Jenny Uechi is a Vancouver-based writer and sometime cartoonist. She recently escaped her capsule apartment in Tokyo and is happy to be back in Vancouver, where green grass is abundant and Chinese food tastes real.
There’s a kind of music that conjures up images of clear blue skies, horses roaming an emerald-coloured horizon. It’s the traditional music of the Buryats, an ethnic Russian minority that practices Tibetan shamanism and lives a nomadic lifestyle similar to … more »
By Jenny Uechi
Personal Mobility
Segway and Honda go head to head eight years after Segway came out with an ingeniously-designed yet horrifically-geeky personal transporter. For those of you who haven’t seen it in action, you only need to watch … more »
By Jenny Uechi
Vegetarian Boy Meets Carnivore Girl
No, it’s not some PETA campaign for girls who want to meet hot guys by embracing vegetarianism. Rather, soshoku danshi or “vegetarian boy” is a popular new term to describe a growing … more »
Monkey Majik
While many young ESL teachers in Asia brag about being treated like superstars by their students, Canadian brothers Maynard and Blaise Plant have actually gone beyond the confines of their classrooms to become full-fledged pop stars in Japan…
