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FICTION: PHIRIP MALROWE - PRIVATE ENGLISH TEACHER

It was a hot night in the city. I sat in my office on the 9th floor of the "Let's Building" looking out over the neon ...

Imagine a hard-working but shy Japanese guy, having trouble meeting women. He finally sits down to compose a lonely hearts ad. After t...

"MY GAS MY LIFE": Tokyo Gas (TG) has come a long way since Charlie Sheen mouthed that unfortunate slogan with its flatulent conno...

Dennis the Menace, Casper, Richie Rich, Calvin and Hobbes - comics are forever associated in the Western mind with the innocence of...

BASES, BARS, & BRAVE NEW WORLD If Tokyo has a gaijin ghetto, that place is definitely Roppongi, the most cosmopolitan and intern...

Entering Japan has always been synonymous with fingerprinting, especially for those of us who came here several years ago. It is highly ir...

In this age of cheap sentimentality and easy excuses, everything has its apologists, defenders, and even fans. I’ve heard crows and na...

The reaction to the recent sinking of a Japanese fishery training vessel by a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii, and the captain's ...

Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Issey Miyake, Mao Zedong - spot the odd one out. "Easy," you might think, but actually there’s no odd one o...