“When East Marries West” ran in The Japan Times from 1998 to 2015, with over 400 editions. Most – but not all – can be found on The Japan Times website for a fee. Here, I will upload one or two editions a month free of charge.

While the early columns offered funny commentary on East/West family and marital mishaps, within about a year I had depleted my supply of personal anecdotes and cast my humor in a wider direction.

The column burst into a mix of cultural observations, wild dialogues, literary parodies and, of course, continued swipes at married life, child-raising, and growing old, with one foot planted in Japan and the other clinging to my home in the American Midwest.