUNNECKE You’ve heard it before: perfection will permit no mistakes, while excellence learns from its mistakes. This means that if you’re doing it right, you will actually make—I’m sorry to break it to you—mistakes. And not theoretical mistakes; no, you’ll actually fall down hard a few times. On your rear. In public. You’ll [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KERRY RAFTIS Many thanks to everyone who came to Suji’s on November 12 to help celebrate the 50th issue of Being A Broad! Nearly 100 of our past cover girls, sponsors, readers, friends, and family members were on hand to help celebrate the big day. Special thanks to Suji’s for hosting, Kerry Raftis [...]
BY MANDY KITCHENER India has been a place of intrigue for me ever since I was a child. I had read of Yogis who buried their heads underground and survived days without food or drink, as well as rich marvels of architecture devoted to love—and who hasn’t experienced the joyous colour and life in abundance [...]
BY SHANA GRAVES A lot of the challenges facing foreign women living in a country like Japan include not only the exterior struggles such as culture and language, but the challenges that also seep into ones home, specifically the kitchen. As Tokyo continues to grow as a metropolis, issues of space arise and residences must [...]
BY SUZANNE MIYAKE My first exposure to anything Japanese was in graduate school in California from 1999–2001. At that time I met my best friend, Chigusa, a Japanese living in California, who introduced me to sushi for the first time. Japan was an exotic land to me and I hoped to go there some day [...]
The holidays are nearly here, and for many of us the next couple of weeks will be full of frantic planning and shopping as we try and find the perfect gift for everyone on our lists. To help you out, and with the help of some of our supporters, we’ve compiled a list of gifts [...]
BY SARAH BAKER I’m pregnant in Japan! When my husband and I relocated to Japan seven months ago from San Diego, we knew that attempting for our first child was in the game plan while abroad. Family planning is common among a lot of couples, but having a husband who is a Navy Officer makes [...]
COMPILED BY DANIELLE TATE-STRATTON FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, has decided to expand the 2015 Women’s World Cup from its current 16 countries to 24 because of increasing popularity for the sport. In honour of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the UN has pledged over ten million dollars to support 13 [...]
BY GABY SHELDON The year may have just begun, but already parents of toddlers are looking ahead to September as they decide which preschool or kindergarten their children will attend. The decision isn’t an easy one, since there are a plethora of preschools in and around Tokyo. When I was looking for a preschool for [...]
BY LOUISE MUTTER Beep beep beep, snooze, beep beep beep, snooze—it’s a constant battle every morning with the alarm clock. It can be a workday, an early morning training run, it can even be after eight to nine hours of sleep and it’s still a struggle to get out of bed feeling energised and ready [...]
