BY HEATHER SHIDA (image to left: David Roundhouse/Flickr.com) Towards the end of my first trip to my future home, I was told that, being in Nagasaki, I should go see the Atomic Bomb Museum. I think we actually wound up going on the anniversary day or sometime that same week. My husband and I [...]
BY KAREN CARMELI I’ve found out that nobody knows how to define fear. I hear a lot about what happened to people because of fear or trauma, but what exactly fear is, usually people can not explain. Fear is a pure energy that is flowing in the body like “waves.” People who are not allowing [...]
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 [...]
Join fellow foreign woman Karen Severns, film professor at the University of Waseda, and the International Center for Japanese Culture (ICJC) as they present a lecture on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan. The presentation will be on Friday May 25 at 7pm. For more information, click here. Of the event, part of [...]
BY KIRSTEN ADACHI I really like rice cooker lentil recipes. I have two others on my blog, Thymely Rice Cooker Lentils and Spicy Rice Cooker Lentils. I use the brown lentils in the rice cooker because the red ones turn to mush as they cook more quickly. This means you might be able to make a red lentil curry [...]
BY JOANNE WONG This is part three in a four-part series of blogs written by Joanne Wong about the audition, rehearsal, and performance process involved in putting on a show with Tokyo International Players. To read her second blog, click here. The set: Forget the quaint Disney-esque land of Oz portrayed in the MGM movie, and [...]
BY HEATHER SHIDA One’s first experiences with a foreign country or culture almost revolve entirely around food. I love food, but my world of food was extremely limited before going to Japan for the first time with my to-be-husband. I had the successful meal at Ringer Hut and I felt bolstered by that positive outcome [...]
BY JOANNE WONG This is part two in a four-part series of blogs written by Joanne Wong about the audition, rehearsal, and performance process involved in putting on a show with Tokyo International Players. To read her first blog, click here. On the first day of rehearsals, the cast and crew of The Wizard of [...]
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 FRANKI WEBB Kanon Hewitt is a performer first. Whatever other aspects of her you may think of when you intitially meet her, this girl is a performer. For someone so young it might be rather difficult to fathom how she can be taken so seriously, but she’s not only a performer, she’s also a [...]
