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New Year Joy

Although few people in Japan observe the ceremonial end of the New Year holiday, 鏡開き (kagamibiraki) and 小正月 (koshōgatsu) falls between the 11th and 15th of January and it concludes…

It’s a Sin

24 October 2022 Hiro and I ventured out to a big concert a week and a half ago. The opening act was the DJ Paul Oakenfold, and the headliners were…

Fortunate Ones

11 October 2022 I stopped taking horoscopes seriously when, as a teenager, I learned that a Capricorn’s favorite colors were supposed to be green and black. WRONG. My colors are…

To the Next World

29 September 2022 CW: a brief discussion of teenage suicide thoughts I attended a writers’ conference last weekend and one of the interesting takeaways I had was a new awareness…

Colors of the Wind

19 September 2022 Colors and the names Japanese people know them by reflect a minimum of three different sources over time. Those different sources are easy to identify. And from…

One Ringy-Dingy

9 September 2022 How do you combine a Japanese love of number-based wordplay  and the gay male urge to cruise with pre-Internet, pre-cellphone technology? The answer for Japan in the early 1990s? You let…

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