Pretty much any native English speaker that lives in Japan either works, has worked or has been asked to work as an English teacher. I have even heard stories of random people running up to foreigners and asking them to teach English at their school. Strange but it does happen.

Despite the economic downturn in Japan, …

ASSES’BRIDGE indeed. Engrish in Japan needs no further explanation.

Yes, that handsome polyethnic fellow reflected in the window is me. As Henry Louis Gates (the famed black academic who gained notoriety when he was arrested by a white police officer for breaking into his own home) noted, the ideal interracial world will be when we …