My favorite new Japanese expression is "barcode hair," pictured above. Second favorite: "pudding hair." Pudding means flan in Japan, and pudding hair is dark hair dyed blonde, with dark roots growing out on top. 
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Until April 18, I'll be circumnavigating the world working as a volunteer web reporter aboard Peace Boat, a Japanese NGO committed to peace, human rights, equal and sustainable development and respect for the environment. To read my reports about the voyage, click on the ship in the right-hand column below.
Books I'm reading (or read recently)
- Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
- Bangkok Boy
- A Short History of Laos, the Land in Between
- Inventing Japan
- Sparkling Rain
- Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants to Japan
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its own Lost Generation
- The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why
- The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
- 1491: New Revelations about the Americas before Columbus
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Oh, this is priceless, Kimi!
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