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Digging for insights on foreigners living in Japan from some of the most prominent figures
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
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The Contemporary Western Experience in Japan, by Adam Komisarof. Reitaku University Press, 2012, 251 pp., ¥3,570 (hardcover) Donald Richie, prolific author of more than 40 books and longtime contributor to The Japan Times, died in February at age 88.
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Readers' views: Skype's downside for teachers; Senkaku and the ICJ; Arudou's ageist attack on Keene; Abe's nuclear folly
Ōsaka :: Japan | 5 months ago
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What are your hopes for yourself, Japan and the world in 2013? " (Views From The Street, Jan. 1): Looking at your questions to people of Osaka about their hopes for 2013, I wonder yet again about the Japanese obsession with people's ages?
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Is Shintaro Ishihara the most dangerous man in Japan? Readers discuss
Hashimoto :: Japan | 6 months ago
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Readers discuss Parallels with wartime general Re: " The world according to Toru Hashimoto " by Eric Johnston (Light Gist, Oct. 30): Only one kana syllable (or one letter in romaji ) separates (Nippon Ishin no Kai leader Shintaro) Ishihara from (
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Revisionists, the Senkakus and Debito: readers' views
Hiroshima :: Japan | 8 months ago
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Your concerns that Japan is returning to the militarism of the early Showa Era borderline on the ridiculous. The term " happ o bijin " has negative connotations, and is hardly something that Japan should strive for in its foreign policy. Japan Self-
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Divergent views on Debito; the fate of mixed-nationality kids
Tōkyō :: Japan | 9 months ago
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Arudou, they say, should shut up and accept the good with the bad. This reminds me of myself 20 years ago, after first arriving in Japan. My first trainer, a Scotsman who spoke six languages and already had eight years in Japan under his belt,
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Toot your own horn — don't let the modesty scam keep you down
Tōkyō :: Japan | 10 months ago
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As per this column's title, this month's topic was chosen, well, "just because" it's been on my mind. Some weeks ago I was asked to give a speech at my current research institute. When I offered workshops on activism and racial discrimination in
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For nikkei, It doesn't have to be a bug's life: readers bite back
Tōkyō :: Japan | 10 months ago
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SAY For nikkei , It doesn't have to be a bug's life: readers bite back Arudou of the Occident As a former nikkei resident of Japan, I, as well as my community colleagues, must express strong disapproval of The Japan Times' decision to publish Debito
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For nikkei immigrants in Japan, it doesn't have to be a bug's life
Tōkyō :: Japan | 11 months ago
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As Beto awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his futon into a gigantic cockroach. "What's happened to me?" he thought. In his native land down south, he had been a person if at times underprivileged due to his nikkei
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Less naming and shaming, better translations and more pragmatism, please
Tōkyō :: Japan | 11 months ago
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Readers of those articles will know that this claim is nonsense, and that I frequently criticise some Japanese policies, including immigration policies, as closed-minded. Meanwhile, Mr. Arudou, for his own reasons, never misses an opportunity not
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Strong winds linger from the microaggressions tempest
Okinawa :: Japan | 12 months ago
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But has Debito ever listened to any Japanese-Japanese conversations? One would be hard-pressed to find an interaction between casual acquaintances that doesn't begin with something about the weather. Is this reliance on the same ice-breaker when
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