(Part 1 will deal with given names. Please see next week for Part 2, which will be about family names!) To the unfamiliar ear, Japanese names may sound, well, foreign. By this I mean they’re hard to remember (woe to your new Japanese friends) or just plain weird sounding. Of course, to the Japanese (and…
Source: Me. (A view from Gujo City, Gifu) I’ve decided to start a little weekly (or maybe bi-weekly) blogging series about life in Japan, both from an academic point and from a living-there-as-a-foreigner point. I mean, why not? It’s my major area of study since puberty, damnit. So to get a jump on some ideas…
Hey all, just a real quick check-in for nano. Currently have my goal of writing at least 2k a day still going (that’s how much I write on average anyway, except now I’m accountable, haha) of the first short coming out next month. I thought it would only be about 7k, but at this rate…
If society has taught Aiko anything, it’s that one day she will marry a man. Not until she meets Reina, a lesbian with a knack for flirting, does she decide she wants to experience a different kind of sexual liberation – assuming she can overcome her insecurities and nosy family. As she succumbs more and…