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Kid’s fake tears: One culture’s response may be a far cry from another
Many years ago, I witnessed a Japanese mother decline a request made by her daughter, who I’ll call ...
March 3, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Listen to the students: Social relevance is the way to save liberal education
Just as economists and demographers worry about Japan’s “2025 problem,” when more than 30% of Japan’...
February 17, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Mushroom-based leather positioned as revolutionary, sustainable material
We continue to hear many news stories about sustainable materials even in the year 2022. Even in the...
February 4, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Can ‘new capitalism’ end economic woes?
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s pledge to implement a “new form of capitalism” has aroused political ...
February 4, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Foraging for food was a legacy of my father’s distant memories of hunger
When I was growing up, there were unpaved roads and vacant lots around my house. Whoever owned them ...
January 20, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Be on the lookout for femtech, NFTs in 2022
What will the new year bring us in fashion? To see what 2022 has in store, let’s first look back at ...
January 7, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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CULTURAL CONUNDRUMS / Ordinary brilliance: Differing representations of year-end gift-giving
The holiday season has ended and the Western media’s gift-list frenzy along with it. This time I was...
January 6, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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‘Let’s be strong’: Japanese moves and relational work in advice-giving
Recently, I received some unsolicited advice from an elderly relative, who I’ll call Granny Opine, t...
January 3, 2022 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Continuing struggle with the pandemic tests our ability to adapt
Around 10,000-12,000 years ago, Homo sapiens sapiens began to actively modify the natural environmen...
December 16, 2021 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Former Indian ambassador to Japan introduces memoir written by his colleague
Former Indian Ambassador to Japan Aftab Seth contributed a book review on a memoir written by his co...
December 3, 2021 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Fashion brands collaborate with budget restaurant chains
One of the most notable promotion strategies in the fashion industry over the past two decades must ...
December 3, 2021 - SPECIAL TO JN
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My students and I are all learning: teamwork is hard work
I hated group work when I was a student. It was a real problem in Japanese schools I attended decade...
November 18, 2021 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Afghanistan remains geopolitically vital
“Feng sheng he li” in Chinese, or “fusei kakurei” in Japanese, is a classic Chinese idiom that liter...
November 11, 2021 - SPECIAL TO JN
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Being a kanji party organizer: The constructivist nature of honorifics
Yesterday in a writing class I pointed out that the correct pronoun to refer to a company is “it,” n...
November 4, 2021 - SPECIAL TO JN
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