Japanese citizens in Kansai's commercial capital were asked whether they plan to cast a ballot in the Oct. 22 Lower House poll — and why (or why not).
"I'd like to send a pair of overalls overseas. Do I need a special kind of package?"
"I love eating corn on the cob at the end of summer, but it's so hard to eat now that ...
A letter regarding Amy Chavez's Japan Lite column "Blame for 'bad tourists' to Japan lies with the advice they never receive."
The "return" on your investment in a home in Japan is best measured in terms of the pleasure it will yield and the doorway to the intimacies of community and the Japanese mind it will lure you into.
Considering constitutional issues and the risk of creating 'martyrs,' the current law strikes the right balance.
When houses are demolished, there is a very bad habit here of cutting down all the trees on the plot, leaving the ground cleared and empty for new construction.
"There's only two people in the kitchen but they have made all this food for the buffet."
Without a societal model that makes family life appear important and attractive, perhaps it's no wonder that many Japanese people have stopped choosing it.
People on both sides of the Pacific must take a stand as a 20th-century scourge again infects political discourse.
Americans in Tokyo were asked if their vice president might soon be forced to step up and take the helm, as Gerald Ford did in 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned.
