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No matter how long you've been studying the language, no matter how many words you've memorized, it seems you never stop wondering, "How do I…
"Just Enough" is a book of stories and sketches, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the point of view of a contemporary observer.…
Hirotaka Adachi was just 17 years old when he had his first story published. “Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse” was the grisly tale of a…
TOKYO — Anime producer, author and "otaku" expert Toshio Okada hit the big time when he published "Itsumademo Debu to Omouna yo" (Don’t Think You’ll Be Fat…
TOKYO — Despite its reputation as Tokyo’s leading youth-fashion hub, the 109 shopping complex in Shibuya can be a forbidding place for foreigners. Wall-to-wall teenyboppers and floor…
TOKYO — Japanese food and manga must be two of the country’s most successful exports, but they’re not the most obvious of bedfellows. However, an unorthodox cookbook…
TOKYO — A journalist is supposed to observe and report his story, not become part of it. But by the time Jake Adelstein found himself face to…
Noriko Sakai, 38, the singer and actress who goes on trial on Oct 26 for possession of drugs and stimulant use, is the subject of…
TOKYO — A record of the daily lives of Ainu people living in the Tokyo metropolitan area has been published as a photo collection. Around 160 photos…