I am extremely honoured and more than a little surprised to announce that my work with schools in Japan has been recognized by The Women’s Information Network in America that is celebrating 100 years of International Women’s Day. This coming Friday evening I will be presented with an “International Women’s Day Award for Outstanding Service.” [...]

I’m really looking forward to my event tomorrow night at the Conrad. After the marketing seminar I gave to international schools toward the end of last year, it became apparent that schools want to get advice related to the business side of their, well, business! But often people running schools are educators at heart so [...]

I often talk about the alternative work environment I have created for myself and those around me. One of the things that often surprise people is that the Being A Broad editor, Dani, doesn’t live in Japan but in Canada. You can read a bit about her story of how she came to work with [...]

GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT Thursday 24th February from 7:30pm at Fifty Seven. Strictly girls only! All foreign women and their Japanese female friends welcome. No entrance fee. Cash bar. Come alone or come with friends — you’ll make some new ones anyway. No need to RSVP but it helps a bit if you drop Emily or [...]

Oh my goodness! I’ve been nominated for an International Women’s Day Outstanding Service Award as part of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day this year. I don’t know much about it yet but isn’t that amazing???!!!!!

Come and join us on Sunday 27th February for a very special Being A Broad brunch, open to all our friends and not just foreign women! Men and women, Japanese or non-Japanese, singles and couples, are invited to Fifty Seven from 11am until 1pm. Come with friends, or come alone — you’ll be sure to [...]

I just sent the March issue of Japan School News off to the proofreader, and thought I’d post this super-cute photo and story from this issue, of sumo wrestlers visiting ASIJ’s Early Learning Center. Isn’t it great?! The American School in Japan’s Roppongi campus Early Learning Center (ELC) had a fun January filled with Japanese [...]

Just working on the March issue of Japan School News and found this story especially interesting ….. Aoba-Japan International School (A-JIS) will open a new e-Learning high school in September 2011. The A-JIS e-Learning High School — “a new way to learn” — will encompass grades 10 through 12 and work in conjunction with a [...]

I’m so excited about the 3-minute video that Patricia made today! She came along to my speech last week to Tokyo Union Church Women’s Society and filmed the whole thing, which I’d structured as six stories of six of my adventures in Japan (the theme being my adventures in Japan and all that!). So she’s [...]

I’ve just sent out the third set of questions for my survey on the love lives of Japanese men and Western women! I’m sending out a new set of questions every four days, throughout this month. The first set was all about Western women’s impressions of Japanese men, especially before they actually met any or [...]