BY ALI MUSKETT Katie Elliott from Essex, UK, always wanted to find something to do in her spare time that was worthwhile and rewarding (besides being a mother of two, that is). After moving to Japan in 2008 as an expat wife, she soon became involved in fundraising for the Tabitha Foundation. The Tabitha Foundation [...]
I love Karen Sieg at the Azabujuban Branch of MUFJ bank. She’s always ready at the end of the phone to help you out with one banking matter or another, and will fill in all those forms in her perfect kanji so you don’t have to. She makes managing money here so uncomplicated!—CF
BY SHANA GRAVES Sophia University is one a handful of universities in Japan that offer business degrees in English, and Parissa Haghirian has been a part of this international faculty for five years. Parissa grew up in Austria and obtained her masters in Japanese Studies from Vienna University, where she was also awarded a Masters [...]
BY JANE DWYER-YAMADA Tokyo is inundated, saturated, even overloaded with places to get some form of beauty treatment. Even if you rule out all the places aimed at just the Japanese, there are still a lot who cater for the English-speaking, foreign market. How does one choose from the plethora on offer? I will come [...]
BY STEPHANIE KAWAII I came to Japan back in 2000, planning to stay and work here for a year teaching English and getting the whole Asia experience done with…little did I know at the age of 23 that Japan was going to be the place I’d end up calling home for potentially the rest of [...]
BY SOPHIE BECTARTE HOPE is about connecting people: the world’s poorest families and those who care about them. Since 1975, HOPE International Development Agency has been working in Africa, Asia, and the Americas to extend compassion to the world’s poorest in a continued effort to create a sustainable solution to poverty and create a world [...]
It might be summer but here at BAB, we’re certainly not slowing down in the heat! With the return of our monthly Girls’ Nights Out starting June 24 at the fabulous 57 in Roppongi, and our clothes swap on July 3 in Ebisu, there’s plenty of opportunities to make new friends if your old ones [...]
BY ALENA ECKELMANN Pilgrimage: “a long journey or search of great moral significance,” according to Wikipedia, is usually associated with a religious or spiritual quest. This is not what I had in mind when I set out to walk the Kumano Kodo, some old pilgrimage trails in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture. I simply wanted to have [...]
Name: Deanne Nationality: Australian Qualifications: Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Commerce, Qualified Hoop Dance Instructor Job title: Hoop Dance instructor and performer Employer: HOOPLOVERS Time in this job: two years Job description: I’m the founder and owner of HOOPLOVERS (www.hooplovers.com), a hoop dance community based in Tokyo, so my job description is a very broad [...]
BY KRISTI HEMMER My friends always imagine I’m doing glamorous things when I’m backpacking. That I’m taking the sunset cruise, eating yummy Thai dishes served with bamboo leaf garnishes, and drinking Singapore Slings from a coconut. They imagine me spending money all day long like they do when they travel to Disney, The Alamo, or [...]
