Tag Archives: work

Family Day? Not in Japan

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

One of the problems with maintaining a blog about child raising is that the child-raising itself takes so much time that thee is little time to blog about it. If I thought I had little to,e last year while on … Continue reading →

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Year 2: Colleague Reactions

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Just over 5 months ago, my year-long child care leave ended and I went back to work. Since then, I haven’t posted on this blog for a very good reason: I was insanely busy. Of course, not too busy to … Continue reading →

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Endings and beginnings

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

I go back to work tomorrow on April 1st. My year-long paternity leave is over. No April Fools.

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“Men should work, women should stay home”

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

I sat outside the passport center building with my daughter in her stroller and showed both her passports. “Now you’re officially both American and Japanese,” I told her (of course, she had no idea what I was saying; she just … Continue reading →

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The Tanakas, “tenkin,” and “o-mutsu-koukan”

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

A few weeks ago (before all the hospital melodrama), I took my daughter to a nearby supermarket…which had a “baby care room” on the second floor, next to the roof parking lot. We had been invited by a Japanese couple … Continue reading →

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