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Beyond the Blossoming Fields
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Palin book goes after McCain camp
NEW YORK — Sarah Palin's new memoir describes heart-wrenching anguish about her teen daughter's pregnancy playing out before a national audience. But the 413-page tome doesn't contain a…
The Year of No Money in Tokyo
Any foreigner who’s been in Japan for a while can tell you that there’s a lot of ups and downs to living life out here.…
The Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook
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…
Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan
"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.…
'Zoo' includes whodunits, science fiction and horror
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…
Sayonara, Mr Fatty!
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…
Shibuya 109 English Guidebook
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…
The Manga Cookbook
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…
Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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…
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