English-language video sparks tweet in which she worries about pressure to “kill the person I am.”
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And even if the owner won’t budge on the rent, you can still negotiate for some concessions that could save you a ton of cash.
No other travel document opens as many doors around the world as Japan’s passport just edges the number-tow nation.
Don’t worry if you can’t make it to your local temple! Now you can collect up all the online roasts you’ve received and cast them into this cyberfire.
In work-till-you-drop Japan, company is coming to the aid of distraught employees who say “I want to die.”
Will the equivalent of one vending machine drink an hour be enough to gather the 80,000 volunteers the event is seeking?
Twitter debate shows that one person’s eye candy is another’s visual garbage.
The life of the stressed-out main character in the live-action Winnie the Pooh film is one of leisure compared to many Japanese adults’.
”This is what I hate about Japan” remarks commenter as regulations prevent kindhearted gift.
Most would call Japan’s famously long life expectancy a good thing, but for these Japanese women it’s more than a decade more than they want to stick around.
Being in the biggest city in Japan means you’re probably sharing the walkway with more people than you’d like, but here’s how to make things easier.
Father is shown doing so little to help around the house some people wonder if he’s even alive.
Maybe they should stop worrying about what’s on TV, and start worrying about why their kids aren’t asleep, says critic of critics.
P.K. Sanjun takes a look at some of the common criteria used to define what makes a person “Japanese,” and whether they’ll still be used in the future.
Ministry of Justice proposal aims to let foreign students stay in Japan after they finish school and work their way up the professional ladder.
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