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Inside Japan’s Disposable Housing Market
In a culture obsessed with newness, no one wants a "used" home—which makes the Japanese real estate market almost unrecognizable to an American.
'Find your own room': Japan says can't handle added Asian Games numbers
There is no dedicated athletes' village, with organisers instead relying on a cruise ship, temporary wooden containers and hotels.
Muni Helps Fuel Japantown’s Recovery
San Francisco’s Japantown is thriving post-pandemic. COVID-19 scrambled most cities’ economies and the way residents and visitors spend money. But sales tax data show some neighborhoods, including Japantown, have made quite a comeback.
5 Vietnamese workers help rescue elderly woman after powerful quake in Kumamoto Pref.
YATSUSHIRO, Kumamoto -- Five young Vietnamese nationals helped rescue an elderly woman from a collapsed house in this southwest Japan city after the a
Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro…
Samurai city - Works in Progress Magazine
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
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Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori | East Bay Booksellers
Yokohama, California, originally published in 1949, is thefirst published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Setin the fictional community of Yokohama, California, Toshio Mori'swork is alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of JapaneseAmerica in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
How Japan Reduced Deaths From a Major Quake
After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.
How Japan Reduced Deaths From a Major Quake
After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.
Information and Communications in Japan 2024
Cozy Fiction, Serious Hope: An Ecocritical Look at Becky Chambers - A Flower in Dystopia
In August 2026 I made a presentation for the Society of Ecocritical Studies – Japan.
