After I finished college in the early 90s in East Asian Studies, I decided that I wanted to go to work in Tokyo. My first job was at a large mercantile trading company with a huge headquarter office in the central business district. The office was traditionally configured in a large open plan with more senior staff by the windows and new recruits like me arr...
"We need another memory card," Bill said to Laura. It was their first trip to Japan and they were in danger of having no more memories available. Laura had proclaimed if they didn't have a picture of it, it didn't happen. Bill had taken nonstop shots in an effort to please his wife. "Okay, we can go to one of those six-floor stores all over the place," Laur...
Jane spent a lot of time rummaging through her arsenal, deciding which lotion was best for pork belly's rubdown. It gave the camera more time to idolize her figure. "I didn't realize pork belly was staring at my butt," Jane said. "Look at that. Jesus, now I'm embarrassed. I was really bending over there. You can see my crack. Gee, you really learn a lot wh...
I never used to believe in luck. I always thought that a person created their own luck. You just had to be in the right place at the right time, and be prepared to take advantage of the opportunity when it presented itself. Then when that opportunity came around, you grabbed ahold of it and ran with it as fast and as far as you could. That's what I always th...
I was in my second year of a joint language and law master's degree at a major US university. The work had kept me busy, and while I'd kept my hand in dating some of my fellow grad students, nothing had seemed to click. Then one day I was sitting down at my favorite street cafe on campus when a cute brunette coed sat down at the table beside me. She was quit...
My wife and I had been at dinner and probably had a little too much sake, she'd also had half a tab of E so she was feeling like kicking on all night. Miyako is Japanese 154cm tall about with the best looking tits and tiniest waste you've ever seen and a face like the famous Hakata Ningyo doll. She is the most beautiful woman I, and from the looks she gets,...
Over the weeks that followed my party, Robert never directly confronted me with the fact that he had cum all over my wife, but our dynamic had changed. Robert had always been a rather demanding boss, but now he had a bit of a sneer when he told me to get a report to him. He would sometimes have me get him and others coffee when we were going to have a meetin...
This is a calculated risk, the first chapter of a fairly long story I've been struggling with off and on for several months. When I hit a dry spell, I fleshed out a few ideas for shorter pieces and submitted them, but this story started calling me again. I've almost finished it, but unfortunately the most incomplete chapter is the next one. I was going to wa...
Author's Notes: Decades ago, I wrote this story under another nom de plume. Recently came across my original text with old photographs of my first love, and decided to refresh and update it for your reading pleasure. As always, all characters are eighteen or older. Please enjoy. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I recently attended my tenth-year high school reunion. It was good t...
Of course, after such experiences, I had left for Italy full of nostalgia, longing to be in Japan again. But I did not ever think to move there for good. As someone wisely said, tourism is one thing, emigration is another. And this applies to Japan more than to many other places. To integrate in Japan, for a foreigner, is really difficult, from the cultural...