Manga’s bizarre setting holds mirror to our world PREMIUM
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Super Sentai Spirits concert in Tokyo full of good spirits PREMIUM
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Rise of the color brown: What does it mean? PREMIUM
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Rakugo: Performing art that offers more than just laughs PREMIUM
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Now is time to form ‘Western Pacific Union’ PREMIUM
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Use nuclear power to decarbonize Japan PREMIUM
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Dashi at heart of ‘Kyoto cuisine’ PREMIUM
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China’s ‘dream’ undermines world order PREMIUM
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Go! Happy Mania: Reboot may be manga genre’s juncture PREMIUM
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Rakugo: Son keeps Sanyutei Kinba name burning brightly PREMIUM
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3rd and final Abenomics arrow falls short PREMIUM
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Unique fish dishes developed in Kyoto PREMIUM
Tai sea bream sashimi served at Hyotei, an elegant and time-honored restaurant in Kyoto, was a favorite dish of novelist Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965). As noted in this column last month, even the ti...
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Abe’s legacy: Stable, standardized politics PREMIUM
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Stop food insecurity from worsening PREMIUM
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‘Imuri’ poses questions on par with other manga masterpieces PREMIUM
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Online event reconnects Super Sentai ‘Red’ heroes PREMIUM
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Noh: Japanese noh mask returns to the stage after 120-year hiatus PREMIUM
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Violence may follow close U.S. election PREMIUM
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Will Miyashita Park define Shibuya redevelopment? PREMIUM
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The irony of throwing away plastic bags and masks in Japan PREMIUM
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Sentai ‘Reds’ assemble in Tokyo in the age of a new normal PREMIUM
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Mothers talking about tots: From whose perspective and about what? PREMIUM
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Kabuki: ‘Cho Kabuki’ goes online with Hatsune Miku PREMIUM
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Abe lavished attention on ending deflation, without empathy PREMIUM
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COVID-19 hinders cancer detection PREMIUM
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Spread Japan-style hospitals overseas PREMIUM
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Mangaka-cum-anthropologist sets new mold with fantasy saga PREMIUM
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It takes laughter to mend the torn fabric of our community after the pandemic PREMIUM
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Kabuki: Performances resume at Kabukiza Theatre PREMIUM
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Nitori shows strength amid pandemic in Japan PREMIUM
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Show must go on through streaming PREMIUM
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Personal identity, outward action: The inner self in Japan and Canada PREMIUM
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Kabuki: Masterpiece reconstructed, streamed on Zoom in innovative endeavor PREMIUM
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Maintain ideals despite virus uncertainty PREMIUM
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COVID-19 crisis sparks deja vu, insight PREMIUM
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Buyo: Kabuki comes to aid of classical dance PREMIUM
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Watch post-coronavirus interest rate path PREMIUM
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Are masks the savior of apparel companies in Japan? PREMIUM
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Rokyoku: Fresh blood heralds revival of narrative art PREMIUM
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Use of troops will stifle U.S. democracy PREMIUM
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COVID-19 puts strain on social contracts PREMIUM
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Bunraku: Masterpiece of traditional Japanese puppetry available online PREMIUM
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Now is the time for Japan to form a more family-friendly society PREMIUM
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Kabuki: Shochiku looks for ways to make the most of important year PREMIUM
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How to recover from worst economic falloff PREMIUM
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Aesop’s fables and the Amakusa Esopo fabulas in Japan’s moral divergence PREMIUM
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Improving productivity is key to establishing telework in Japan PREMIUM
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Rakugo: Storytellers go online amid pandemic PREMIUM
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‘Japan’s democracy’ at fault for insufficient coronavirus measures PREMIUM
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Response to COVID-19 in Japan, U.S. shows different cultural ideas about self, society PREMIUM
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Japanese government should show its determination PREMIUM
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China’s Belt and Road going off track PREMIUM
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Fashioning, carving, mastering, ingesting are all cultural representations of learning PREMIUM
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Kami-kiri: Compelling, fun art of paper cutting PREMIUM
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Seek embers of hope in pandemic ashes PREMIUM
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Japan finally shifts to new model of recovery PREMIUM
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Art, life and baseball persist on central Tokyo’s nearly silent streets PREMIUM
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Kabuki et cetera: Ancestors overcame fear of epidemics through power of performing arts PREMIUM
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European cooperation that won’t be defeated by crisis PREMIUM
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Deep reading is key to Japanese education PREMIUM
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Lessons for N.Y., world to learn from ominous 2011 film ‘Contagion’ PREMIUM
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‘Shelter-at-home’ chance to count life’s blessings we take for granted PREMIUM
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Rakugo: Indefatigable comic has more than entertainment on his mind PREMIUM
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What we talk about when we talk about sake PREMIUM
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Noh: Deep insight from performer’s Lebanese wife PREMIUM
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Continuing to move forward as time goes by PREMIUM
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Pause to find the truth as false rumors spread amid social anxiety PREMIUM
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Rakugo: Katsura Bunchin always keeps in step with the times PREMIUM
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A more flexible moving season PREMIUM
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The ‘ne’ paradox: Coexisting politeness, impoliteness in Japanese culture PREMIUM
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On Stage Vol.21 / Kodan: Star continues to rise as talent, wit boosted him to become Hakuzan PREMIUM
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‘White, male’ Fed reaches diversity milestone
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The Sumo Scene: Mystical fight to the death deeply etched PREMIUM
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GNLF global youth forum ponders ‘community’ in an era of division PREMIUM
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Japan, Australia and Britain should forge closer security ties in a fast-changing world PREMIUM
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Japan continues its study on Arctic sea ice melt PREMIUM
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‘Jewelry boxes’ where all could celebrate disappearing from provincial areas PREMIUM
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Japanese cuisine in U.S. evolved beyond national origin PREMIUM
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Bunraku & Kabuki: Two sides of the same coin PREMIUM
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Goeido ‘gracefully’ retires but demotion-hit ozeki keep pushing PREMIUM
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The U.K. will surely pay price for Brexit PREMIUM
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Prep for economic crises before they hit PREMIUM
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Meeting a superheroine from my childhood at Saitama literary event PREMIUM
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Kyogen: Energetic, wily character Taro kaja makes for great theater PREMIUM
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The significance of the Japanese bath more than just splish splash PREMIUM
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What could a geographical era and childhood anime have in common? PREMIUM
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February is when sumo wrestlers finally get to enjoy the New Year PREMIUM
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Cancer groups should form united front PREMIUM
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South Korea’s push for tourism in North must navigate skepticism, U.S. pressure
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People’s efforts bring snow to Sapporo Snow Festival PREMIUM
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Mystery scientifically proved but mystical feelings remain PREMIUM
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Personal loss is part of larger social and economic change PREMIUM
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Anime song diva Mitsuko Horie to celebrate 50th anniversary in style PREMIUM
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Evaluating Abe’s diplomacy in 3 ways PREMIUM
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Kabuki: An exhilarating change from woman to man PREMIUM
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Will ‘michi kake’ bring back customers to Daimaru Umeda department store in Osaka? PREMIUM
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Road to being an anime singer: Hiroki Takahashi’s story PREMIUM
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Dr. Nakamura’s killing in Afghanistan unfathomable PREMIUM
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Japan’s fiscal ship taking on water PREMIUM
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My mother is a control freak, I don’t like being at home PREMIUM