theTokyoBill Weekly - Stories from Japan, told from Japan

Stories from Japan, told from Japan.  
This week:  A story about costumes, trains, and a holiday that has never quite belonged to anyone in Japan.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week:  A story about Okinawa, the US military presence, and an island that has spent centuries belonging to everyone except itself.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.  
This week:  A story about youth, pressure, and what happens when a society's children decide it is easier to talk to a machine than to the adults around them.  
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: thirty-seven days of rain, a rice market swinging between shortage and glut, and fish that have simply stopped showing up.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.  
This week:  A story about youth, pressure, and what happens when a society's children decide it is easier to talk to a machine than to the adults around them.  
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: Japan's seventy-year-old prostitution law is finally under review, and the debate it has opened reveals something uncomfortable about who the law was always designed to protect. 
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: how Japan went from one of the world's most cash-dependent societies to one of its most complex payment ecosystems.
 
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: a story about analog and digital Japan, and what happens when a society that perfected the old has to decide whether to embrace the new.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
 
This week: how a country whose constitution renounces war became one of the Indo-Pacific's most sought-after weapons suppliers — and why it had no choice.  
 
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: Japan spent thirteen years and billions of yen trying to make itself cool — and this week the government finally admitted it didn't work.
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