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Japan Perspectives

A high-school student's workweek

All Change in Japan

BBC Japan came and went
on 'wrong' first-choice satellite
 New!

Branch of Tokyo Sky-Tree sprouts beer pubs

Can Japan afford all its public holidays?

Conglomerate X

Crime and U.S. servicemen in Okinawa

Don't let bad bicycle days run you down

Educational reform in Japan... [satire]

English OS PCs once a challenge in Japan New!

English-Language deficit handicaps Japan

Experiencing other cultures in Japan

Fascinating story of inns in Japan

Foreigners in Japan say openness all talk

Having a baby in Shimane

Hospital death exposes 'tip of malpractice iceberg'

Immigration as a source of renewal in Japan

Importance of questioning fearlessly and answering honestly

In Japan, fast food is fast becoming a health hazard

International marriages in Japan

Is Japan giving up?

Japan in a post-American world

Japan's crisis of the mind

Japan's rebels rare, but hard-core

Japan's 'returnees' face rejection,
find that coming home isn't easy

Junior high school English: '3 years to read 20 pages'

Lafcadio Hearn, rolling stone who gathered moss in Japan

Law in Japan

Like Japanese Food? Try a spaghetti sandwich

Living longer, divorcing later

Mama-san's babies

McEnglish for the masses

Mountains and deserts

Noisiest nation in the world?

Our beef with Japan

Organized crime and the forest

Plethora of barriers narrows food choices for Japanese

Remembering the ghost of a Christmas past

Seiza — the traditional Japanese sitting posture

Selling sex in a glass — Japan's pleasure trades

Speaking a different language

Summer grass — A 'gaijin' among volunteers

Takarazuka Theater makes women,
and men, of talented girls

The cold and the kotatsu

Weather...for better or worse

What not to do in Japan: die

When cultures clash — 'sizing' up the opposition

When in Rome, do as Romans do?

Why foreign men like Japan (It's the girls!)

 

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