Welcome to America and to Free Republic, Tomoko.
My family and I lived outside of Kobe for three years in the mid eighteen-eighties. I have many happy memories of Japan and the Japanese people.
I completely understand your last sentence as my husband’s secretary confided in me that many of the men in the company relied on the women to do such simple things as setting up their computers for the day.
Gaijin joke, “Watashi wa” does not mean “nose”.
Sumimasen, I couldn’t resist.
nineteen-eighties