June 2022

In Japan, every August, there is a three-day festivity called bon. According to what I was taught, it is an occasion when our ancestors’ spirits come to visit us to spend the three days with us, and people celebrate it with a special dance festival in each local community. This dance is called bon odori […]

It was when I was about nine years old. One evening, our house phone rang. When I answered the phone, it was my father. “Dad, where are you?” I asked him excitedly. I used to look forward to my father’s return from work. “I’m in downtown. Can I talk to your mother please?” My father