All posts tagged "Featured"

  • Setting loving limits for our children… and seeing them through

    As adults, we live with limits every day. When we drive, we are required to follow specific speed limits. If we don’t conform to this, there may be consequences such as being given a speeding ticket and...

    • Posted September 7, 2015
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  • Transforming Work Part 4: Purpose Over Profit

    (This is the 4th article in a series                                                                                                                                                        on the mindsets of  workplace transformation.                                                                                                                         Click to go to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)  The fourth mindset shift is one that leaders and employees at all levels desire, but have trouble sustaining – the shift from a...

    • Posted August 14, 2015
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  • Cooking with Tao

    At age 18, Spain-born Tao Romera Martinez left his hometown Murcia to attend the INSA university in Rennes, France. Ten years ago, he came to Tokyo to do a six-month internship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology...

    • Posted August 14, 2015
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  • Learning Problems in Disguise

    By Dr. Marielle Gorissen-Van Eenige As all parents and teachers know, children enter school with a wide range of abilities. Although teachers try to find ways to meet the learning styles of each student, some children will...

    • Posted August 7, 2015
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  • Humans take a back seat, robots take over at Hen Na Hotel

      At the entryway, hotel guests are greeted by a bowing robot and over at the reception desk are a Japanese-speaking female humanoid with lashes that blink and a savage-looking dinosaur that speaks Japanese and English. The...

    • Posted August 7, 2015
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  • Bali offers great options for all-inclusive family holidays

    Like many expats, my husband and I don’t have family nearby who can watch our child if we want to take a vacation on our own. So when we decided to take our first holiday to Bali...

    • Posted August 6, 2015
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  • Transforming Work Part 3: From control to creativity

    The last two months have featured two key mindset shifts that forward thinking leaders and employees must make to have a positive impact on transforming their workplace. The first was to shift from a surviving work style...

    • Posted July 10, 2015
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  • Transforming Work part 2 FROM STATUS TO SERVICE

    An ever-growing volume of research is demonstrating that if businesses are to thrive and profit for the long term, work must become a source of aliveness, not just livelihood, for each and every employee. To achieve this,...

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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  • Stressed or Eating Disorder?

    Women in general are exposed to every day stress from life events or outside pressure. The stress may be in the form of beating deadlines or interacting with people, etc. When this happens, the stress hormones adrenalin...

    • Posted May 11, 2015
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  • Transforming work and workplaces

    For more than 25 years now,  I have worked with individuals and organizations to transform their work and their workplaces. In many ways the situation has improved. Technology has made it possible for people to work from...

    • Posted May 11, 2015
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  • Fainting during pregnancy

    “I’m 32 years old and gave birth last year.  During my first trimester here in Tokyo, I fainted twice and was unconscious for a few seconds.  Later, I was examined and found out that I had low...

    • Posted May 6, 2015
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  • Golden Boy

    Did you know my kid is kind of a celebrity? He wasn’t when we lived in Ohio. He’s cute, sure, but his blue eyes and blond hair only garnered him the occasional “Aww, isn’t he sweet?” from...

    • Posted April 9, 2015
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  • Seth Casteel’s Underwater Babies

    Japan statistics point to a high incidence of death caused by drowning in the 5-year old age group. The work of Seth Casteel, an American bestselling, self-taught photographer brings a heightened awareness to families all over the...

    • Posted April 4, 2015
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  • Frizzy, damaged hair? What’s the cure?

    Brazilian Blowout! Going to curl-focused stylists every couple of weeks is nearly impossible for moms whose parenting and work duties keep them too busy. Indeed, there are tons of quick-fix styling products in the market but those...

    • Posted March 11, 2015
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  • Tired of outdoor parks? Ditch the park and get your kids a job at Kandu!

    Kandu is an indoor theme park for kids (similar to Kidzania only twice smaller) with edu-tainment value. Let the kids pick their dream job and roleplay all day while you parents take a break at Kandu’s  inhouse...

    • Posted March 11, 2015
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  • Going Sakura viewing? You’ll love these family friendly spots

    PLEASURE FOREST Pleasure Forest photo by Sagamiko Resort   Weekdays 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Sat/Sun/Hol 9am – 5pm Fees: Adults 1,700 yen Kids/Senior 1,000 yen Attraction: Giant amusement Park 1M Sakura trees 5M led lights for...

    • Posted March 11, 2015
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  • She quits her day job to start Japanese homestyle cookery classes

    Four years ago Mayuko Okada was a sub manager for a cosmetic company. At work, she met a Japanophile couple touring Japan from Finland with whom a friendship blossomed. Because of the couple’s love for Japanese culture...

    • Posted February 16, 2015
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  • Mornington Crescent: British Home Style Baking

    Although Japanese people are generally lovers of all things sweet, they avoid the cloying kind. Western pastries in particular are widely viewed as excessively sweet. Thanks to the active campaigning of culinary cognoscentis, the critics are beginning...

    • Posted December 15, 2014
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