2008/11/11

"postcards from..." JAPAN (Time Magazine)

Tokyo - Pepsi Ice Cucumber, Anyone?
In Japan's snack and beverage market, the new, new thing is already so "last week"

Inbox
Jan. 3, 2008 ...often thought that my homeland, Japan, needs many more people from other countries to come here...475 words view cover

Japan's Booming Sex Niche: Elder Porn
Jul. 7, 2008 By Michiko Toyama...condom maker Durex, among others, Japan is repeatedly found to be...should respect them and learn from them." Tokuda, meanwhile, stresses the...706 words view cover

Postcard: Tokyo
Feb. 21, 2008 By Coco MastersSometimes a town moves only as fast as its escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood in northwestern Tokyo's Toshima ward...718 words view cover

Postcard: Taiji
Oct. 15, 2007 By Hannah Beech...world opposes hunting dolphins and pilot whales. And in this part of Japan, the mercury content is off the charts. So why is deep-fried dolphin...

Japan Loves Nagoya
Mar. 28, 2005 By Jim Frederick...Nagoya in central Japan, on ground that...buses zip guests from one end of...rocket-ride pavilions on postcards as reminders of...991 words view cover

Postcards on the Edge
Nov. 10, 2003 By Liam Fitzpatrick...columns are entitled "Postcard from ... " Because unless...sent, while in Japan, there are plans...545 words view cover

Japan Thugs Beware
Mar. 14, 1988 By Howard G. Chua-Eoan...on forearms. In Japan, this is the...1,500 protest postcards to Tetsuya Aono...by 300 officers from other communities. Hamamatsu...517 words view cover

The Birdman Of Osaka
Sep. 16, 1974 ...a whisky distiller. But then, Keizo Saji, 54, chairman and president of Japan's Suntory Ltd., and coiner of the slogan, is a rather...218 words view cover

Build Small
Nov. 16, 1962 ...smaller than a postcard (4½ in..... Made by Japan's Sony...on the juice from an auto cigarette...494 words view cover

OUT OF THE FLOATING WORLD
Mar. 14, 1955 ...course. (The censure may stem from the fact that he spent...to hike up and down Japan sketching. He turned his sketches...507 words view cover