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On navigating a more foreign language

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I study Japanese every day. For at least 30 minutes. I’m not great at it yet, but I don’t suck. I can make hair appointments and ask for parking validation. I can say, “It is sunny now, but later it will rain,” and I can ask the grocer, “Can I please have paper bags?”But when my parents visited me this spring, and we rode in a taxi from Tokyo Station to their hotel near the Palace, I couldn’t translate for my dad when he said, “This is the first cab I have ever been in where I can’t speak to the driver.

Failed state of mind: Kristen van Schie in the Central African Republic

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This map shows how much snow it takes to cancel school where you live

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Beginner’s guide to the Japanese onsen

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Why we’re losing the ‘War on Drugs’ [infographic]

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On judging an entire country off the one person you met from there

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How the ousting of the Egyptian president is like the Fourth of July

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As Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi becomes deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, you can hear the familiar grumbling of skeptics in the US. They knew this would happen, of course. The Egyptian populace chooses to sacrifice stability and depose Hosni Mubarak, elects an Islamist president, realizes the error of its ways, and forces its democratically elected president to step down.

Here’s what terrorism can’t destroy

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When tragedy strikes, it’s hard to divert our attention elsewhere. We mourn the loss of those we cared about, we support those injured through their recovery. We wrestle with our emotions — anger, confusion, hatred, sadness — in search of answers that might not even make sense. All of these feelings are natural, and we deal with them in different ways.

Playlist for Saturday at Coachella

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Why we’re losing the ‘War on Drugs’ [infographic]

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8 travel tips I learned from I Love Lucy

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I recently watched a classic American television special, “The Ricardos Go to Japan.” This was special to me for two reasons:I’m an American living in Japan, and I loved seeing the similarities and differences between the characters’ experience and what I know of Japan.I love I Love Lucy. I own all six seasons.

15 things most people don’t know about Martin Luther King Jr.

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1. He changed his name.Born Michael King Jr., his father Michael King Sr. changed his own name to Martin Luther King Sr. after traveling to Germany in 1931 and becoming a minister, in reverence to Martin Luther. There is still some controversy over whether King Sr. changed his son’s name, or whether King Jr.