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Stephanie Mccrummen
For Stephanie Mccrummen's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2013
Mental health courts seek to treat, rather than jail
The charge was stealing a tow truck. The defendant was a baby-faced 27-year-old in shorts and a Chicago Bulls jersey. His hair was slightly matted, wrists cuffed in front, hands clutching a brown paper bag, demeanor slackened by anti-psychotic medications.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 26, 2013
A mother helps son in his struggle with schizophrenia
The mother drives her son everywhere because he is not well enough to drive. He sits next to her, and at the red lights she looks over and studies him: how quiet he is, how stiffly he sits, hands in his lap, fingers fidgeting slightly, a tic that occasionally blooms into a full fluttering motion he makes with his hand, as if clearing invisible webs from his face. He is 19 years old, 183 cm tall, 113 kg. His eyes are more steady than bright at this particular moment; his mouth is not set in a smile or a frown but some line in between.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 25, 2013
North Dakota activist goes against the grain of her state's gun culture
One recent afternoon, Susan Beehler, who may be the only gun-control advocate in all of North Dakota, walked into VFW Post 762, a dimly lit, wood-paneled bar in downtown Fargo.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 27, 2012
What role will 'walking NGO' Clinton choose next?
On a recent Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walked with her husband onto a stage at the New York Sheraton to cheers and whoops and a standing ovation that only got louder as she tried to quiet things down.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on