Archive for March 2009

Japan's Communists on Piracy in Somalia

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Japan has agreed to send navy ships to the coast of Somalia to help combat pirates who are attacking cargo ships. This is good. Japan need...

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North Korea to Launch Rocket Over Japan

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Here's one important consequence of the constant political instability of Japan - other nations stop taking you seriously. Case in poin...

Is Japan Closed Again?

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11:47:00 AM

After 150 years, is Japan closed for a second time? The fundamental tension in Japanese culture has always been between isolation on one ...

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Complaining Foreigners in Japan

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I just ran across a great blog entry on complaining foreigners in Japan . Many of you who live (or have lived in) Japan have met just such p...

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Japan Suicide Rate at Crisis Levels

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The world has a basket full of problems right now; yet when 30,000 people take their own lives each year - as they do in Japan - you have t...

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Japanese Business Culture and the Applogy

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We’ve written about the Japanese apology culture in the past, and a recent article by Tomoko Otake in Japan Times Online beautifully chron...

Travel to Japan Tips

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If you plan to travel to Japan , here are a few tips to help your Japanese travel experience; the tips are highly personal and particular t...

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Japanese National Identity

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Japan exists in a geo-political bubble . Part of this is the reality of its geography – an island nation – and part of this is a result of ...

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Japanese and Christian?

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Is it possible to be Japanese and Christian ? Of course the answer is yes, but statistics show that only around 1% of the Japanese are Chr...

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'Haafu' and Japanese Culture

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If you ever been to Los Angeles or Vancouver, you'd have a hard time deciding who is an American or a Canadian and who isn’t. In Japan i...

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