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When I was in the 5th or 6th grade, I used to spend many hours in the school library. There was one book in particular that I loved. It was a collection of stories titled 窶堙懌?堙壺?堙ォ窶堋オ窶堙姑短ニ蓄窶堙娯?ーテ (The Song Of The Cicada Of Illusion) by a fellow named...
I was taught from a very young age that it was wrong to steal. Yet, on two occasions that I can recall, I have taken something that did not belong to me.
Back when I was in grade school, my then best friend and I were big fans of Ultraman, a TV series about a superhero who came to our...
I am turning into such a sap. It doesn't take much to make me cry these days...
Unlike most of what's out there today, Japanese pop songs of the 70s & 80s were
written and performed by professionals.
Take this song, 窶禿倪?禿遺?堙姑地ニ停?愴谷ニ蛋ーニ稚(Cotton Handkerchief) sung and made famous by...
I have been on a mission to find decent deli meats. Those of you who live in Japan can understand just how difficult that is.
Back in the US, I once had a job slicing meats and cheeses in a deli. There, I met the Genoa Salami that would rock my world so hard I now cannot imagine myself...
While my NISSAN MARCH is in the shop getting prettied up after the accident, they gave me this 660 cc mini-car to drive.
It is called Wagon-R. I don't know what the R stands for. This morning, I asked my neighbor who drives one but even he didn't know.
I have been noticing these...
One of the things I used to love doing as a kid was to go to the movies.
There were 5 movie theaters in the city of Ashikaga back then. Chuou Gekijou aka Chu-geki and Scala-za mainly showed Hollywood films while Plaza and Asashi-za specialized mostly in Japanese films.
Then there was...
My beloved Nissan March was involved in a minor trafic accident yesterday afternoon.
I was at a stop light on a quiet street under an over-pass. This metalic blue Mazda Demio (which, btw, was chosen as the 2007 car of the year) in front of me backed into me.
The driver, a 42 year old...
You crawl home from another trying day at work.
More bills in the mail box.
You open the door and are blasted by the sound of Yugi-Oh from the living room.
The kids are fighting again.
Bob, your husband, is nowhere to be found, probably down in the basement on his computer...
In 1979, when I was 9 years old, all the children of Japan came face to face with a terror that they had not ever experienced before.
The terror, her name was 口裂け女 (Kuchi-sake Onna). She was supposed to be a young woman in her twenties with long black hair. She always wears a white mask, you...
I got into a big fight with my mother right after coming home last June after 20 years of living abroad.
It happened at a small family gathering with my parents, my brother and his family. One of my nieces who was a highschool freshman was telling me about who were popular in the...
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