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U.S. needs Toyota more than Toyota needs U.S.
Kuchikomi › 05:00 AM JST - 21st March
Weep no tears for the world’s No. 1 automaker. Bad as things look for it at the moment, the worst of the crisis is over,…
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Daughter of Aum founder relates misery of life at cult
Kuchikomi › 03:17 AM JST - 15th March
March 20 marks the 15th anniversary of the release of toxic nerve gas on the Tokyo subway by members of the Aum Supreme Truth cult.…
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Growing number of men have no close friends
Kuchikomi › 08:25 AM JST - 9th March
“What if I die and nobody comes to my funeral? What if my wife dies and I’m left all alone in the world?” Such thoughts…
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Fashion boutique salesgirls slave under sordid conditions
Kuchikomi › 05:00 AM JST - 5th March
TOKYO — The scene: the drafty landing of the emergency stairwell in one of Tokyo's vertical fashion boutique malls. A salesgirl on break grimaces as she slips…
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Some wives wish their husbands would hurry up and drop dead.
Kuchikomi › 04:30 AM JST - 26th February
Yoji, 57, was looking forward to retirement. It’s only three years away. For all his adult life, it’s been nothing but work, nothing but the…
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Magazine airs anxieties over China's burgeoning economic clout
Kuchikomi › 10:29 AM JST - 22nd February
During the week of Feb 14, TV news channels repeatedly broadcast scenes of hordes of tourists from mainland China who, on holiday during their country's…
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Japan slow to embrace medical tourism
Kuchikomi › 05:06 AM JST - 16th February
TOKYO — A young Italian man, his head swathed in bandages, emerges from the hospital rehab room, walking with difficulty as well he might -- he’s slowly…
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Once-glamorous Ginza going from Park Avenue to Penny Lane
Kuchikomi › 05:00 PM JST - 10th February
TOKYO — Forget about the latest gloomy GDP data, slumping stock listings and the Tankan Survey. If you want a intelligible indicator of the degree to which…
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The dumbing down of Japanese students
Kuchikomi › 06:00 AM JST - 6th February
TOKYO — “Is it true,” asks Shukan Gendai (Feb 13) in a black banner headline, “that the Japanese have grown stupid?” The magazine proceeds to make its…
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Bosses uptight over newbies' ignorance of phone protocol
Kuchikomi › 03:00 AM JST - 3rd February
TOKYO — "Answer the damn thing!" The 35-year old staff member of an IT company barks in frustration at a newly hired freshman who was blithely ignoring…
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Ginza's hostesses feel the economic pinch
Kuchikomi › 05:29 AM JST - 30th January
“I’ve been in business in Ginza for 40 years and never have I seen things this bad,” says a club “mama” describing life these days…
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The end of a homeless, nameless life on the street
Kuchikomi › 01:11 PM JST - 24th January
One morning in Osaka's Nishinari Ward last December, a man's corpse was found protruding from stacked bags of rubbish at the curb awaiting collection. He…
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Bolstered measures fail to curb determined stalkers
Kuchikomi › 05:00 AM JST - 17th January
TOKYO — It has been seven years since Japan's antistalking law was promulgated. In 2008, a record-high 14,567 incidents were reported to police nationwide. Writing in the…
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Sexless in Japan
Kuchikomi › 03:10 AM JST - 12th January
For 30 years -- roughly the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s -- sex was everything. It was bound to fizzle. Ubiquitous things always do. And fizzle…
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Wrecking a relationship doesn't come cheap
Kuchikomi › 11:51 AM JST - 5th January
A Diet member's wife discovers her husband is conducting an illicit affair. It's not so much that she objects -- politicians' dalliances with geisha or…
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Yoshinoya's dilemma: Whether to lower prices or not
Kuchikomi › 07:00 AM JST - 2nd January
What would you do if you were in Yoshinoya’s place? Yoshinoya, of course, is Yoshinoya Holdings Company, operator of Japan’s largest chain of beef-bowl restaurants.…
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Police inundated with flood of crazy 110 calls
Kuchikomi › 03:00 AM JST - 3rd January
TOKYO — 110 is the number to dial if you’re in real serious trouble and need the police. But what constitutes real serious trouble? “Hello, police? I…
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New book suggests ulterior motive to timing of 1949 executions
Kuchikomi › 05:29 AM JST - 29th December
Just after midnight on Dec 23, 1949 -- 60 years ago this week -- former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other wartime leaders and…
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Will the U.S. Marines charge ashore at Kansai airport?
Kuchikomi › 09:42 AM JST - 22nd December
On Nov 30, Osaka's progressive Gov Toru Hashimoto -- known in local circles as "Naniwa no Kenka-ya" (the bullyboy of Osaka) -- remarked, "To relieve…
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Compulsive Internet gaming addiction on the rise
Kuchikomi › 03:28 PM JST - 17th December
TOKYO — “If I’m not here everyone will die, so if you want to drink with me you’d better come over.” The journalist hearing this from an…
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