KRISTIN ORMISTON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY BENNETT GALLOWAY (top) AND ALFIE GOODRICH (bottom) Full name: Ylva Kristin Ormiston Age: 42 Nationality: Canadian Grew up in: Victoria, British Columbia Time in Japan: four months Japanese level: Sagoi! (very low!) Works at: Little Star English School, Gotemba, Shizuoka Why did you come to Japan? One of my best friends [...]
by Tokyo Adventist Dental Clinic‘s RITSU OIKAWA There are fewer clinics and hospitals to choose from if you are not fluent in Japanese. But it is very important to know some characteristics of a good clinic. Here are some tips on how to find a good clinic: Search Nowadays, the Internet is probably the most [...]
BY MARY BETH HORIAI Relaxing in your boudoir may not be on your priority list but I am beginning to think it should be on mine. Those who know me have chuckled when they heard I was “assigned” to receive a plethora of treatments from the Australian-owned Women’s Day Spa Boudoir and then write about [...]
BY KAREN CARMELI During this month of Valentine’s celebrations, people’s thoughts often turn to love, and not always in a happy way. When a long-term relationship ends people can often become reluctant to fall in love again, mainly because of having negative experiences and painful disappointments. People have so many preconceptions about men, women, love, [...]
Two great events are upcoming in Tokyo and of interest to foreign women in the community. On March 8–9, the Tokyo American Club Women’s Group will be hosting their perennially-popular Tokyo Here and Now event, the essential guide to living in Japan. TAC organisers say that whether you have been in Japan for three months [...]
BY KIRSTEN ADACHI I’d like to introduce seri (セリ, 芹, Java water dropwort or Japanese parsley) to you. If you are like me, you have passed by this green vegetable hundreds of times without noticing it. It’s neither eye-catching nor aesthetically pleasing, nor does it play a large role in Japanese cuisine. It’s just a [...]
BY LEIGH WELLSVIEW (image to left: Ryanne Konno as Mercy Lewis, Hannah Weakley as Abigail Williams, Hiyori Onozaki as Betty Parris, and Victoria Caccavale as Mary Warren in Tokyo International Players’ The Crucible, March 1-4 at Ebisu Echo Theater.) Founded in 1896, Tokyo International Players (TIP) is the oldest English-language theatre group in Japan and has a rich and varied history. The volunteer-run [...]
Love origami but not sure how to decode the complicated instructions found in books? Having trouble visualising just what a valley fold is as compared to a mountain fold? Thanks to Heather, an American woman who has been living in Japan for 14 years, origami can be entirely possible for all of us! She creates [...]
BY KRISTIN ORMISTON, PHOTO: ALFIE GOODRICH I am moving. Tomorrow I am leaving the Tokyo apartment that has been home to me for the last four months, and I am relocating the city of Gotemba, Shizuoka. Everything just sort of happened, it fell into place. I was working on finding a job when someone unexpectedly [...]
BY MARY BETH HORIAI The environment column for Being A Broad this year will be dedicated to Energy and all it’s forms, usage, and mystery. The majority of humans take little care to know or understand where energy comes from, how it is produced into electricity and other forms of power, and what the impacts [...]
