Chester’s Tips for Success

Here’s a story that was published in the Japan Times not too long ago that I wrote on a movie that debuted the Tribeca Film Festival.
With Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and the devastating earthquake in China, Tibet, which was receiving quite a bit of media attention only a month ago, has been completely overshadowed by [...]

A few weeks back, I read an article in Asahi Shinbun’s “Ronza” magazine by Akagi Tomohiro, a Japanese “freeter” blogger. Freeter is a Japanese word used to describe the growing number of young people in Japan who don’t hold a full-time job and still live at home with their parents. Aged 31, the [...]

If I asked you the question “How’s your job?” how would you respond:
A. “I hate it.”
B. “Eh, it’s okay, a job’s a job.”
C. “I love my job.”
I have yet to meet a person who answered C, though occasionally you hear celebrities and other “successful” people gush about how they have the best job in the [...]

I’ve been on a hiatus from this blog since I left Japan. At the end of February I finished my intern as a JET International Relations Coordinator in Saga City, Japan. Now I am working as an English News correspondent for Kyodo News, a major Japanese newswire that publishes in Japanese, English and [...]