How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE Apr 16, 2000

The season

by Jean Pearce

Last week I made a pilgrimage to my favorite places for "ohanami," cherry-blossom viewing. They were late this year. The cold weather and rain were enough to make us all but give up, but that day the sun came out and so did the ...

How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE Apr 12, 2000

Sweeter dreams

by Jean Pearce

I wrote recently of the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and the instant Westernization it prompted. The government encouraged efforts to make foreigners feel at home. One was directed toward ryokan and many of them installed Western-style toilets and created a few rooms with Western ...