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What Impresses Foreign Tourists When They Come to Japan?― Explaining Japanese...
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Cats and Japanese People
Cats have lived alongside people for more than ten thousand years. A comfortable society for cats is a comfortable society for human beings. This, they say, is the age of cats. Each year, the number of...
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Vacant Houses are Undermining Tokyo Reconsider the Relaxation of City...
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Kagaku-TsushinIsland Signs: The Sign Language of Miyakubo in Ehime Prefecture
Yano Uiko Matsuoka Kazumi Yano Uiko, one of this article’s two authors, comes from Miyakubo Town, which is a part of Imabari City in Ehime Prefecture. The town is located on the island of Oshima,...
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The Topic of Japan Viewed from Oxford
How do people at universities overseas view Japan? What do those universities teach students about Japan? I would like to answer these questions in this special feature of Chuokoron based on my own...
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Inbound Tourism and Japanese People ― Issues related to the increase in...
The influx of foreign tourists into Japan reminds one sociologist of American soldiers stationed in Japan immediately after the Second World War. What does he think of the current tourism boom? In this...
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What Impresses Foreign Tourists When They Come to Japan?― Explaining Japanese...
Photo: Courtesy of the Japan Guide Association As an tour guide-interpreter, Hagimura Masayo sometimes spends as long as two weeks traveling around the whole of Japan with foreign visitors, so no-one...
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Dialogue: Challenge by Tottori, the Least Populous Prefecture in JapanThere...
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Prevent Japan from bankruptcy due to the shortage of workersHold discussions...
Kinosaki hot-spring district, Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture The effective opening-to-application ratio in March 2017 was 1.45, a high value for the first time in 26 years and 4 months since November...
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Introduction Asakawa Chieko, IBM Fellow I joined IBM Research-Tokyo in 1985 as the only visually impaired researcher at a time when there were very few female researchers at the lab. Since then, I have...
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