Japan’s Delightful 80-Hour Work Week
If you ever visit Tokyo, you cannot walk down the street or board a train without bumping into a Salaryman. “Salaryman” is the Japanese-English term for male white-collar workers. The…
Japan’s State Secrets Laws Empowers The Elite and Muzzles The Press: FOP RIP 12/10/2014
It allows Japan’s 19 government ministries to designate certain information as state secrets. The state secret classification lasts five years, a period that can be extended to 60 years. Any…
Brand Japan, Brand Abe: A Clash of Narratives
Written by Nancy Snow Two decades ago I was working at the United States Information Agency (USIA), an independent foreign affairs agency of the U.S. Government. We were separate from…
日本の報道の自由を守ろう！報道推進賞に記者等をノミネート。２３日が締め切り！
日本外国特派員協会は第１回報道の自由推進賞を新設に向けて小さな一歩を踏み出した。賞は5月3日（世界報道の自由の日）に発表される。調査報道に与えられる特別賞や、報道の自由に貢献したジャーナリスト以外の人に与えられる賞がある。
Cherry Blossom Sale In Tokyo! Last chance to 花見！
As eerie as the location sounds, Aoyama Cemetery is far from spooky with hundreds of trees that bloom each spring. The cemetery also contains the graves of several notables including…
Make It A Swinging Sunday Night: Pole Dance Tokyo Student Showcase
Pole Dance. It started as something sexy, turned into an art-form, a fitness boom, and it's still as sexy as hell. From the people who made Pole Dance an International…
US citizen dies after being taken in to protective custody in February/赤坂警察署の説明が正しい模様
On February 2nd, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Agency announced the death of an American national who allegedly went on a rampage in the street of Akasaka, was taken into protective…
Should Fuji-Sankei Group be red-faced over scheduled blackface music program in Japan?
This photo of two Japanese musical groups posing together in blackface, white gloves and costumes, gained attention when tweeted by several journalists and many others. Some consider it racist.
Shape Up, Face Up: Testing out latest weird Japanese face toning barbell
While heavily advertised in Japan, this facial exerciser seems unlikely to restore my youthful beauty or my dignity.
Japan’s Establishment Is A-Okay With Apartheid! 日本へようこそ！
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