Category: The Last Word  

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From seekers and slackers to strivers and thrivers

May 23, 2013 | One Comment | 420 views
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Honoring Donald Richie’s legacy

May 8, 2013 | 11 Comments | 1,155 views
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Taking a Japan adolescence back to the UK

Apr 25, 2013 | 6 Comments | 1,868 views
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Prophetic sushi and a paean to an island nation

Apr 12, 2013 | 6 Comments | 1,648 views
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All’s well in Japan until visitors show up

Mar 28, 2013 | 3 Comments | 1,979 views
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Living in a country not designed with you in mind

Mar 14, 2013 | 4 Comments | 2,271 views
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On the second anniversary of disaster there is still rage at a lack of answers.

Mar 8, 2013 | 2 Comments | 1,620 views
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The battle for foreign expat supremacy

Feb 28, 2013 | 30 Comments | 4,548 views
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The perils of illness in the Japanese workplace

Feb 14, 2013 | 8 Comments | 3,350 views
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Omiai and the pressure to get married

Jan 31, 2013 | 3 Comments | 2,058 views
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A crystal-bead class in Iwate helps hope glimmer

Jan 21, 2013 | No Comments | 961 views
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Two views on the recent elections

Jan 3, 2013 | One Comment | 2,173 views
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An elderly couple is healing their Tohoku town with fresh produce

Dec 19, 2012 | No Comments | 1,926 views
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How did a new bear conquer Japan?

Dec 5, 2012 | One Comment | 2,861 views
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Learning Japanese from the Italians

Nov 22, 2012 | No Comments | 2,089 views
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Why Japan’s alienation will go on… and on

Nov 8, 2012 | 3 Comments | 3,791 views
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Harnessing the light in Tohoku

Oct 26, 2012 | One Comment | 1,875 views
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The “Tokyo Umbrella Exchange”

Oct 11, 2012 | 8 Comments | 2,261 views
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Start the rice ball rolling

Sep 27, 2012 | 6 Comments | 2,307 views
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The “small-apartment complex” hints at bigger issues in Japan

Sep 13, 2012 | 4 Comments | 3,121 views
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Will it K-pop in the US or not?

Aug 30, 2012 | 9 Comments | 2,745 views
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Let’s give Japanese women a hand

Aug 16, 2012 | One Comment | 2,426 views
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Is that the question?

Aug 4, 2012 | 6 Comments | 1,879 views
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Tokyo’s people deserve the Games despite their self-serving politicians

Jul 19, 2012 | 6 Comments | 1,983 views
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Are urban matsuri losing their meaning?

Jul 6, 2012 | 5 Comments | 2,225 views
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Underwear bandit plagues Tokyo’s residential areas

Jun 28, 2012 | No Comments | 1,578 views
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Japan should rethink daylight-savings

Jun 21, 2012 | 3 Comments | 2,123 views
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Are people still willing to help Tohoku?

Jun 8, 2012 | One Comment | 1,968 views
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The cost of Japan’s “Us vs. Them” mentality

May 24, 2012 | 30 Comments | 27,859 views
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Japan’s overtures to changing child abduction laws ring hollow

May 10, 2012 | 2 Comments | 2,558 views
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Intra-gaijin relations: Giving them the once over

Apr 26, 2012 | 13 Comments | 5,287 views
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Mottainai and the Japanese culture

Apr 17, 2012 | One Comment | 2,018 views
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Monsters, myths and man’s becoming

Mar 29, 2012 | 3 Comments | 2,638 views
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In praise of the Japanese community spirit

Mar 15, 2012 | One Comment | 3,088 views
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I'll show you mine if you show me yours

Mar 2, 2012 | 7 Comments | 2,630 views
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Why Japan is better than you think

Feb 24, 2012 | 6 Comments | 2,949 views
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J-pop is losing the popularity contest in the West

Feb 17, 2012 | 2 Comments | 3,460 views
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The notorious ex-expat wife has been forced into hiding

Feb 3, 2012 | 2 Comments | 3,275 views
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Fix up your life by fixing up a house

Jan 19, 2012 | 3 Comments | 2,297 views
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Food safety post-Fukushima

Jan 3, 2012 | One Comment | 2,132 views
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An easy source of income is lying under Japan’s nose

Dec 14, 2011 | 3 Comments | 3,420 views
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Japanese cabbage farmers find their way in the Arab Spring

Dec 2, 2011 | No Comments | 2,420 views
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How Japan’s declining birthrate became a political football

Nov 18, 2011 | No Comments | 2,355 views
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One expat decides it's time to leave Japan

Nov 3, 2011 | 10 Comments | 3,828 views
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Japanese social dynamics in a sport of individual self-expression

Oct 20, 2011 | No Comments | 1,763 views
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US-Japan yogic differences

Oct 14, 2011 | One Comment | 1,903 views
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What YOU think about smoking in Tokyo...

Oct 6, 2011 | 6 Comments | 2,161 views
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The rights and wrongs of staring at strangers’ chests

Sep 30, 2011 | 4 Comments | 1,746 views
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A bold answer to Okinawa’s problems

Sep 22, 2011 | 4 Comments | 2,582 views
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Noble restraint leaves no doubt of Japan's recovery

Sep 16, 2011 | 5 Comments | 2,319 views
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