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Japan: In a World with Automatic Translation

Posted by Tomomi Sasaki on 16/11/2009

In a post titled I especially want to read 'trivial information' (), Japanese blogger Chikirin gives a fresh perspective on what's important or not and why.

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Japan: Hitler's “Mein Kampf”, the manga version

Posted by Scilla Alecci on 13/11/2009

After more than 80 years since its first publication, Hitler's Mein Kampf has become a Manga comic.The 190 page volume, which sold some 45,000 copies in the first printing, tells in a very simple way the story of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood to his rise as the leader of the National Sociali ...

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'South Park' creators build mountain home with green credentials

Posted by AditiJ on 10/11/2009

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of American animated sitcom called South Park have recently got an environmentally friendly mansion constructed for themselves in western Colorado. Dubbed as the Steamboat Springs, the $5 million...

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Japan: Debating the fate of Shimokitazawa

Posted by Chris Salzberg on 04/11/2009

Tokyo's neighborhood of Shimokitazawa is well-known for its complicated spaghetti-like web of shop-lined streets, train tracks and back alleyways, but that web may be in for a big change. Plans to redevelop the area to make way for a 26-meter wide thoroughfare had already aroused opposition amon ...

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Japan: Latest survey on poverty destroys the prosperity myth

Posted by Scilla Alecci on 25/10/2009

One Japanese in six is living in poverty says the latest Welfare Ministry report [en]. According to OECD figures [en], Japan has one of the highest poverty rates in the developed world and is 4th after only Mexico, Turkey and the U.S.In September, Makoto Yuasa, Secretary-general of Anti Poverty Net ...

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