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Shaking off winter introversion
A tiny corner of Japan awakes, gets to work on the fields and crops.
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Tsukasa Miyamoto advises landlords on maximizing rent
A property name is everything in Tokyo. It's the dream.
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Have a seat. It's your living room.
Most towns in Japan, even the dustier nooks of the big metropolises, still have a family-run eatery. The plastic menu'd and microwave-food conglomerates…
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Have a seat. It's your living room.
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Want to live in Japan? Learn the calendar.
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Rub-a-dub-dub with the neighbors
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The Setting Sun of the Seto Inland Sea
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A Seventh Century Pyre
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Window seat
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A Panther Stuns Her Prey
Thai Massage review
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Listener Alert: New Cafe Eager to Sneer at You Opens!
Good afternoon and welcome to another exciting episode of “Shops of Tokyo That Don’t Really Want to Be in the Business They’re In.” These are the…
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Want to live in Japan? Learn the calendar.
Never do a tiling job in July, dummy. Always put a bowl of tangerines out in December.
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The Setting Sun of the Seto Inland Sea
Hajime Yamaura and his wife Kasumi moved from the rush and costs of Nagoya City back to her family’s uninhabited and decaying home high in the hills of…
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A Seventh Century Pyre
Consider starting this tradition in your own community pronto
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An evening at Gaslight decades ago
Tsuyoshi Nagai fastened his silver cufflinks set with blue Murano glass stones. It was almost time to leave for the bar he ran alone in Kasumigaseki.
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It's in black and white
Noboru Otsuki is a tax cheat. That’s what the newspapers wrote, and when an individual’s name appears in black and white here in the public record—no…
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