THE KING WHO WANTED TO BE A RICKSHAW BOY

Edward VIII when still "Prince of Wales" dressed as a Japanese rickshaw boy

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EYES WIDE...OPEN

This short, satirical article was first published in Tokyo YY Vol 4 No 88, Sept 1999 " Shibuya Crosssing" by Marco Santaniello (cl...

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VIDEO: WHAT AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM JAPAN

Japan has learned so much from America and is deeply grateful. Now it is time for America to learn something to its advantage from Japan. Th...

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LACK OF "ROMANTIC ABILITY" BLAMED FOR JAPAN'S SLIDING MARRIAGE, BIRTH RATES

From Mainichi Japan : TSU -- The reason for Japanese people's increasing reluctance to get married is that their "romantic ability...

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JAPAN'S FERTILITY RATE (BIRTHS PER WOMAN) 1800 TO 2020

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COLIN LIDDELL ON JAPANESE WORLD RECORDS

Colin Liddell interviewed by Kamasami Kong on the Metropolis Metpod about " Records of the Rising Sun ."

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Sailor Moon Re-Imagined

The Sailor Moon characters re-imagined by Italian artist Angela Vianello .  The delicate girly warriors of the original are toughened ...

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Video: The Ghosts of Tokyo

A ride on the Tokyo tram through a world of shadows and reflections. 

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RECORDS OF THE RISING SUN

The world's most destructive earthquake.   An examination of Japan’s world-beaters yields a “superlative” understanding of the cou...

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FICTION: SPEEDBUMP

Once upon a time, there was a king who wanted to check up on the public spiritedness of his people so he placed a large rock in the mid...

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Land of the Rising Crescent: Muslims in Japan & Japanese Muslims

Hitomi Tsukidate and Imam Yenturk Islam in Japan has an interesting history. Like most things in this country, it didn’t just happen ...

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Poster: Elvis Presley as a Noh Play

"Blue Moon Over Memphis" is a Noh play on the theme of Elvis Presley. Of course, such an act of cultural sacrilege was not pe...

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HERE BE MONSTERS

(CLICK to enlarge) From ESP labs to Pokemon panics to death cults, Japan is a wonderland of the bizarre. In the old days of d...

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The Restless City: How Tokyo’s Sleazier Neighborhoods have Successfully Rebranded Themselves

Godzilla visits one of Tokyo's sleazier neighbourhoods. When the shock waves from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake struck Tok...

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Google Autocomplete: Japanese People

What are Japanese people famous for? Asking up front will only produce polite and evasive answers. If you want the truth you will have t...

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