I'm 5,200 miles and 17 hours from where I live in Silicon Valley, California, yet I feel strangely at home here in Tokyo. Much of the reason has to do with technology, though it's also related to the ...

TOKYO >> Among the English-speaking community in Japan there has been a long-running debate over whether to use the word “foreigner.” Personally, I prefer using “non-Japanese.” The word “foreigner,” I ...

Englishman Bryan Jenkins was living peacefully with his Japanese wife Itsuki and daughter Alice in London, when his Japanese mother-in-law suddenly passes away, and the family decides to uproot to ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.