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*Debito Arudou*
The myopic state we're in

*Barry Brophy*
Scales of justice

*Gregory Clark*
EDUCATIONAL REFORM — Lots of debate, little action
JAPAN'S HARD LINE: Never give an inch to China

*J. Sean Curtin*
International marriages in Japan
Living longer, divorcing later: The Japanese silver divorce phenomenon

*Sarah Dale*
Mama-san's babies

*John de Boer*
Japan, the EU and agriculture

*Boyé Lafayette de Mente*
Japan remains safe haven for foreign travelers
Selling sex in a glass! — Japan's pleasure trades
The extraordinary merits of modern-day karate
The Japanese art of losing to win (1965/2005)
The lowdown on the cost of 'doing Japan'
Weather...for better or worse
Why foreign men like Japan (It's the girls!)

*Duco Delgorge*
Plethora of barriers narrows food choices for Japanese
The food we choose to eat: Japan's 'food paranoia' keeps high-quality produce off the menu

*Thomas Dillon*
A train chock full o' nuts
Groping for answers on gropers
Longtime expatriates all play ‘Survivor’
NHK — the way it should be
The high cost of children — don't kid yourself
What not to do in Japan: die
When cultures clash — 'sizing' up the opposition
Who is that masked woman?

*Spencer Fancutt*
Educational reform in Japan or how to 'kill' children — a report

*Noriko Hama*
Social responsibility: the buzz word nobody gets
The importance of questioning fearlessly and answering honestly

*Kiroku Hanai*
A sham anti-smoking program

*Boyd Harnell*
'Secret' dolphin slaughter defies protests

*Toby Harward*
When in Rome, do as Romans do?

*Stephen Hesse*
ALEX KERR'S VIEW — Japan: A land gone to the dogs?

*Sven Holm*
The harsh reality of high school clubs

*Phillip Howe*
Speaking a different language

*Mindy Kotler*
Our beef with Japan

*Chyi Lee*
Seiza — the traditional Japanese sitting posture

*Jean-Pierre Lehmann*
English-language deficit handicaps Japan
'Inbred' universities dragging Japan down
Intellectual alienation spawns hazy policy

*Matthew MacLachlan*
All Change in Japan

*Mark Magnier*
Home-buyers in Japan up against a stacked deck

*David McNeill*
Hospital death exposes 'tip of malpractice iceberg'
McEnglish for the masses

*Sherry Nakanishi*
Having a baby in Shimane

*Lance Olsen*
Organized crime and the forest

*Peter Osborne*
Japanese system stifles foreign scientific talent

*Sheila A. Smith & Brad Glosserman*
Open debate under threat in Japan

*Bill Stonehill*
Archaeology and racism
Classified ads? Forget about them
Crime and the U.S. servicemen in Okinawa
Kidnapped / Of separations & kidnappings
Law in Japan
Like Japanese food? Try a spaghetti sandwich
Loss of the kimono a tragedy
Mountains and deserts
Stranger in a Japanese land
The cold and the kotatsu
The iron 'Silk Road'
Tropical Tokyo and the green clams
Two-wheeler paradise
Who's Alberto Fujimori and what's he doing sleeping on my couch?

*Doug Struck & Sachiko Sakamaki*
Foreigners find divorce means sayonara to kids

*Ronald E. Yates*
Foreigners in Japan say openness all talk
In Japan, fast food is fast becoming a health hazard
In one remote corner of Japan, Emperor still considered a god
Japan's rebels rare, but hard-core
Japan's 'returnees' face rejection, find that coming home isn't easy
Japan's Takarazuka Theater makes women, and men, of talented girls
Job-hopping losing dishonor in Japan
Monks fight 'progress' in old city
Noisiest nation in the world?
Tokyoites rush to 'commuting hell'

*Editor: David Appleyard*
BBC Japan comes and goes on 'wrong' first-choice satellite
Conglomerate 'X'
It's either English or stay in the dark
Japan through English Windows
Lafcadio Hearn, rolling stone who gathered moss in Japan