Category Archives: Tokyo Diary

Tokyo Diary is mostly a series of shorts about the return of an expatriate to the city she once knew.

Being the betrayed 2

Meet Japan’s Generation X. They say the Haitian was luckier than them.

Riding the Anxiety Train 1

Japan Airline to file for bankruptcy.

Death and the aftermath in Haiti 0

A reminder of how fragile humanity is. It’s not fluff to admit that we are supremely vulnerable to the unexpected.

Reading Haiti 0

“The mangled corpse on a woman half crushed beneath the concrete, her head down as if in defeat, hung before him.”

Petro Security 0

The American’s $1-billion-a-day oil import

Week 1 at TFC 0

Off to a good start. We discussed Haiti, Google v. China, Palin and Fox News, and Peter Jackson’s new film.

#DecadeFail 0

So without further ado, an image of pure hubris…

Nevada, the biggest loser 0

The state got hit the worst in 2009, with the rate of 1 in every 10 houses foreclosed.

The Haitians’ tragedy 1

From these numbers, it is as if the entire population of New Orleans perished during Katrina. Jesus Christ!

Goodbye Conan 0

Never a fan of Conan’s dry, at times witless, humor, I can see why anyone would have sympathy for him.