Tokyo – First Post in Tokyo Metblogs

By tok_matthewSeptember 13th, 2004 @ 11:56 PM Uncategorized Hello Everyone. Is this the first post in the blog? Anyway, here in Mejiro we finally had our neighborhood festival and I thought I would share a picture which is below. Also, can anyone explain to me why so many otherwise sweet looking young Japanese girls are now sporting…… Continue reading Tokyo – First Post in Tokyo Metblogs

Tokyo – Looking in from the Outside

   As time passes our experiences shape our lives and character.  Many are content to follow the current of life and are swept downstream never challenging themselves or trying to change the tide.  They become complacent and live in a world where uncertainty and that which is unfamiliar is quite frightening and thus avoided.  Then there are those…… Continue reading Tokyo – Looking in from the Outside

A Practical Guide to Understanding Your Children

  How to understand our young is a question that has plagued the older generations for centuries.  In the common mentality that pervades the thought within a generation, it seems that the young simply get worse every preceding age group.  For them, morals and accepted methods of social interaction are tossed on their head, and…… Continue reading A Practical Guide to Understanding Your Children

A Practical Guide to Learning a Foreign Language

Learning a foreign language can seem like a daunting if not unachievable task to many of us.  I am here to tell you that learning a new language does not have to be the boring, monotonous travail that we begin to think it is from the outset of our freshman year high school language classes.  Thus, I…… Continue reading A Practical Guide to Learning a Foreign Language