A former resident of Taipa Village reminisces about the cold water flat with a squat toilet she called home for 3 and 1/2 years in the early 1990s, giving her a window on a world that is fast disappearing as the settlement gentrifies.
My First Trip to Hawaii: Departure from Oakland Airport
Travelogue: an 18 year California boy's Hawaiian adventure begins.
Sendai, Japan: Reader Feedback
What timing! The day my upbeat post on Japan's upcoming Cherry Blossom Season was scheduled to be published, I arrived at the gym, and everyone was watching TV. I have never seen such intense interest on a television programme at this gym before – unless it was a Korean soap opera. That's the first I …
My Six Months in Sendai, Japan: Arrival
All eyes are focused on Japan as it comes to terms with the devastating earthquake and tsunami that have rocked the country, especially the city of Sendai, which was closest to the epicentre of the quake and suffered most lethally from the massive waves that followed More than three decades ago, Michael Taylor spent six months …