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Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were adopted into families that had no ...
In Japanese folktales, old women are sometimes cast as the “bad guys.” You see it in “Tongue-Cut Sparrow,” in which an elderly lady clips the ...
It takes Gen some time to calm Tom down. After all, I, his enemy, have taken over his grill. It doesn’t matter whether you ...
After I was used by Morgan Taketa, I stay in my bed of Amazon packaging and bubble wrap for almost two weeks straight. Unfortunately for ...
We are sitting in a restaurant in Battery Park, which is on the south side of the island of Manhattan. Morgan tells me that it ...
“This was just amazing.” Morgan Taketa says after wiping his lips with a cloth napkin that was hand-sewn by my best friend, Risa. He still ...
Deep’s Butcher Shop in East Harlem is nothing like the ones I’ve seen in other parts of New York City. Yes, there’s ...
My feet are swollen and sore, and it’s all because of pork belly. In Japan we had a special distributor which brought our okonomiyaki ...
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A-ra, I think, struggling to turn off the hot water shower faucet. My uncle. The last person in the whole wide world that I want ...
“I guess we are throwaway girls,” Risa says, helping me to unpack one of my boxes. I do not know why it is taking her ...
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