My friend Sar's favorite rant is the lack of kissing on Japanese television. Two people can wake up naked next to each other. People can run around almost naked. Sexual tension can hold Tokyo hostage, but the big pay off for most tv dramas is the most chaste little lip lock during the last episode. Argh put some feeeeeling into it (or at least a good grope and a bit o' tongue eh!). Bring me my Sex and the City DVDs post haste! Sexually frustrated, moi? Not worth thinking about I'm afraid.

Another friend (a fellow American), who works in the same office is getting married to a great Japanese guy in a few weeks. This will be my first traditional Japanese wedding. I can't wait to go. However B has had to adjust to a lot of things that go along with dating and marrying a Japanese man, which I'll get into in a different post. Watching her do the marriage dance affirms that I'm in no hurry to walk down the aisle (breaking my poor mother's heart here).