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Ralph Jennings
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JAPAN
Dec 17, 2003
Dalian dangles dalliances on sly to expats
Liu Feifei takes off her sweaters, padded walking shoes and other winter clothes long before bedtime every night in northeastern China's Dalian, a city known for subzero temperatures. She replaces them with open-toed shoes and a one-piece black dress with a wide semicircular cutout between her shoulder blades.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2003
Dalian razing homes Japan built during 1905-1945 occupation
Dalian officials, aiming to make way for safer and more comfortable apartments, are demolishing hundreds of homes built by the Japanese during their 40-year occupation of this northeastern coastal city. The demolition of two-story European-style villas in the hilly 1-sq.-km Nanshan District is part of a citywide housing redevelopment project that is chiseling away at a unique 100-year-old heritage but is also providing more heating and more space for residents at a fair price.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2003
Youngsters from Japan, China seek common ground on war
Describing the recent racial upset in Xian as a chance event, several Japanese and Chinese students in Beijing say they try to get along despite major gaps in their understanding of World War II, which textbooks and media portray differently on the two sides of the East China Sea. Japanese students, about 14,500 of whom are studying language and culture at Chinese colleges, grow up learning that 1937-1945 as a "war in" or an "entry into" China that is covered in three pages of a textbook, although some texts suggest Japan made a mistake.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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