Dear Editor, I love the new look of BAB! It’s the kind of intelligent, international, classy but sassy magazine that’s been missing out there. The broads abodes transformation was amazing this last time. Can you give me more info about it? I’m a little scared about letting a stranger into my uninspired little room. I [...]
Dear Broads, I just received my first issue of Being A Broad and am very impressed! It’s exactly what we need here in Japan—a form of media to bring together the many foreign women who find themselves living and working all over the country. As a way of supporting your magazine, I would like to [...]
Dear Broads, I was an avid reader of the magazine many years ago and I remember what a great resource it was; and I don’t mean through listings, I mean in terms of the community that you created through the articles and the interactivity between all the readers and the writers. I was so happy [...]
Dear Editor, Finally, a magazine for girls like me who love life in Tokyo but don’t know how to make the most of it. The article on adapting pizza making to my little grill oven is the kind of info I need. The first issue had me salivating so how about giving us more? More [...]
Dear Broads, First thank you for the free copy. It’s not often you get a freebie in this country, or even a good discount. Second, unused as I am to freebies, I thought I would share some reflections I had on the mag. I also get the mails from the website and, like them, the [...]
From September 1997 to November 1998, the original Being A Broad magazine was a source of entertainment, information, and inspiration to foreign women living throughout Japan. When co-publishers Caroline Pover and Emily Downey decide to re-launch the magazine, former readers, contributors, and fans sent their words of encouragement, found below. But don’t get the wrong [...]
