United flight 139 from Denver International Airport to Tokyo's Narita Airport flies direct daily, and shaves off hours of travel time and stress from flying to the west coast for a connecting flight to Narita. Here's what I wrote when the direct flight on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was first announced. Technical issues grounded the plane for several months from the original...
Here's a P.S. to my post featuring the spot-on video of the "Where are you from" conversation that Asian Americans know too well....
This awesome commercial, titled "Just Checking," for the popular cereal Cheerios, the first snack of choice for generations of families with kids, has hit a nerve with people who object to the multicultural family it depicts. It shows an adorable mixed-race little girl asking her white mother if Cheerios is good for the heart. Mom answers that according to the...
David Wagner, a consultant, trainer and journalist who is originally from Colorado but has lived for years in Japan, had the opportunity to sit down and speak with two giants of Japan scholarship. Dr. Donald Keene and Dr. Joyce Lebra (a professor at the University of Colorado). It's a fascinating and far-ranging conversation, starting with both Keene and Lebra's...
Not many cats get their own Wikipedia entry, but Maru the Cat does. If you're a cat hater, Maru may leave you cold. But anyone with a soft spot for furry animals in generals and felines in particular won't be able to resist grinning over this "best of" collection by Maru's owner, a woman who remains off-camera and anonymous, under...
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