“This is strange,” my daughter said as we sat in my father’s living room, “Why do Japanese need to find a Japanese in a remote foreign country?” “I don’t know.”  I felt a pang of guilt; I should know why. We were watching TV in Japan and the program went like this.  A Japanese comedian … More Imagine that!

Japan is a very good place to live if you have friends or family there.  There’s a lot of kindness and good will to go around. I recently spent time with my father in Northern Japan.  My daughter needed to practice piano, but my father didn’t have one.  I casually mentioned this to one of … More Aunt Sato and her hydrangea