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Monday, May 21, 2012

BILINGUAL

Save face when taking the expressway

By MARK SCHREIBER

Foreigners in Japan often encounter conversations in which Japanese terms or concepts are expressed in English in ways that, while not necessarily idiomatic, still get the meaning across effectively. One such example would be the Japanese expression 強い (tsuyoi, strong), ...

Features

features

May 20, 2012

WEEK 3

Artist creates Yokohama bodhisattvas

By ERIKO ARITA

May 20, 2012

WEEK 3

The sky's the limit

By BRETT BULL

May 20, 2012

WEEK 3

'Alien' actress at home with a robot

By NOBUKO TANAKA

May 15, 2012

LIFE & STYLE

The women who get go

By DANIEL KRIEGER

May 13, 2012

SUNDAY TIMEOUT

What awaits Okinawa 40 years after reversion?

By JON MITCHELL

Community

community

May 19, 2012

WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

The list of lists

By THOMAS DILLON

May 19, 2012

JAPAN LITE

Reasons I don't buy a nuclear restart

By AMY CHAVEZ

May 15, 2012

WHO'S WHO

Olympus fiasco was 'lost opportunity'

By MAMI MARUKO

May 15, 2012

VIEWS FROM THE STREET

Fujisawa: How has the Fukushima nuclear disaster changed your life?

By CHARLES LEWIS

May 15, 2012

LIFELINES: LABOR PAINS

Supreme Court knocks down discipline of mentally ill employee

By HIFUMI OKUNUKI

May 15, 2012

LIFELINES

Name on deeds shouldn't affect divorce asset split

By MASAKO SUZUKI

Travel and Food

travel and food

May 20, 2012

TRAVEL

Narai's nostalgic delights revisited

By SKYE HOHMANN

May 18, 2012

TOKYO FOOD FILE

Serve yourself at Oslo import Fuglen

By ROBBIE SWINNERTON

May 18, 2012

HOTELS & RESTAURANTS

Hyatt Regency Kyoto cooking classes

May 18, 2012

TOKYO FOOD FILE

Tonki dishes up 73 years of tasty tonkatsu success

By ROBBIE SWINNERTON

May 13, 2012

TRAVEL

Getting away from it all on Aguni

By HILLEL WRIGHT

Environment and Education

environment and education

May 20, 2012

WILD WATCH

The wonder of feathers

By MARK BRAZIL

May 15, 2012

SO, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

Kura

By ALICE GORDENKER

May 14, 2012

BILINGUAL

How living can kill you, and other inconvenient truths

By KAORI SHOJI

May 13, 2012

NATURAL SELECTIONS

Though spooked by new threats, Japanese accept mass killers

By ROWAN HOOPER

Media and Technology

media and technology

May 20, 2012

BIG IN JAPAN

Japan faces a long, hot, nuclear-free summer

By MARK SCHREIBER

May 20, 2012

MEDIA MIX

TV: no longer the drug of the people

By PHILIP BRASOR

May 16, 2012

JAPAN TIMES BLOGROLL

Tokyo Green Space

By MADS BERTHELSEN

May 13, 2012

BIG IN JAPAN

Beware not the loud girls, but the plain ones

By MICHAEL HOFFMAN

May 13, 2012

MEDIA MIX

Road-death stats hide the truth

By PHILIP BRASOR


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