Upfront |
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Kansai Airport: A Beautiful Loser
Dominic Al-Badri profiles a favorite Kansai calamity. |
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A More Independent Japan
Yoneyuki Sugita says now is the time for Japan to cut the cord with America. |
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How the Philippines' Rising IT Sector Can Service Japan
The Philippines boast some of the world's finest IT workers -- and they're headed here. |
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Business is Booming -- At Least in Kabukicho
Japan's premier pleasure quarter is always profitable. |
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Hello Kitty Turns 30 and Keeps on Growing
Hello Kitty hits her third decade as a global superstar. |
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It's Bottoms Up -- Way Up -- In Hokkaido
But is Japan really ready for microbrews? |
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Japan's Free Press Faces Punishment
Japan's first privacy law seeks to censor the weeklies. |
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The Pulse 2
Technology and Finance News |
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The Pulse
Young Japanese Men Pay Big Bucks for Vanity |
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Contributors
The Editor's page |
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To the Editor
The Editor's page |
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From the Editor
The Editor's page |
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Features |
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Japan Wants You: All 10 Million of You
This year marks the start of "Visit Japan," a national campaign aimed at doubling Japan's inbound visitors by 2010. But as journalist Lucille Craft reveals in the first of our two-part feature, that may not be so easy. |
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Holy Strollers
Tony McNicol shuttles off to Shikoku to survey one successful sector of the tourism industry -- religious tourism. The island's 88-temple pilgrimage is doing brisk business with both the very old and the very young. |
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Traveling the Convenient Way
The "convenience-store traveler" is privy to some of Japan's best hotel deals. |
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Sexy and Smart: One Sector that Won't be Left Behind
A bad economy means booming business for Japan's pornographers. David McNeill crunches the numbers in his in-depth probe and shows how the meeting of sex and tech results in cutting-edge innovations -- and a cornucopia of sexual services. Plus: profiles of the entrepreneurs (and one striking performer) who make and market what's hot.
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The Ray Kroc of Adult Video
How Ganari Takahashi plans to turn Soft on Demand into the "McDonald's" of adult entertainment. |
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The One-Man Show
Rio Yasuda is what they call a hamedori, or a one-man porn director, one of hundreds that supply the voracious porn industry with material. |
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The Star of the Show
Maria Yumeno, one of Japan's highest-earning adult actresses and probably its most famous (until she retired a few months ago), on sex and Japan |
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People |
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Aeon vs. Trend of Japanese and world retailers
An insider's look at ERP and how it will help the Japanese Retailers fight back |
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Blowfish |
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Food for thought?
Our favorite fulsome fugu takes a look at gluttony, lust and crime. |
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