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Kuchikomi › May. 22, 2013 - 06:55AM JST
TOKYO — Silence and politics don’t mix. Politics is speech – perpetual, ceaseless speech. Small wonder if the tongue slips, or if politicians blurt out more than…
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Kuchikomi › May. 19, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
TOKYO — Mr A, a 59-year-old employee at a trading firm, resides in Saitama Prefecture. He's the not-so-proud father of three sons, the eldest in his 30s…
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Kuchikomi › May. 14, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
TOKYO — On April 15 during a visit to New York, Tokyo Gov Naoki Inose remarked that as a tentative first step to transforming Tokyo into a…
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Kuchikomi › May. 11, 2013 - 06:56AM JST
TOKYO — “Women,” observed Arthur Schopenhauer, “are by nature enemies.” Who cares what a crusty old 19th-century misogynist philosopher said? Shukan Bunshun (May 2-9), for one. The…
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Kuchikomi › May. 07, 2013 - 06:45AM JST
TOKYO — In Izumi Sano City, the municipality adjacent to Kansai International Airport, the streets since last September have been patrolled by pairs of elderly men wearing…
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Kuchikomi › May. 03, 2013 - 06:50AM JST
TOKYO — “I’m no good, I’m no good.” We all feel that way at times. Bad day at work, bad day at home. Usually we get over…
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Kuchikomi › Apr. 30, 2013 - 10:40PM JST
TOKYO — Shincho 45 (May) assembles a special issue of eight articles under the combined title, "Allergic Japan." Tokyo Medical and Dental University professor emeritus Koichiro Fujita…
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Kuchikomi › Apr. 27, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
TOKYO — On a busy commercial street in Tokyo, Mr A, while about to climb the steps to a train station, staggered as he was struck from…
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Kuchikomi › Apr. 24, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
TOKYO — Are Tokyo University (Todai) students cleverer than other people? They ought to be – it is Asia’s top-ranking university – and yet criticism abounds. It…
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Kuchikomi › Apr. 19, 2013 - 06:55AM JST
TOKYO — "Once, I asked a newly hired employee to make a telephone call to an overseas vendor," an unnamed Rakuten executive relates to Shukan Gendai (April…
