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Two hundred years ago, Japanese haiku poet Yosa Buson wrote: I cannot see her tonight I have to g...

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Yuichi Nakasho feeding a piece of cake to his bride, Yuko Sasakawa, during their wedding reception at a wedding hall in Tokyo.

Christian marriages increasingly the norm in Japan

Immaculately dressed in a black tuxedo and bow tie, Yuichi Nakasho and Yuko Sasagawa, his bride i...

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Zensai - Japanese Snacks and Appetizer Recipes

Enjoying a variety of bite-sized foods over cold beers and hot sake is one of the best ways to re...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Hina Dolls

Priceless Dolls

Since ancient times and in all parts of the world, dolls have been created for many reasons. To d...

Japan Audrey Lim

Buying and Trading to Build Your Yu-Gi-Oh Deck

There are many different cards in the game of Yu-Gi-Oh. Almost every different one has a differen...

Japan Will Raus

Film Review: Tampopo (Written, Directed and Produced by Juzo Itami)

Food, Glorious Food! And the thousand ways it ignites the human spirit, from a decadent culinary ...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Film Review: Laundry

Oddly enough, an old Mexican proverb, "God creates them, and they find each other," perfectly epi...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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Japanese Colonial Architecture

SEOUL, Aug 5, 2005 - Like the British, the Dutch, the Spanish and the French before them, Japanes...

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In Japan, children are treated with the utmost care and attention. The literacy rate in Japan ranks among the world's highest, and the infant mortality rate is among the lowest. Despite its population density and astronomical cost of living, Japan provides excellent 'quality of life' for its children.

A Child's Life - Japan

A story told with photos.

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Charles Baker's Drunken Oriental Junket

An NPR interviewer once asked writer David Sedaris why he had left New York and moved to Paris. H...

Indonesia / Thailand / Japan Kenneth Champeon

The Tokyo district of Rygoku is home of one of Japan's most famous Sumo wrestling facilities. Sumo wrestlers train very strenuously for their six annual basho tournaments, and must consume up to 10,000 calories a day to achieve and maintain their enormous stature. When they're not in training however, they can be seen strolling the city sidewalks wearing blue and white cotton robes called yukata.

A story told with photos.

Japan Robert George

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Tokyo's Golden-gai bar district

Taking a walk through Tokyo's Golden-gai bar district is like stepping back in time to early post...

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Sanyo employee Rie Uchiyama puts on her forehead a mobile phone equipped with bone conduction 'Sonic Speaker' which transmit sounds with vibrations via the skull instead of using the eardrum.

Japan's new bone phone

TOKYO, Jan 21, 2004 - Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of Internet-capable and picture-snappin...

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Esprit de Corps: An Interview with Percussionist Ralph Hardimon

An ancient Chinese proverb says, "A wise man does not need elaborate explanations; the good drum ...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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Japan: The Herd Mentality

Sephora, the French cosmetic store, was giving a fabulous pre-Christmas sale. Half of Tokyo's fas...

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Seventy-eight-year-old fortune-teller Terutsugu Eguma attends to a customer on the street of Ginza shopping district of Tokyo.

The fortune-tellers of Tokyo

* * * Every night when the offices close and the shops pull down their shutters, the fortune-tell...

Japan AFP/Niels Planel

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World War II shipwrecks turning into Pacific environmental threat

From the violent shores of Guadalcanal to a lonely Micronesian atoll, villagers and fishermen ali...

Japan AFP/Michael Field

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Film Review: Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden

Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden was shown during the 28th International Wildlife Film Festiv...

Japan Dawn Stanton

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Mishima's Last Words: The Sea of Fertility Part I

Telling Bobby Kennedy to go fuck himself at the White House, wrote Gore Vidal in 1971, "is trivia...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

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Japanese girls go crazy for foreign designer goods

Erina Kobayashi has been waiting since the previous night for a Tokyo warehouse packed with nearl...

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