During my recent couple of weeks in Tokyo a lot of people expressed interest in visiting me while I was going to be in Oshika. Visiting here as a “tourist” is, at this stage of the recovery, extremely encouraging for local people. Don’t feel that you have to come here and “do” something or volunteer [...]

I HAD to share this wonderfully encouraging (although a little sad) message I received ….. “About your book for Japanese men — my feeling is that young men in Japan fear becoming nothing but a salary to their wives, as many of the men in the previous generation became. I have middle-aged women in my [...]

I thought it would be fun to post some of the questions that kids in England ask after my talks on Japan — feel free to use these for any Japan trivia quizzes or anything! (I had to look up the answers for an embarrassing number of them and do correct me if my sources [...]

On December 9 last year, over a hundred people (mostly women but more than a few men too) gathered at the Canadian Embassy in Aoyama, for the first female-focused TED event in Japan. For those who don’t know, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and “challenges inspirational people to give the talk of their lives.” [...]