Category Archives: inlaws

Home for the holidays (Part 2)

Posted on January 1, 2015 by MThomas

As I wrote a couple days ago, I’ve been spending the New Year’s holidays with my wife’s family in Kagoshima for a decade now. In that span of time, there have been five children born into the immediate extended family, … Continue reading →

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Nenmatsu-nenshi

Posted on January 25, 2011 by MThomas

I’ve spent the past five New Year’s at my in-laws’ house in Kagoshima, in the southern island of Kyushu. “Family” consists of my wife’s parents, my brother-in-law (who works at a hospital and is usually on call and/or working throughout … Continue reading →

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Home for the holidays

Posted on January 8, 2010 by MThomas

For New Years, my wife and I brought our baby back to her hometown, a small city in southern Japan. My daughter was born in a small hospital there, while I stayed elsewhere and continued to work. Even then I … Continue reading →

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