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Japan · August, 2007
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Stories about Japan from August, 2007

31 August 2007

Japan: Robot cat

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · Economics & Business

Japan: Living in the Internet Cafe

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · Media & Journalism

30 August 2007

Japan: Executed Death-Row Inmate was Mentally-Ill

Written by Chris Salzberg · Quick Reads · Breaking News

Japan: Life out of a Manga Kissa

Written by Chris Salzberg · Economics & Business

Results of a survey just released by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has found that thousands of people across Japan bordering on poverty live their lives out...

Japan: Soy Sauce for Ice-cream

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · Economics & Business

28 August 2007

Japan: Brain Inside Maker

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · Ideas

Japan: Garbage Bag Art Work

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · Arts & Culture

26 August 2007

Japan: Peace Child 2007

Written by Chris Salzberg · Quick Reads · Environment

Japan: Crazy for a Bug

Written by Chris Salzberg · Arts & Culture

A catchy tune about a funny-looking bug that bites people's bums and makes them happy, featured regularly as filler between children's programming on the national broadcaster NHK, is catching on...

25 August 2007

Japan: Yokozuna gets the boot

Written by Hanako Tokita · Central Asia & Caucasus

Never far from controversy, Mongolian Yokozuna (sumo champion) Asashoryu is again in hot water. He left Japan having submitted a doctor's note claiming he was injured, after which a video...

Japan: Time-lapse Tokyo

Written by Chris Salzberg · Quick Reads · Arts & Culture

Japan: Three Death Penalty Executions on Aug. 23

Written by Chris Salzberg · Quick Reads · Governance

18 August 2007

Japan: The Hunt for Otaku

Written by Chris Salzberg · Quick Reads · Technology

17 August 2007

Japan: New Labour Contract Law

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · Labor

South Korea: Aug 15

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · China

16 August 2007

Japan: Living With the Heat

Written by Chris Salzberg · Economics & Business

As Japan suffers through what likely will become its hottest summer on record, with temperatures topping 40 degrees in some places and humidity at all-time highs, and even as business...