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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: June 2006
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. June 13, 2006. Wrapped up in controversy over plastic. A quick story on Japan's obsession with wrapping. June 12, 2006. TOKYO — Buy lunch and a magazine at any Japanese convenience store, and you're likely to get your drink in one plastic bag, hot lunch box in another, and your magazine in yet a third. Facing criticism from environmentalists, Japan is now trying to reduce plastic use with a law revision that lets the government issue warnings...
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: BBC interview
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. January 31, 2007. I was recently interviewed by the BBC travel program, Holiday. About life in Tokyo. In the broadcast, presenter and interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Tries sushi at Tsukiji fish market, sits in on a kendo class, visits Akihabara electronics town, and concludes that Westerners no longer find Tokyo "difficult to translate" because they've become a lot more literate in the Japanese lifestyle. BBC Holiday Web site.
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: Learning to say "I love you"
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. February 3, 2007. Learning to say "I love you". Here's a story I did on Japanese husbands desperate to rekindle their marriages as retirement dawns:. Feb 1, 2007. By Hiroko Tabuchi, AP. Mitsutoshi Fukatsu has been with his wife for three decades, but their lives have grown apart: as a busy stationmaster, he returned to their home in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, only to eat, bathe and sleep. AP photo by Shizuo Kambayashi. I work as a reporter ...
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: May 2007
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. May 30, 2007. Poor youths sleep in Japan's Net cafes. I spent several late nights in the rundown Tokyo suburb of Kamata to research this story, which tries to capture a new form of poverty in Japan. May 29, 2007. TOKYO (AP) It's almost midnight as Ryo settles into a reclining chair for the night, a can of tea and a pack of cigarettes at his side, a construction job awaiting him in the morning. The phenomenon raises many issues in terms of hea...
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: Poor youths sleep in Japan's Net cafes
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. May 30, 2007. Poor youths sleep in Japan's Net cafes. I spent several late nights in the rundown Tokyo suburb of Kamata to research this story, which tries to capture a new form of poverty in Japan. May 29, 2007. TOKYO (AP) It's almost midnight as Ryo settles into a reclining chair for the night, a can of tea and a pack of cigarettes at his side, a construction job awaiting him in the morning. The phenomenon raises many issues in terms of hea...
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: December 2005
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. December 30, 2005. Stories: Pregnancy Diary by Yoko Ogawa. A brilliant and disturbing short story on pregnancy from Tokyo-based author Yoko Ogawa, "Pregnancy Diary," appeared in the Dec. 26, 2005 edition of The New Yorker. Original story in The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005. Links to this post. Labels: poetry and prose. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Stories: Pregnancy Diary by Yoko Ogawa. The New York Times.
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: Wrapped up in controversy over plastic
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. June 13, 2006. Wrapped up in controversy over plastic. A quick story on Japan's obsession with wrapping. June 12, 2006. TOKYO — Buy lunch and a magazine at any Japanese convenience store, and you're likely to get your drink in one plastic bag, hot lunch box in another, and your magazine in yet a third. Facing criticism from environmentalists, Japan is now trying to reduce plastic use with a law revision that lets the government issue warnings...
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: Fitness, Tokyo style: Oxygen pod, detox foot bath and vibration machine
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. January 27, 2007. Fitness, Tokyo style: Oxygen pod, detox foot bath and vibration machine. To get some fresh oxygen in Tokyo, or rid yourself of toxins, or lose some of that holiday flab, you could hop on a train to the countryside, go on a macrobiotic diet, or simply get some exercise. Or, you can go to Oxygen Refreshing Salon O2 Paradise. In Shimbashi to lie in an oxygen pod, get a detox foot spa, or ride a fat-burning vibration machine.
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: Stories: Pregnancy Diary by Yoko Ogawa
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. December 30, 2005. Stories: Pregnancy Diary by Yoko Ogawa. A brilliant and disturbing short story on pregnancy from Tokyo-based author Yoko Ogawa, "Pregnancy Diary," appeared in the Dec. 26, 2005 edition of The New Yorker. Original story in The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005. Labels: poetry and prose. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stories: Pregnancy Diary by Yoko Ogawa. The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal.
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Still Life >> Fast Moving >>: Funny old man: A night out at rakugo
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Still Life Fast Moving. A reporter's blog about life in Tokyo. January 28, 2007. Funny old man: A night out at rakugo. The Parco theater is an unlikely setting for a centuries-old entertainment form: it sits atop a mall at the center of hip, ultra-modern Shibuya, minutes away from the busy crossing of "Lost in Translation" fame. Saturday's show kicked off to a tune on traditional drums and flute, with a single zabuton. The audience is an important rakugo element, too, and Shinosuke slipped back and forth...