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Japan Perspectives
A high-school student's workweek
Alex Kerr's view: Japan — a land gone to the dogs?
BBC Japan came and went
on 'wrong' first-choice satellite
Branch of Tokyo Sky-Tree sprouts beer pubs
Can Japan afford all its public holidays?
Classified ads? Forget about them
Crime and U.S. servicemen in Okinawa
Don't let bad bicycle days run you down
Educational reform in Japan... [satire]
English OS PCs once a challenge in Japan
English-Language deficit handicaps Japan
Experiencing other cultures in Japan
Extraordinary merits of modern-day karate
Fascinating story of inns in Japan
Foreigners in Japan say openness all talk
Groping for answers on gropers 
Home buyers in Japan up against a stacked deck
Hospital death exposes 'tip of malpractice iceberg'
In one remote corner of Japan,
Emperor still considered a god
Immigration as a source of renewal in Japan
Importance of questioning fearlessly and answering honestly
In Japan, fast food is fast becoming a health hazard
International marriages in Japan
Japan in a post-American world
Japan's rebels rare, but hard-core
Japan's 'returnees' face rejection,
find that coming home isn't easy
Japanese system stifles foreign scientific talent
Junior high school English: '3 years to read 20 pages'
Lafcadio Hearn, rolling stone who gathered moss in Japan
Like Japanese Food? Try a spaghetti sandwich
Living longer, divorcing later
Longterm expatriates all play 'Survivor'
Organized crime and the forest
Plethora of barriers narrows food choices for Japanese
Remembering the ghost of a Christmas past
Seiza — the traditional Japanese sitting posture
Selling sex in a glass — Japan's pleasure trades
Summer grass — A 'gaijin' among volunteers
Takarazuka Theater makes women,
and men, of talented girls
The return of Japan's castle culture
When cultures clash — 'sizing' up the opposition
When in Rome, do as Romans do?
Why foreign men like Japan (It's the girls!)
East–West Timelines
Centuries A.D.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Scribbles
Articles
Children still need to master handwriting skills
Crafty ambiguity is an artful art
India's special relationship to English
My own little piece of London history
Newfangled genderless job titles engender discord
Preserving 1,500 languages for 10,000 years
Suicidal poets 'leave behind clues in their writing'
Tashi Tsering's escape from Tibet
The long-held perception that right is 'right'
Literary notes
On Andrew Brown's Fishing in Utopia
— Sweden and the Future that Disappeared
On Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
On Shakespeare's Julius Caesar — Why kill Caesar?
On the treatment of evil and sin
in three American literary classics:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne;
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville;
and Daisy Miller by Henry James
On William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Short stories
Two's company, three's a crowd
Poetry
Leaving Amsterdam, spring 1940
Non-English texts
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