Classified ads?
Forget about them
by Bill Stonehill

Scales of justice
by Barry Brophy

Mama-san's
babies
by Sarah Dale

English-language
deficit handicaps
Japan
by Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Tropical Tokyo and
the green clams
by Bill Stonehill

Summer grass
(A "gaijin" among volunteers)
 
by Renata Piazza

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

Junior high school English — 3 years to read 20 pages
by David Appleyard

Japan's hard line:
never give an inch
to China
by Gregory Clark

Is Japan giving up?
by Devin Stewart
My views of Japan
after a trip home
by Thomas Dillon
Immigration as a
source of renewal
in Japan
by John Haffner
Another
prescribed long
holiday — more
need for a real one!
by David Appleyard

Remembering
the ghost of a
Christmas past
by Thomas Dillon

IC you: bugging
the alien
by Debito Arudou
Aso's gift-tax cut
for rich puts
wealth gap issue
on back burner
by Noriko Hama
Japan's crisis
of the mind
by Masaru Tamamoto
Japan in a post-American world
by John Haffner
1,500 fed-up
Kyushu citizens
sue to evict
yakuza HQ
by David McNeill
Getting back
on the horse
by Thomas Dillon
'Code words' provide shortcut to understanding foreign cultures
by Boyé L. De Mente
Japanese scientists
make automated translation breakthrough
by Boyé L. De Mente
All change
in Japan
by Matthew MacLachlan

In one remote
corner of Japan,
Emperor still
considered a god

by Ronald E. Yates

Lafcadio Hearn,
rolling stone who
gathered moss
in Japan
by David Appleyard

Who is that
masked woman?
by Thomas Dillon

The myopic state
we're in
by Debito Arudou

Job-hopping losing
dishonor in Japan

by Ronald E. Yates

The food we choose to eat:
Japan's 'food paranoia' keeps
high-quality
produce off
the menu

by Duco Delgorge

The high cost of children — don't kid yourself
by Thomas Dillon

Social responsibility:
the buzz word nobody gets
by Noriko Hama

Japanese system stifles foreign scientific talent
by Peter Osborne

Seiza
— the traditional Japanese sitting posture

by Chyi Lee

NHK — the way
it should be
by Thomas Dillon

The lowdown on the cost of 'doing
Japan'

by Boyé L. De Mente

Japan remains
safe haven for
foreign travelers

by Boyé L. De Mente

Kidnapped /
Of separations
and kidnappings

by Bill Stonehill

Speaking a different language
by Phillip Howe

Loss of the kimono
a tragedy

by Bill Stonehill

The extraordinary
merits of modern-day karate

by Boyé L. De Mente

A train chock
full o' nuts

by Thomas Dillon

'Secret' dolphin
slaughter defies
protests

by Boyd Harnell

Weather ...for
better or worse

by Boyé L. De Mente

Open debate
under threat
in Japan

by Sheila A. Smith
& Brad Glosserman

Hospital death
exposes 'tip of
malpractice
iceberg'

by David McNeill

Having a baby
in Shimane
by Sherry Nakanishi

The meaning
of Christmas
by Juliet Hindell

Groping for
answers on
gropers
by Thomas Dillon

In Japan, fast food is fast becoming a
health hazard
by Ronald E. Yates

When cultures clash — 'sizing' up
the opposition
by Thomas Dillon

The importance
of questioning
fearlessly and
answering
honestly
by Noriko Hama

What not to do
in Japan: die
by Thomas Dillon

The iron 'Silk Road'
by Bill Stonehill

Archaeology
and racism
by Bill Stonehill

Tokyoites rush to
'commuting hell'
by Ronald E. Yates

Japan's rebels
rare, but hard-core
by Ronald E. Yates

Foreigners in
Japan say
openness all talk
by Ronald E. Yates

Japan's
Takarazuka
Theater makes
women, and men,
of talented girls
by Ronald E. Yates

Japan's 'returnees'
face rejection,
find that coming
home isn't easy
by Ronald E. Yates

The Japanese art
of losing to win
(1965/2005)
by Boyé L. De Mente

BBC Japan should be given another chance
by David Appleyard

Two-wheeler
paradise
by Bill Stonehill

A sham
anti-smoking
program
by Kiroku Hanai

Who's Alberto
Fujimori and
what's he doing
sleeping on my
couch?
by Bill Stonehill

Organized crime
and the forest

by Lance Olsen

Monks fight
'progress'
in old city
by Ronald E. Yates

Plethora of barriers narrows food choices for Japanese
by Duco Delgorge

McEnglish for
the masses

by David McNeill

Stranger in a
Japanese land

by Bill Stonehill

Our beef
with Japan

by Mindy Kotler

Living longer, divorcing later:
the Japanese
silver divorce
phenomenon

by J. Sean Curtin

Could fear derail
bold tourism bid?

by Barry Brophy

Selling sex
in a glass!

by Boyé L. De Mente

Crime and the
U.S. servicemen
in Okinawa
by Bill Stonehill

Foreigners find
divorce means
sayonara to kids
by Doug Struck and Sachiko Sakamaki

Why foreign men
like Japan
(It's the girls!)
by Boyé L. De Mente

Mountains
and deserts
by Bill Stonehill

Longtime
expatriates all
play 'Survivor'
by Thomas Dillon

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

Japan, EU and
agriculture
by John de Boer

Intellectual alienation spawns
hazy policy
by Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Alex Kerr's view:
Japan — a land
gone to the dogs?
by Stephen Hesse

International
marriages
in Japan
by J. Sean Curtin

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

The cold and
the kotatsu
by Bill Stonehill

Like Japanese
food? Try a
spaghetti
sandwich
by Bill Stonehill

'Inbred'
universities
dragging Japan
down

by Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Noisiest nation
in the world?
by Ronald E. Yates

The harsh reality
of high school
clubs
by Sven Holm

Law in Japan
by Bill Stonehill

It's either English
or stay in the dark
by David Appleyard

Japan through
English Windows
by David Appleyard

Conglomerate 'X'
by David Appleyard

When in Rome,
do as Romans do?

by Toby Harward