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From the Editors Read all about ... the new fad. |
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A Kerama Kind of Day A generous glimpse at a Japan you only thought you knew. |
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IT + AC/DC = TNT! At home in Hyogo with Japan's hardest rocking IT whiz. |
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Behold the Gray Panthers Japan's "new" seniors drive consumption. Here's how and why. |
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Japan's Coffee Kings and the Starbucks Effect How domestic roaster Doutor basks in Starbucks' success. |
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Touring Sakhalin's Japanese Past Oil and a shared history bring Japanese tourists to Russia's Siberian isle. |
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The Pulse 2 Technology And Finance News. |
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The Pulse 1 The Word on the Street from the Heart of Tokyo.
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To the Editor The Editor's page |
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Contributors The Editor's page |
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Features |
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And Justice for All... Nick Baker sits in a Japanese prison. He was charged with smuggling drugs into the country -- a charge he vehemently denies. Now his mother is speaking out, collecting signatures and trying to raise money. Will Nick ever go home? |
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Heavy Weather A visit to the world's No. 1 supercomputer, in Yokohama. The Earth Simulator studies the planet for clues about the ways of weather and the potential for enormous natural disasters. Writer Tim Hornyak shows us how. |
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Farewell Dear Isle The Cost of Demilitarizing Okinawa. Military Analyst Michael E. Stanley examines the imminent plausibility and economic consequences of a US troop pullout from Okinawa. The question is not if, writes Stanley, but when. |
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News & Info |
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Dating Goes Global Tokyo dating agency Destina straddles the seas to link up the lonely. |
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Are the Expats Back? Is the volume of foreign customers entering Japan is really starting to recover? |
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Helping the Little Guys Survive BB Net B2B Portal Ambitions Showing Results |
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Blowfish |
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Blowfish Blowfish bemoans beheading as a sign of the times. |
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