Look: Headed to Japan for an assignment or meeting, or just interested in the country? You’ll want to take a look at this, A Life in Japan. It is a low budget, homemade documentary profiling 19 expats from 10 different nations as they share stories about their time living in Japan. Don’t let the opening music put you off, this doc is filled with some very interesting interviews, cultural insights and personal stories about what expat life in Japan is all about.
Listen: Comedian Kumail Nanjiani is having quite a run. He’s starring in the current HBO series, Silicon Valley, about the struggles of a group of Silicon Valley programmers trying to launch a company (a terrific show!), and has a new series on Comedy Central. In this short and very funny interview, Nanjiani discusses how a 19-year-old from Karachi, Pakistan, came to Iowa, USA to study computer science but ended up becoming a comedian and other thoughts on life as a Pakistani immigrant in the United States.
Read: Trying to get a handle on what’s happening in Greece and the impact it might have on the rest of Europe? Here’s a terrific article by economics professor, Richard D. Wolff and his perspective on the Greek economic crisis and its potential outcomes.
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