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- Japanese Crime
- September 13th, 2010Category: Culture
- Flipping through recent crime reports, the Japanese magazine Spa! noticed a strange thing. A disproportionate number of perpetrators seemed to be in their 30s. So it proved, on closer examination. In the past three months, among 296 crimes serious enough to draw media ... » Continue Reading
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- Off the Beaten Track in Uji
- September 9th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- To Kyoto-ites, Uji generally seems distant and difficult to get to, but it really is just a hop, skip, and jump away. Only eighteen minutes by JR train from Kyoto station, and conveniently sandwiched between the former capital cities Nara and Kyoto, Uji is one of the ol ... » Continue Reading
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- Ocean Sustainability: From Taiji to the World
- September 9th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- The photo depicts a peaceful inlet of coastal water in Taiji, a little known whaling town on the Pacific coast of Japan's Kii Peninsula in Wakayama Prefecture. Taiji is on the tail end of a larger area known as Kumano, which boasts an impressive array of world heritage ... » Continue Reading
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- 2.7 billion yen – the price tag for cool Japan
- September 9th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Late last month, Asahi News reported that the government ministries involved in promoting the image of 'Cool Japan' around the world have requested a budget of 2.7 billion yen (32 million USD) for next year. That's the money used to help promote food, manga, fashion ... » Continue Reading
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- More Western movies being dubbed as Japanese tire of subtitles
- September 7th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- The number of Western movies subtitled in Japanese is rapidly declining as 3D movies become more common and viewers grow more averse to reading text on screen. Instead, many cinemas in Japan are opting to show films dubbed in Japanese. That's the story coming out of ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo Gloss
- September 7th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- You want something. But you don’t know what it is. She is there for you. Swathed in concrete and electric light, sublime and feral, frenetically interconnected in ways neural synapses are jealous of, she can provide anything you can imagine. Prowling the back-alleys and ... » Continue Reading
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- Fun With Touch Rugby – the social scene
- September 3rd, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- There are a number of reasons to join a sports club in Japan. Keeping fit is important, but if you don’t find running much fun, then playing sport is a great alternative and fortunately for foreigners, one that is easy to get involved in. One of the biggest reasons ... » Continue Reading
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- Still BARE and scared of the BEARS in Akita!
- September 2nd, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- If you are new to Malcolm Ernst's cartoons, find out how they are created and how the authors have turned it into a successful business in this earlier post. Hey there, it’s me, Akie. I’m back at another famous mountain onsen in beautiful Akita Prefecture. My slightl ... » Continue Reading
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- The best of Japan’s Good Design Expo
- September 2nd, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- These cool and unusual takes on everyday items come from the Good Design Expo. The event, which ran over the last weekend of August features products in competition for one of the top prizes in industrial design. A series of waterproof camera housings for taking y ... » Continue Reading
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- Money Worship
- August 31st, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- We took a look at his business background previously and now Japan Trends is reporting on a new move by Takafumi Horie, the former CEO of Livedoor who dropped out of Tokyo University and tried to take over one of the biggest media companies in Japan. That move? Into ... » Continue Reading
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- Yurakucho Yakitori Alley, Tokyo
- August 31st, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Chiyoda Ward: home to over 36,000 businesses employing over 888,000 people, at least according to the stats I just found elsewhere on the Internet. I could be wrong, but at least it should give you the gist of this central location in Tokyo. It's the nesting place of ... » Continue Reading
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- Jobs unique to Japan – a business that caters to sexual needs of disabled
- August 27th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- “The disabled too have sexual desire. Well, of course they do, it goes without saying, and yet most care facilities ignore the fact.” One that doesn’t is a Niigata-based organization called White Hands. “It’s very businesslike,” writes investigative journalist Kaori ... » Continue Reading
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