Honoring Donald Richie’s legacy
Category: The Last Word 
Living in a country not designed with you in mind
On the second anniversary of disaster there is still rage at a lack of answers.
An elderly couple is healing their Tohoku town with fresh produce
The “small-apartment complex” hints at bigger issues in Japan
Tokyo’s people deserve the Games despite their self-serving politicians
Underwear bandit plagues Tokyo’s residential areas
Japan’s overtures to changing child abduction laws ring hollow
Intra-gaijin relations: Giving them the once over
J-pop is losing the popularity contest in the West
The notorious ex-expat wife has been forced into hiding
An easy source of income is lying under Japan’s nose
Japanese cabbage farmers find their way in the Arab Spring
How Japan’s declining birthrate became a political football
Japanese social dynamics in a sport of individual self-expression
The rights and wrongs of staring at strangers’ chests
Noble restraint leaves no doubt of Japan's recovery





























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