My latest Tokyo Weekender article “Why I’m Glad I Got Stuck in Japan During Covid-19” is several hours old and since it got published the response has been a ringing fire house. It’s on fire. I’m mad humbled. Thank you. At the moment my daughter is adjusting to elementary school, which is an incredible challenge. Every morning it’s like she’s getting ready to run through a gladiator course. “Dad, I’m going in. I’m going in,” she says in so many …
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The untimely death of George Floyd inspired global anti-racist protests that continue to this day. Here’s his story. This is about a young lady’s experience of growing up half-black half Japanese in Japan. (with Japanese subtitles) Cocoalizzy, born and raised and in Japan, talks about what it was like for her to grow up here. A great and at times hard to watch film about people who grew up in Japan, half-Japanese half-other. (with Japanese subtitles) I’ve been compiling this …
This morning was a quarantine dream. I talked to podcaster, writer, rapper, and Shanghai social commentator, Randy Flagg. I’ve previously written about him, here. I did not know we’d be talking live. It’s been years since I’ve talked to this brother face-to-face. I signed on through his streamyard link (which I’ve never used) then all of a sudden, live, I’m on the internet. “Oh shit.” Surprise, it was comfortable and good to reconnect with an old friend. He’s been grinding …
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