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Why Japan doesn't get the Internet (yet); Neil LaBute's violence is shocking, but not surprising.
Letters to the Editor
July 6, 1999
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Avatar chat, porn and microwave cooking -- if the Net in Japan isn't good for much else, no wonder it's not a hit.
By David Lazarus
June 28, 1999
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Garage sounds revisited: Guitar Wolf roars on the loudest record, ever.
By Alex Pappademas
June 25, 1999
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The Japanese, never known for their frivolity, have grown downright depressed as their decade-long economic troubles proliferate.
By David Lazarus
June 2, 1999
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Tired of teaching English? Try taking your clothes off instead.
By Bob Blanchard
May 28, 1999
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Author Iris Chang reacts to Kashiwashobo's decision to halt publication of her book.
By Laura Miller
May 25, 1999
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Unacceptable emotional violence; black men are not "beasts"; reading Japan wrong.
Letters to the Editor
April 28, 1999
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An expatriate mom in Japan learns that a dewhiskered Hello Kitty rice ball in her child's lunch could forever condemn her as a rotten mother.
By Jane Singer
January 19, 1999
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Wanderlust editor Don George describes the garden at Kyoto's Ryoanji temple, a simple plot of sand, rocks and moss that makes visitors stop -- and see.
By Don George
December 14, 1998
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By Karl Taro Greenfeld
November 10, 1998
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Karl Taro Greenfeld paints an
epic portrait of drug demons and sex junkies in Japan's new demimonde.
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
October 30, 1998
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A little-known gem from the late Japanese filmmaker explores the poignant inner world of a shantytown.
By Charles Taylor
September 16, 1998
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A Yale finance expert predicts the U.S. economy will withstand global convulsions.
By Jonathan Broder
September 2, 1998
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Dave McCombs reports on the Japanese reaction to President Clinton's mea culpa speech.
By Dave McCombs
August 20, 1998
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In Japan, a bar with no alcohol or music, only coffee.
July 24, 1998
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Letter from Tokyo: Dave McCombs reports that Japan's changing fortunes have reached as far as the sex industry, altering the long-standing relationship between commercial sex and the salaryman.
By Dave McCombs
May 8, 1998
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On a honeymoon journey in Japan, an American couple discovers the perfect place to stay: Love hotels.
By Robert Strauss
April 30, 1998
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Simon Winchester visits the heartbreaking Kurile Islands -- ceded to Russia, claimed by Japan and lamented by the lonely soldiers who have to live there.
By Simon Winchester
March 6, 1998
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In her Olympic farewell, Cintra Wilson wallows in weird TV, moons the ski slopes and finds the big heart of Japan
By Cintra Wilson
February 24, 1998
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Cintra Wilson on the Kwan-Lipinski showdown.
By Cintra Wilson
February 23, 1998
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A British investigative reporter who has
written about the International Olympic Committee shows how the head of the
IOC tries to prove, as he once said, that the IOC is more powerful than the
Catholic Church.
By Andrew Jennings
February 19, 1998
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In Nagano, locals are grumbling about the license given Olympics sponsors to advertise all over town.
By Koya Ide
February 17, 1998
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In the fourth of his dispatches from the Winter Olympics in Nagano,
Japan, Gary Kamiya muses on Japanese English, the quest for tosto and
hamburgers done in retro
By Gary Kamiya
February 12, 1998
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What food will foreign athletes and spectators in Nagano get if they ask for the local specialty? Buckwheat noodles!
By Koji Yoshii
February 5, 1998
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Gary Kamiya reports live -- barely -- from the XVIII Winter
Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan
By Gary Kamiya
January 30, 1998
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