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It sounded like stereotyping he’d heard before, but it turns out there was a twist ending.
Watanabe acknowledged anti-Asian sentiment in the States on her livestream but consoled viewers with a kind tale from the streets of New York.
Japan’s population continues to become more international, but the situation might be changing soon.
One of Tokyo’s neighbors may become the first place in Japan to enact punishment for hate speech.
You can’t produce a foreign resident card when you’re not a foreigner.
Our Japanese-language reporter had his world turned upside down when his German wife commented on his childhood memories.
Proof that one country’s horror is another’s hunger.
Bring the taste of Japan back home with you by learning to make your favorite Japanese food from the people who know it best.
What makes for a good couple? Our Japanese-language writer muses on her own marriage to a French husband and its notable quirks.
After spending his first few years living in the U.S., he’s spent the rest of his life answering the same questions over and over.
No other travel document opens as many doors around the world as Japan’s passport just edges the number-tow nation.
”This is Japan, you know?” he asks, but others want to show him the ways of the modern world.
Travel-broadened Japanese Twitter users share their stories of culture shock and pleasant surprises.
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