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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

Oct 31, 2009

Putting a little bug in your ear

By Thomas Dillon

Sometimes beauty resides not to the eye of the beholder. Instead, it lives in the ear of the listener.

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COMMUNITY

Oct 31, 2009

Dressage instructor knows how to get best out of horses, riders

By Barbara Bayer

In the rarefied atmosphere of Japan's equestrian competitive world, Gool Wadia is a highly respected name. She is the "eye and mouth" on the ground, the person behind, specifically, some of Japan's best dressage riders as they endeavor to improve their riding, their horses and raise their marks in competition....

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE

Oct 31, 2009

For your amusement — Ferris wheels everywhere, but why not?

By Amy Chavez

Japan can be a confusing place for tourists, so I would like to take this opportunity to explain some things about Japan that no one has ever attempted to explain before, such as "Why are there so many Ferris wheels in Japan?"

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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST

Oct 27, 2009

Immigration showing signs of ninjo

By Chris Burgess

Last month, I was asked to take part in a public panel discussion on the recently released Harrison Ford blockbuster "Crossing Over." In the film, Ford plays an L.A. Immigration and Customs officer with a conscience, increasingly disturbed by the human consequences of his job.

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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET

Oct 27, 2009

Tokyoites foot bill for Metro finger-wagging

By Matthew Chozick

If you scoot around Japan's capital on Tokyo Metro, chances are you can call to your mind's eye Bunpei Yorifuji's manner posters. You've probably snickered at Yorifuji's innuendo-laden slogan "Please do it at home" and, like me, look forward to seeing his silly etiquette lessons debut each month in the...

COMMUNITY

Oct 24, 2009

Seasonal rules permeate daily life in Japan

By Kris Kosaka

I grew up in Florida, and our year divides itself into seasons of bearable and unbearable. Even the most creative mind could hardly find illumination in topics around the weather, as there are only so many ways to say "the sun is shining with ferocious force today" or "the sweat is running into my eyeballs...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

Oct 24, 2009

A little less east of Eden

By Thomas Dillon

John Steinbeck's 1952 novel, "East of Eden," is a tale of two families and one city — Salinas, Calif. — with the plot hinging on the sibling rivalry of a pair of brothers. The movie came along in 1955, winning James Dean a posthumous Academy Award nomination in the role of more convoluted brother....

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE

Oct 24, 2009

Concretology — getting lost inside a mammoth structure

By Amy Chavez

Japan is the home of concretology. This form of architecture started in the 1960s as a way to use molds, iron bars and rendering to form structures that make people say, "Whoa!"

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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY

Oct 22, 2009

Tokyo Girls Collection producer Ayako Nagaya

By Judit Kawaguchi

Ayako Nagaya, 37, is the president of F1 Media Inc. and the chief producer of Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC), a semiannual entertainment extravaganza showcasing Japanese street fashion, music and a myriad of products, from instant noodles to cars. Staged in Tokyo's Yoyogi Stadium, this one-day fashion...

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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST

Oct 20, 2009

Signing Hague treaty no cure-all for parental abduction scourge

By Colin P.A. Jones

The recent arrest of Christopher Savoie for attempting to "kidnap" his two children in Fukuoka has brought much-needed international media attention to one of Japan's dirty secrets — its status as the developed world's leading destination for international parental child abduction.

COMMUNITY

Oct 20, 2009

Foreign parents face travel curbs?

By Colin P.A. Jones

I think it is safe to say that the countdown has begun — the countdown to it becoming more difficult for you to leave Japan with your children. Difficult, that is, if you are non-Japanese and traveling without their other parent (or his or her written consent).

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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET

Oct 20, 2009

What do you think of U.S. President Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?

By Richard Smart

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.

Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’

By Alex K.T. Martin

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