"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Shari has been disrupting the placid waters of Japanese life with her western ideas for the last 17 years. She's written textbooks and been a teacher and remains ever vigilant for her own tendency to view the world through the eyes of ethnocentrism.
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Understanding "The Enemy"
How getting to know my now conservative friend helped me grow up and become a more open-minded liberal.
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Catharsis vs. Craft
For me, blogging is catharsis, but journalistic writing is craft.
Japan has been openly subjecting foreign residents to illegal searches and will soon track them like criminals.
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Japan: A "Safety" Country
There's a big difference between "safe" and "safer than."
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The Body Language of Prejudice
Visitors to Japan are told silently but unquestionably that they are different.
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Book Review: Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
An author finds the answers she wants to hear rather than seriously exploring the issue at hand.
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Wallowing in Victimhood
The Japanese tend to talk as though WWII started in August, 1945.
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Gays in Japan Stay In The Closet
Society is neither hostile nor sympathetic toward gays in Japan.
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An Apology Goes a Long Way in Japan
Japan’s corporate takeover king goes to prison.
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Comfort Women or Sex Slaves?
Japanese reluctance lets their government closet history, excise it from history books, and run out the clock until the last of the victims have died.
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