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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

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

Books on Japan

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 'Justice' Japanese style

Law Schools come
under friendly fire

"'Why I Support Executions"
 - Interview with Justice Minister
Kunio Hatoyama

Why Japan still has
 the death penalty

Peaceful coexistence with
organized crime under strain

"You can commit a perfect
murder in Japan because
the body is not likely
to be examined"

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How the clock runs out
on justice in Japan

Japan has not ratified the 'Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects
of International Child Abduction'

Japan's comparatively
lenient laws governing
sexual offences against minors

Mercury-tainted dolphin meat
okayed for school lunches

Media intimidation in Japan:
A close encounter with
hard Japanese nationalism

Most tightfisted welfare
in the developed world?