Karen Hill Anton: Crossing Cultures and Living in Japan

Beyond Talking Points, hosted by Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, provides author and community focused interviews to highlight a diverse range of perspectives on various topics.
Karen Hill Anton wrote the column “Crossing Cultures” for The Japan Times, Japan’s oldest and largest English-language newspaper, for fifteen years. She lectures internationally on her experience of cross-cultural adaptation, and raising four bilingual, bicultural children.
Karen Hill Anton is the author of the widely acclaimed memoir The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, winner of the Memoir Magazine 2022 Grand Prize. Her novel A Thousand Graces comes out in January 2023.
0:00 Introduction
2:32 Leaving the United States at 19 years-old
6:08 Becoming a mother in Denmark
14:40 Saying "Yes" to new experiences
20:06 Travel by land for one year to Japan in a Volkswagen Bug
28:17 Living in the Dojo under the direction of a Sensei
30:05 Living in rural Japan
32:25 Maintaining a sense of self
36:47 Most surprising part about living in Japan
Website:
www.karenhillanton.com/
Book:
The View From Breast Pocket Mountain
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