Gaijin, what may be the first dedicated okonomiyaki and kakigori restaurant in Chicago, opened Nov. 11 in the West Loop. (Other restaurants have served one or the other and possibly both at one time, ...

Gaijin. To most foreigners and Japanese that I know, it's just a word. It means foreigner, and as non-Japanese living in Japan, we take it with a sense of humor that it is what we are. But to a number ...

After over a decade in Japan, this week I got a letter from the Japanese government. It said that the alien registration card (外国人登録証明書), or informally “gaijin card”, was vanishing. Starting this ...

The deep level of dissatisfaction of many foreign teachers and managers in Japan is the topic of this second article. Let me say that this article is not intended to be a Japanese management bashing ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Former Cubs and Rangers righthander Spencer Patton was sold by the Cubs to the Yokohama BayStars in November and is in his first season in Nippon Professional Baseball. Patton is writing a diary for ...