By Deanne Beattie Milton K. Wong is, in person, every bit the leader you might imagine him to be. By reputation, he is known as a quick and resourceful businessman …
Features
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 …
By Stephanie Lim WEDDING GUEST LIST: CHECK, WEDDING VENUE AND FOOD: CHECK, WEDDING DECORATIONS AND FLOWERS: CHECK, WEDDING CAKE: CHECK, WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER: CHECK, WEDDING—MAIDEN OR HUSBAND’S NAME: DECISION. For many …
Written by Amy Chow Photos by Melissa Dex Guzman Fumie von Dehn admits that while growing up in Japan during the ’80s she wasn’t that interested in kimonos. “I was …
By Joni Low Beppu, Japan: a non-descript, urban landscape of decrepit buildings, scattered rubble, deserted streets. There’s an odd, grating sound on the pavement cutting into distant industrial sounds. A …
By Adrian Mack She’s given us an unusually rich field to pick from, but personally, my favourite Sook-Yin Lee moment came sometime back in the 1990s when she casually informed …
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 …
By Michelle Kay “There’s something humbling about craft…for a while, people were into high-tech, super sleek materials, which are really alienating. Right now when times are uncertain, it’s nice …
By Henry Tsang Wine represents so much to so many: class, culture, education, fancy food, expensive restaurants, disposable income, old world money, European history, colonization. Since the 1980s, the nouveau …
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…


