Country of the Blind
Hone Your Visual Sensuality and Eloquence with the Game of Kakiemon
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Photo by Coolmitch [This game takes its name from the 17th-century Japanese potter who, inspired one evening by persimmons hanging fro...
Warped Reflections in an Icy Mirror
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Disney's animated Frozen has just hit the American theaters at this writing. The Japanese opening is still some three months a...
Setting Out for Lost Empires
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Photo by falco500 I had dinner with a friend from Niger, West Africa last night ( not Nigeria—ooh, don't let her catch you making t...
A Cramming Case Study
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Recently a company I do R&D consulting work for asked me to serve as a translator on a conference call with a potential client in Japan....
Prince Edward Island - Quebec City
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(Click on any photo for a larger version) How I spent my summer vacation: three days driving from Maryland to Prince Edward Island, a...
Scenes from San Francisco
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(Click on any picture for an enlarged version) I last visited San Francisco over 40 years ago. Surely the city has changed, but the w...
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