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Indulge your Prince Charming fantasies here...

Tokyo's Butlers Café taps into the popular fantasy of Japanese girls that they will grow up to m...

Japan AFP/Kanako Nakanishi

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SJF Seeks SJM For Cherry Blossom-Viewing

It is a truth universally acknowledged, begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , "that a single...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

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

It is now 1940. Honda is middle-aged and Japan is on the brink of war with the United States. Lat...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

A giant ferris wheel, in Korakuen Amusement Park. Tokyo, Japan.

A Random Walk Through Technokyo

If all that glitters were gold, Tokyo would be doubly rich. Every turn you take in this dynamic c...

Japan Graham Simmons

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Japan on the Web

Outdoor Japan . Your guide to traveling the outdoors in Japan. Here, you can plan a trip and join...

Japan ThingsAsian

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A Chop Heard Round the World: Mishima

* * * * * Review of Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn , Vintage Books, 1990. * * * * * On Novemb...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

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There is a lovely woman at my school who in her free time and at her own expense displays an Ikeb...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

If you get a chance to visit Tokyo, why not take in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography....

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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I love visiting second hand stores and flea markets. It's an opportunity to examine what people h...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

Fish brokers checking frozen tunas before their auction at the world's largest fish market at Tsukiji in Tokyo.

Japan's famous tuna auction now off-limits to tourists

* * * TOKYO, May 9, 2005 - The world's biggest fish market, Tsukiji in the heart of Tokyo, on Mon...

Japan AFP

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The Ginger Tree: A review of the screenplay

I love reading screenplays and was very pleased to pick up a copy of the screenplay 'The Ginger T...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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The Japanese moon

While living in Komagane, I had wonderful views of the moon and enjoyed its beauty. On my evening...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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Blood, Sweat, and Tea

Review of Yasunari Kawabata's Beauty and Sadness.

Japan Kenneth Champeon

A la recherche du temps poetique et romantique (et perdu)

* * * * * Lady Murasaki. The Tale of Genji , trans. Arthur Waley. * * * * * Quick - no peeking. W...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

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Japanese Marital Arts

A rather threadbare couplet by Sir Walter Scott asks us to compare the product of a busy liar wit...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

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The Sakura had come into bloom in the early weeks of April and their blossoms brought beauty and ...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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Japanese Ghosts

I haven't seen them but I have definitely heard them. After moving into my unit, several months l...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

My visit to the Yasukuni Shrine

His private visits to the Yasukuni shrine provokes the ire of many Asian countries. Why does Prim...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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One Sunday morning, as I was walking pass the many rice fields in my neighbourhood on my way to 7...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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I spent another lovely afternoon with my charming friend taking in the sights of Ueno. This time ...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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