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Something about Japan: October 2009
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Thursday, October 15, 2009. Vitamin cafes: Japan's latest health injection. In trendy neighborhoods of Tokyo customers are lining up for vitamin injections that promise to improve health and beauty. Http:/ edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/29/vitamin.injections.cafes/#cnnSTCText. Http:/ edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/29/vitamin.injections.cafes/#cnnSTCVideo. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Vitamin cafes: Japans latest health injection. ONGs on the way.
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Something about Japan: August 2008
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Sunday, August 31, 2008. Japan's working poor scratch living on society's margins. August 30, 2008. Hard times have forced a new underclass to move into three-square-metre rooms – with internet access, writes Justin Norrie in Tokyo. Hidefumi Ito smiles widely when he recalls the sprawling five-bedroom house he built for his family in Hakodate, in the north of Japan. For 1500 yen a day, the temporary shift worker - currently employed to lift and sort parcels for a ...
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Something about Japan: December 2007
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Saturday, December 08, 2007. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What condition my condition is in. View my complete profile. Memoirs of a missionary mom. Ostergeschenk Royale – Danke http:/ ow.l. ONGs on the way. Nice to Have Some Help. Skills to pay the bills. Cherry Blossoms of Hirosaki. Picture postcards from japan. Sarah serving in japan.
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Something about Japan: October 2008
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Wednesday, October 15, 2008. What Haruki Murakami talks about when he talks about writing. Popular Japanese author is awarded the first Berkeley Japan Prize during campus visit. By Wendy Edelstein, Public Affairs, 15 October 2008. Among those attending the event were the consul general of Japan in San Francisco, Yasumasa Nagamine; Peter Zhou, head of the campus’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library; Jay Rubin, a professor of Japanese humanities at Harvard,...In acceptin...
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Something about Japan: February 2009
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Friday, February 27, 2009. When Consumers Cut Back: An Object Lesson From Japan. February 22, 2009. The New York Times. TOKYO — As recession-wary Americans adapt to a new frugality, Japan offers a peek at how thrift can take lasting hold of a consumer society, to disastrous effect. The Takigasaki family in the Tokyo suburb of Nakano goes further to save a yen or two. Although the family has a comfortable nest egg, Hiroko Takigasaki carefully rations her vegeta...
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Seeing is believing but not understanding | B O A T
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This is the online dock of THE BOAT, an art project by Judith Huang. Seeing is believing but not understanding. It’s been nine years since September 11th, 2001. I have never seen the World Trade Center. By the time I got to America, they were gone. I’m leaving New York today, and I don’t know when’s the next time I’ll be back. But I wrote this piece last summer about Ground Zero, and thought it would be appropriate to post it today. I ask you, how many buildings? How many buildings was in Ground Zero?
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Something about Japan: May 2009
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Monday, May 18, 2009. In Japan, Fast Fashion Rules in Slow Times. Monday, 18 May 2009. Granted, you don't normally associate the word cheap with Japan. But cheap land, cheap chic; something's going on. Http:/ www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1895240,00.html. Links to this post. Saturday, May 02, 2009. Joblessness Spurs Shift in Japan's Views on Poverty. The Wall Street Journal. John Murphy/The Wall Street Journal. That system is foundering amid the global sl...
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Something about Japan: October 2007
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Saturday, October 27, 2007. Links to this post. Friday, October 05, 2007. Curry Rice (カレー ライス). Is one of the most popular dishes in Japan. Preparation is quite easy. All you need is rice, curry sauce, vegetables and meat. The basic vegetables are onions, carrots, and potatoes. For the meat, pork, beef and chicken are the most popular, in order of decreasing popularity. For more info, see wikipedia. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). ONGs on the way.
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Something about Japan: July 2009
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Monday, July 20, 2009. Towns face extinction as young people desert roots and head for cities. By Justin McCurry in Kiyosato, Hokkaido. Monday 20 July 2009. The world's population may be growing fast and the number of pensioners increasing faster than ever. But the irony of the greying population is not that the world is filling up with people, but rather that huge belts of it are becoming depopulated. Japan's low birthrate means the future is looking increasingly...
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Something about Japan: August 2007
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Confessions of a japanese impressionist. Tuesday, August 21, 2007. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What condition my condition is in. View my complete profile. Memoirs of a missionary mom. Ostergeschenk Royale – Danke http:/ ow.l. ONGs on the way. Nice to Have Some Help. Skills to pay the bills. Cherry Blossoms of Hirosaki. Picture postcards from japan. Sarah serving in japan.
