The Wind of Tharn

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 Posted in japan, teaching, work | No Comments »

I just read this piece in the Japan Times, labeled a "letter" to the Minister of Education, Tatsuo Kawabata. It's going to get about as much attention as the guy wearing the sandwich board proclaiming the Apocalypse is upon us. It ...

Obamamaniarama

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in japan | 1 Comment »

For our anniversary, Chiharu and I took a trip southeast of here to the Shimabara Penninsula: We stayed two nights in a little town on the western coast whose name means “little beach” and is pronounced and spelled Obama. Yup. Obama is a ...

Can’t we just stick to the evil clown?

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in japan | 4 Comments »

Today I saw this photo: If you haven’t already heard, there’s a minor stink about Microsoft’s using of this photo. If you didn’t catch it, look again. Same photo, different head, right? Look closer. Whoops, they forgot the hand. Vitiligo aside, ...