by isaokato | Jul 23, 2013 | Post
I was listening to a friend of mine who talked about how things were about to end with his girlfriend. It was clear that he and she lived in separate worlds from the beginning of their relationship, yet they loved each other dearly and tried to fix things up. It was...
by isaokato | Jul 22, 2013 | Post
Yesterday was a historical turning point for Japan, my passport country. A parliamentary election led to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党 in Japanese) and its coalition take the majority in both the upper and the lower house. For at least the next three...
by isaokato | Jul 21, 2013 | Post
The Á La Carte era When I first came to Taiwan more than 30 years ago I was a little kid, trailing my father’s job like a thread of poop dangling along a goldfish. Although my family was located in Kaoshiung, a lovely Southern Taiwan city, I studied in a Japanese...
by isaokato | Jul 19, 2013 | Post
The new MacBook Air with a promised all-day battery has finally arrived in Taiwan. I believe it is totally unfair that the home country of its manufacturer receives the goods one month later than the release date, but aside from that, I now have a 13-inch mobile...
by isaokato | Jul 18, 2013 | Post
I was talking with a friend of mine about the class system. Coming from the United Kingdom, he could immediately tell which class a person belonged by listening to his or her accent. The UK class system, according to him, actually has nothing to do with money or...
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