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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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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: why August is the season of ghosts in Japan — and why Japanese ghosts are nothing like the ones you grew up with.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: the week when Japan stops, the spirits of the dead come home, and millions of people get on the road to meet them.
 
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: what the Kumamoto earthquake tells us about how Japan has learned to live with the ground moving beneath it.
 
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
Tokyo is telling its office workers to wear shorts — and understanding why that is genuinely news requires understanding how Japan thinks about clothes…and conformity.
 
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: Japan just passed a law to save its imperial family — and in doing so, may have signed its death warrant.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
Japan is drinking less — and the country that invented the after-work drinking party is quietly trying to figure out what comes next.
 
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