Tuesday February 14, 2012

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Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'

Feb. 12, 2012 - 06:31AM JST ( 25 )

"All right, please tell me something about your strong points. You have 60 seconds." "Hai." [Clears throat] "My strong point is the ability to act as a leader. I served as sub-leader of our school's tennis club. Through planning weekend retreats and so on, I learned… Read

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Pachinko addiction a growing problem for Japanese women

Kuchikomi Feb. 08, 2012 - 06:00AM JST ( 54 Comments )

An astonishing fact: 1.6% of all Japanese women are compulsive gamblers, according to health ministry statistics for 2009. That’s 750,000 people. No doubt the affliction takes various forms, but Shukan Josei (Feb 14) focuses on… Read

China outperforming Japan in campus romance

Kuchikomi Feb. 04, 2012 - 06:25AM JST ( 87 Comments )

Japan is no longer what it used to be – namely the world’s second largest economy – thanks to China, which overtook it in 2010. Elsewhere too, China finds itself triumphant. Where else? On campus.… Read

Calling the plays on the new anti-gang law

Kuchikomi Jan. 31, 2012 - 05:00AM JST ( 21 Comments )

For its Jan 28 cover story, the weekly business magazine Shukan Toyo Keizai ran a 34-page section on the current status of organized crime, with articles and sidebars running the gamut of everything from corporations'… Read

Japan losing its manufacturing edge to South Korea

Kuchikomi Jan. 27, 2012 - 06:32AM JST ( 204 Comments )

"I got the feeling that Korea's Hyundai is clearly surging past Japanese models," automotive journalist Toshifumi Watanabe tells Shukan Bunshun (Jan 26), after returning home from the Detroit Motor Show. "I was particularly struck by… Read

'Radiation divorce' enters Japanese vernacular

Kuchikomi Jan. 23, 2012 - 11:30PM JST ( 73 Comments )

“Radiation divorce.” A year ago that would have been gibberish. Now it’s all too meaningful. You probably get the idea, even if you’ve never heard the expression. In brief, husband and wife disagree so irreconcilably… Read

Prolonged labor pangs preceding new station on Tokyo's Yamanote line

Kuchikomi Jan. 21, 2012 - 11:13PM JST ( 8 Comments )

"A new station? That would be good news," says a 50-ish housewife living in Tokyo's Minato Ward. "Right now, it takes me about 20 minutes to walk from Tamachi to Shinagawa. I heard more elite… Read

'Kizuna' takes many forms in post-disaster Japan, including marriage and infidelity

Kuchikomi Jan. 17, 2012 - 11:00PM JST ( 75 Comments )

“Kizuna.” To understand Japan's post-quake/tsunami/meltdown, you need that word in your vocabulary. It’s probably there already because it’s become ubiquitous. It means human ties, especially the kind nurtured by Japanese society and culture. Kizuna was… Read

Big Brother's got eyes everywhere

Kuchikomi Jan. 14, 2012 - 06:47AM JST ( 28 Comments )

Before fugitive Aum Supreme Truth cultist Makoto Hirata, 46, turned himself in at the Marunouchi police station in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on New Year's Eve, it was determined he had passed through JR Shinagawa station.… Read

Raising your chances of surviving the next big one

Kuchikomi Jan. 11, 2012 - 05:49AM JST ( 17 Comments )

The probability of your being atop the summit of Mt Fuji at the moment the next major temblor strikes the Japanese archipelago is probably slim to none. But Shukan Gendai (Jan 21) isn't leaving anything… Read

Post-tsunami weddings bring some cheer

Kuchikomi Jan. 05, 2012 - 06:41AM JST ( 5 Comments )

March 12 was to have been their wedding day. On the morning of March 11, Tsukasa and Kumiko Onodera, 29 and 30 respectively, registered their marriage at their local town hall in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture.… Read

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JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'

Pachinko addiction a growing problem for Japanese women

China outperforming Japan in campus romance

Calling the plays on the new anti-gang law

Japan losing its manufacturing edge to South Korea

'Radiation divorce' enters Japanese vernacular

Prolonged labor pangs preceding new station on Tokyo's Yamanote line

'Kizuna' takes many forms in post-disaster Japan, including marriage and infidelity

Big Brother's got eyes everywhere

Raising your chances of surviving the next big one

Post-tsunami weddings bring some cheer

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