Fast, reliable AG offers advice from Yokohama on a fast and reliable way to get money from the USA to Japan."Use the old-fashioned international postal money orders. You can buy them at any post office in the USA, value up to $700 each. Simply mail them by letter to the recipient in Japan. (In case of loss or theft you can reclaim your money.) "Here in Japan, cash them at the next post office against your ID."Sexual desert E. remembers reading...
`Don't talk. Bow when you go in. Forty-five degrees is fine. Agree with everything he says, even if you don't. Smile a lot - but sweetly. And wear a skirt. Do you have one?"This was the advice I was given when I told my friend Natalie that I was to be interviewed for the position of editor of an English magazine - a monthly Time Out-style guide for expats - in Tokyo. Natalie is a broker for a German bank in Japan. She is independent, intelligent and...
About 90 percent of the e-mails most of us get are worthless: people peddling pornography, natural Viagra guaranteed to make you feel 17, ways to get rich without working.In the last month, urban legends have joined the junk mail list. The stories are hard to believe, but we want to believe them. We wish they were true, especially the ones about Sept. 11 and the subsequent anthrax scares. They aren't true, though, and most of us know that, but we still forward them to friends....
The stage at La Comedia Dinner Theatre is the same floor where hundreds of diners stand to heap their plates full at the buffet carts, night after night.Transforming it in less than 30 minutes into a space that can suggest numerous locations in post-World War II occupied Japan is as difficult as it sounds. But the Springboro theater and restaurant is doing just that for the regional premiere of the two-act musical Sayonara, which opened last week as the biggest and one of the best...
Their eyes meet on the street. Too shy to talk. Boy beeps girl. She beeps back. Welcome to teenage dating, Japanese-style.The Lovegety, a $22 gadget designed to make it easier for the sexes to meet, is the latest fadquake to rock Japan, with 400,000 already sold. The makers seem to be onto something: Maybe love could use a little help from technology.This is how it works: Girl is walking down the street, or maybe bored on the subway, and spots someone interesting. She switches on her...