All posts tagged "family"

  • New study: All-day preschool proves more beneficial to children than half-day programs

    A study by the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development recently published in JAMA Network found that the length of preschool program that a child attends has a significant impact in his/her future academic success. Professor...

    • Posted January 4, 2024
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  • Giving your toddler a headstart the Montessori way

      According to child development experts, toddlers begin stringing words into short phrases at age 2. By age 3, they are able to link words and say longer phrases effortlessly. Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori discovered...

    • Posted November 30, 2023
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  • Retailers announce price increases: What will affect the family’s purse strings?

    Perhaps by now, you have spotted that the price of a product/service  you paid for a month ago is getting more expensive. There have been recent price adjustments that some economists are calling the effect of how...

    • Posted October 30, 2021
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  • Family life in Tokyo according to an American couple.

    A funny couple and their 3 sons from Maine used to live in Tokyo for many years. Although they have long left Japan, they have picked up some habits. Bill and Karen Pond speak up what family...

    • Posted May 19, 2020
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  • Nick and Jacky: Funniest thing seen in Japan

    For newcomers, life in Japan can be quite an eye-opening experience. This month, Tokyo Families talks to parents Nic and Jacky about kids, culture shock, love, and life in the Tokyo jungle.

    • Posted May 31, 2012
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  • Noriko and James:”The new must-have”

    It’s official. The hottest essential gadget ever to hit Japan is not the latest Play Station or an Ipad. It’s a Geiger counter. In just five months following the powerful earthquake that triggered a nuclear meltdown in...

    • Posted July 29, 2011
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  • Meet the Bergmann Family

    What brought you here?  Nicolai: My father also worked in the flower business and had business in Japan. When I finished my studies as a flower designer in Copenhagen, I came and worked for some of his...

    • Posted December 27, 2010
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  • Tokyo Settlers: The Lefeuvres

    Where is your family originally from and what brought you to Japan? We (Nicolas, my husband, Oscar & Eliott, my sons and myself, Bérengère) are from France. We moved to Singapore right after finishing our degrees and...

    • Posted February 1, 2009
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  • Newcomers: Meet the Wilsons

      Bob and Julie Wilson arrived in Tokyo late last year from the Boston area, along with their daughters, Rachel and Emily, aged 6 and 3. TF’s TAMMY LEE interviewed them in their home in Roppongi Hills...

    • Posted June 1, 2008
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