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Yasmine La Salle
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 12, 2014
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
With subjects ranging from consumerism to female farmers, 'Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty' is a book that's geared toward students.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 5, 2014
The Art of The Wind Rises
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 29, 2014
Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands
This extensive travel book by lecturer and Okinawa expert Robert Walker is billed as "the first comprehensive guide to the entire Ryukyu Island chain." With 25 years experience traveling throughout the region's 150-islands Walker has amassed a huge amount of information — condensed here into 290 pages...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 22, 2014
Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuance of Long-Term Resistance
As the '90s settled in and the new millennium was fast approaching, Japanese society saw an increase in the governmental status of "not yet married" women. The women classified under this category saw themselves as the up-and-coming future for postwar Japan. With an almost five-year increase in the age...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 15, 2014
Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
In her new book, " Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible," award-winning author Suzanne Kamata shows her young audience that invisibility is not always a superpower, and becoming a young adult is not always easy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 15, 2014
I Hear Them Cry
In her debut novel, "I Hear Them Cry," award-winning author Shiho Kishimoto explores how the pattern of violent behavior can be inherited from parent to child and how love and violence are often connected.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 30, 2014
Film provides some food for thought
New documentary 'Drops of Heaven' focuses on Yoshiko Tasumi, the woman whose 'soup of life' made her culinary efforts famous.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 23, 2014
New-year festivities all set to start in Yokohama
From the end of next week, Yokohama's Chinatown begins its spring festival to ring in the Year of the Horse.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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