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Interactive Feature: Akihabara Virtual Street Tour
*CLICK ON THE LOCATION NAME TO VISIT AREA VIRTUALLY IN GOOGLE STREETVIEW. Akihabara Station When you first get off the train at Akihabara Station, this is probably the first sight you’ll see… the road...
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Forbes: Tokyo As Blade Runner Meets Sex And The City
In an uncharacteristically steamy posting, financial tome Forbes gives voice to writer Lawrence Osborne who recounts his visits to Tokyo, Japan and describes the city as a real-life version of the...
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BBC Global Affairs: Is Japan A Dying Nation?
While Japan’s financial fortunes still put it in the number two slot right behind the United States in terms of financial resources, the BBC’s Robin Lustig asks a question that is increasingly on the...
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How star power can restore Japan tourism
In what might be described as Japan’s most direct international appeal for calm and consideration in the wake of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and the ensuing export trade issues characterized by...
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The challenge for domestic and foreign media in Japan
In the days after the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear emergency in Japan, foreign journalists were unable to gather any news material directly from the Japanese government. The reason behind...
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Foursquare: Hong Kong happier than London?
Foursquare, the mobile software service that lets you check into places around the world to score points with friends, recently celebrated the fact that it has cracked 10 million users. The blog post...
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PICTORIAL: SLOW DEATH BY TOKYO COMMUTE
People visit Tokyo and think they know the epic struggle that it is to be a Tokyo salaryman or office lady (OL)…but they have no idea. In the summer the daily grind of stepping onto a packed sardine...
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BAD ENGLISH BLAMED FOR ASIA AIR TRAFFIC DANGER
We now have incontrovertible evidence that English is the default language of international communication even in Asia, but it took a near fatal air disaster to prove it. On Monday China Eastern...
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