In the afternoon today I went out to the National Youth Center (NYC!!!) near Yoyogi Park to participate in an English discussion with the Japan-side delegation for the 61st Japan-America Student Conference. I signed up on a whim and was feeling kind of reluctant about it, but I'm really glad I went. I got to talk to a lot of Japanese students about ( Read more... )

If my understanding of the debate (or Q&A session, I guess) on Thursday night is correct, six of the eight Democratic candidates support civil unions -- with full rights that are granted to married people -- but oppose same-sex marriage ( Read more... )

I have such difficulty believing that my parents ever got along well. was there a day ( Read more... )

2003 census interracial marriage gender gap

The fact that Asian males are portrayed by the media is generally unattractive is something that has been coming up a lot recently-- at least for the events and things that I go to-- and the statistics are interesting. It's probably totally inappropriate that this data makes me feel a little better ( Read more... )