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Debito Arudou Barry Brophy Amy Chavez Gregory Clark
J. Sean Curtin Sarah Dale John de Boer Boyé L. De Mente
Duco Delgorge Thomas Dillon Spencer Fancutt Brad Glosserman
John Haffner Noriko Hama Kiroku Hanai Boyd Harnell
Toby Harward Stephen Hesse Juliet Hindell Sven Holm
Phillip Howe Mindy Kotler Chyi Lee Jean-Pierre Lehmann
Matthew MacLachlan Mark Magnier David McNeill Sherry Nakanishi
Lance Olsen Peter Osborne Renata Piazza Sachiko Sakamaki
Sheila A. Smith Devin Stewart Bill Stonehill Doug Struck
Masaru Tamamoto Ronald E. Yates Editor: David Appleyard  
Debito Arudou
IC you: bugging the alien  

The myopic state we're in  

Barry Brophy

Could fear derail bold tourism bid?

Scales of justice

Amy Chavez 
Don't let bad bicycle days run you down

Gregory Clark 
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 

'Code words' provide shortcut to understanding foreign cultures  

Japan remains safe haven for foreign travelers  

Japanese scientists make automated translation breakthrough  

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

Getting back on the horse  

Groping for answers on gropers  

Longtime expatriates all play ‘Survivor’

My views of Japan after a trip home

NHK — the way it should be

       Remembering the ghost of a Christmas past  

       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

John Haffner

Immigration as a source of renewal in Japan

Japan in a post-American world  

Noriko Hama

Aso's gift-tax cut for rich puts wealth gap issue on back burner

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?

Juliet Hindell

The meaning of Christmas

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

1,500 fed-up Kyushu citizens sue to evict yakuza HQ

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

Renata Piazza 

Summer grass (A "gaijin" among volunteers)

Sheila A. Smith & Brad Glosserman 

Open debate under threat in Japan

Devin Stewart

Is Japan giving up?  

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

Masaru Tamamoto

Japan's crisis of the mind

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 

Another prescribed long holiday — more need for a real one!

BBC Japan should be given another chance

Conglomerate 'X'
It's either English or stay in the dark
Japan through English Windows
Junior high school English — 3 years to read 20 pages

Lafcadio Hearn, rolling stone who gathered moss in Japan

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