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JAPANESE

COMMENTARY / Japan
May 18, 2015
Disillusionment with Japan
Inevitably observers of Japan are disappointed and disillusioned when they see that Japanese leaders in politics and business are failing to confront the demographic threat and promote the changes needed to achieve a positive future for Japan.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 16, 2015
JCP gains ground, but not column inches
Years ago a Japanese acquaintance applied for a green card when her American husband decided to move back to the United States. Someone told her she should not say she once voted for the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) during her interview, otherwise U.S. Immigration would reject it. As far as I know,...
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CULTURE / Art
May 12, 2015
A prosaic picture of Japan's rural decline
With all the current problems facing Japan's rural communities, "Salt of the Earth" at the Tokyo Gallery is a visual contribution to an ongoing debate on their value and survival. The rhetoric of the show espouses the humble virtues of life in Amami, a group of islands between Kagoshima and Okinawa,...
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CULTURE / Art
May 12, 2015
'Masterpieces from the Sanso Collection'
May 19-June 28
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CULTURE / Art
May 12, 2015
'Ikko Narahara: Japanesque Zen'
May 11-July 4
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
May 11, 2015
Polish up your honorific verbs and show some respect
Today, we will introduce the proper uses of honorific expression, one of the forms of keigo.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
May 11, 2015
France bans super-skinny models
France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on April 3.
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CULTURE / Art
May 5, 2015
Korin: the late bloomer with innovative in style
One of the joys of visiting Tokyo's Nezu Museum in early May, is to catch the annual showing of one of the museum's most famous works, Ogata Korin's "Irises," before stepping outside to appreciate the real irises blooming in its garden.
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CULTURE / Art
May 5, 2015
'Sony Design: Making Modern'
April 29-June 14
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 30, 2015
Investors seek out risky U.S. loans in throwback to pre-crisis days
Japanese investors are plowing back into the same types of risky U.S. corporate-loan investments that caused them losses during the 2008 financial crisis.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2015
Japan's economy needs a dose of shock therapy
A little more monetary shock-and-awe by the Bank of Japan could stem Japan's 'deflationary mindset.'
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JAPAN / History
Apr 24, 2015
Korean survivor recounts path from 14-year-old girl to wartime sex slave
A Korean woman who says she was forced to become a “comfort woman” during the war describes how people dressed as Japanese soldiers persuaded her to do so.
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CULTURE / Film
Apr 22, 2015
Surviving the night of the long tentacular knives in 'Parasyte: Part 2'
When we left Shinichi (Shota Sometani) and his inseparable parasite companion Migi at the end of Takashi Yamazaki's 2014 sci-fi/horror hit "Kiseiju" ("Parasyte: Part 1"), the space-alien organisms who had found human hosts in the city of Higashi Fukuyama were not only slaughtering humans for food —...
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 21, 2015
Diversity saved the Kano school
Kyoto National Museum's "Kano Painters of the Momoyama Period: Eitoku's Legacy" is the follow up exhibition to the 2007 "Kano Eitoku, Momoyama Painter Extraordinaire" and focuses on Eitoku's successors who produced work during the period 1596-1615.

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?