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Linkups: Japanese News (8)
Decades of an Americanised diet, Okinawa health officials say, is partly responsible for making islanders fatter, more prone to heart disease and likely to die sooner than either their elders or compatriots in many parts of the mainland.
Learning a Foreign Language for Beginners […]

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Learn English through exercise
So far in this series I’ve talked about finding a language suitable for you, and finding the right dictionary to help you learn words faster. In this post I am going to cover the main resources you will use to learn a foreign language.
Textbooks
If you can, do as much research possible […]

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Sooo I just read two disturbing articles involving high school girls and restrooms.
First, a highschool girl from Wakayama has been acquitted for the death of her baby, which she gave birth to in a restroom. The baby drowned in a bowl, and the girl was consequently accused of murderous intent. Fortunately […]

Yuri Kochiyama
For my senior thesis, I am preparing to write a paper on the roles of women as portrayed by popular Japanese authors, both female and male. Reading the biography of one famous literary author, Tanizaki Junichiro, I was a little disturbed to read this passage from one of his essays:
One of the things […]

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Sad news from Reuters on an incident in which a mom of three leaves her children to fend for themselves for 10 days, which resulted in the death of the youngest 2-year old:
Megumi Shimamura, 29, had apparently moved house and left the children alone in their old residence, a police spokesman in Saitama, […]

Kawakami Meiko turned blogging into a literary art form when she won the highly acclaimed Akutagawa Award for best new writer. Originally started to promote her music career, Kawakami started to get attention from readers for her writings instead.
Kawakami won the award with her third novel that was compiled with her prose-like blog entries, […]

OK, so there is this series of books called Samurai Girl, which focuses on a protagonist named Heaven Kogo who is forced into marrying some guy because her father is part of a yakuza gang, and now she is learning how to become a samurai so she can avenge her brother’s death, who was killed […]

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As if people didn’t have enough incentive to drink sake in Japan (there is sake for just about every seasonal occasion), Osake Therapy will help teach you the beauty benefits of drinking sake with their training courses. They focus on three points that sake can help with: Body Therapy, Mind Therapy, and […]

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Japanese media is stressing the senseless slaughter of millions of kangaroos in Australia to point out the hypocrisy in Australia’s campaign for Japan to stop whaling.
Wildlife Protection Association of Australia president Pat O’Brien backed Japan, saying the international media focus on the cull would embarrass the Federal Government.
“Nobody would seriously think that […]

Constellation
I envy those who live in or around Culver City, CA, where this exhibition for Korin Faught is taking plac at the Corey Helford Gallery! The exhibition, entitled “Twenty Two,” features a series of paintings of twins and other people lying around.  The poses are natural and the faces haunting–I especially love the way […]