Name: Shari
Dateline: Tokyo, Japan
Weblog: myso-calledjapaneselife.blogspot.com
Articles: 20
First Published: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Last Published: Sunday, April 13, 2008
Currently listing articles 20-1:
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Japan: A "Safety" Country— There's a big difference between "safe" and "safer than."
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The Body Language of Prejudice— Visitors to Japan are told silently but unquestionably that they are different.
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Book Review: Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons— An author finds the answers she wants to hear rather than seriously exploring the issue at hand.
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Wallowing in Victimhood— The Japanese tend to talk as though WWII started in August, 1945.
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Gays in Japan Stay In The Closet— Society is neither hostile nor sympathetic toward gays in Japan.
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An Apology Goes a Long Way in Japan— Japan’s corporate takeover king goes to prison.
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Comfort Women or Sex Slaves?— Japanese reluctance lets their government closet history, excise it from history books, and run out the clock until the last of the victims have died.
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TV Review: 24 - Season 6— 24 forces us to think about many moral questions, in addition to providing nonstop, addictive action and entertainment.
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What’s Your Blood Type, Baby?— In Japan, a Type A personality isn’t what you'd expect.
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Is Racism Against White People Possible?— Japan finds humor at the expense of westerners.
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Unrequited Love— We should think about the problems unrequited love causes for the beloved, as well as for the lover.
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Parents and Forgiveness— I still can’t completely forgive my parents, despite having sympathy for what led them to being bad parents.
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Music, Software, and Video Piracy— Content creators need to offer the customers something more enticing than getting music for free.
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The Limits of Language— How our phonetics and native language limit our expression.
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Living Your Ethics— Can you separate the art from the artist and live up to your ethical ideals?
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Housecleaning: Getting Past Gender Stereotypes— How to stop arguing over the toilet seat and the housework.
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Soul Mates, Fate and Free Will— Thoughts on how fate and free will can peacefully co-exist
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Those Who Can’t Do, Teach— Taking an old saw to task.
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It's A Boy For Royal Family of Japan— Japan celebrates the birth of the first male heir in 41 years. One must wonder why.
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Prove To a Blind Man That Sight Exists— Maybe psychics are not crazy. Perhaps you are just blind to what they can see.
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