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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

TECH_JAPAN

GAMES
Japan's gamers are starting to shoot 'em up

By BRIAN ASHCRAFT

It's a long running stereotype: Japanese gamers like role-playing games (RPGs), and Western gamers prefer first-person shooters (FPS). That doesn't mean hardcore FPS players don't exist in Japan. They do. ...

Features

features

May 1, 2012

LIFE & STYLE

Harajuku's new meeting place for fashionistas

By SAMUEL THOMAS

May 1, 2012

LIFE & STYLE

Tommy Hilfiger settles in Tokyo, somewhere between luxury and street fashion

By SAMUEL THOMAS

May 1, 2012

HOME TRUTHS

Who you buy a home from can make a big difference in price

By PHILIP BRASOR and MASAKO TSUBUKU

April 29, 2012

SUNDAY TIMEOUT

Otosan, Japan's top dog

By EDAN CORKILL

April 29, 2012

COUNTERPOINT

Reversing Japan's rising sex aversion may depend on a rebirth of hope

By ROGER PULVERS

April 29, 2012

SUNDAY TIMEOUT

Konami staffer's victory not a game-changer

By TOMOKO OTAKE

April 24, 2012

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Polish journalist-designer-photographers Pawel Musialowski and Malgorzata Gajderowicz

By JUDIT KAWAGUCHI

April 24, 2012

ON DESIGN

Rethinks that reboot familiar concepts

By JEAN SNOW

Community

community

May 1, 2012

THE ZEIT GIST

It's just because . . . foreigners know best

By JOHN SPIRI

May 1, 2012

VIEWS FROM THE STREET

Nagoya: What will you get up to during Golden Week?

By STEPHEN CARR

May 1, 2012

HAVE YOUR SAY

Debito takes on Donald: readers' responses

May 1, 2012

JUST BE CAUSE

Yes, I can use chopsticks: the everyday 'microaggressions' that grind us down

By DEBITO ARUDOU

May 1, 2012

THE ZEIT GIST

Blood, beatings and the cage: the bouncer

By STEPHEN CARR

April 28, 2012

JAPAN LITE

Springtime comes — and goes — on the Love-Love Island

By AMY CHAVEZ

April 28, 2012

LIFE IN JAPAN

Mashiko-based U.S. potter vows he'll not be defeated by 3/11 destruction

By KRIS KOSAKA

April 24, 2012

THE ZEIT GIST

Tokyo gets double dose of gay pride for 2012

By TOBY SIGUENZA

April 24, 2012

VIEWS FROM THE STREET

Tokyo: What do you think of Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara's plan to buy the disputed Senkaku Islands?

By ALLY MACKENZIE

April 24, 2012

LIFELINES: LABOR PAINS

No legal cure-all for fixed-term job insecurity

By HIFUMI OKUNUKI

April 24, 2012

LIGHT GIST

Poetic, but maybe not justice: Japan demystified in haiku

By COLIN P.A. JONES

April 24, 2012

LIFELINES

Will I have trouble re-entering Japan if I lose my gaijin card?

By ASHLEY THOMPSON

Travel and Food

travel and food

April 29, 2012

BACKSTREET STORIES

Foxtrotting around Asukayama

By KIT NAGAMURA

April 27, 2012

FOOD

What to eat when you can't stand the heat

By MAKIKO ITOH

April 27, 2012

HOTELS & RESTAURANTS

Mother's Day lunch with carnations

Environment and Education

environment and education

April 30, 2012

BILINGUAL

Urban safari in the concrete jungle reveals Tokyo wildlife

By MATT ALT

April 29, 2012

ENVIRONMENT

Kamakura's historic 'flowering garden'

By STEPHEN MANSFIELD

April 23, 2012

BILINGUAL

For a challenge guess unknown kanji

By MARK SCHREIBER

Media and Technology

media and technology

April 29, 2012

BIG IN JAPAN

Japanese families on endangered list

By MICHAEL HOFFMAN

April 29, 2012

CHANNEL SURF

Erika Sawajiri is an "Evil Woman"; controversial DaVinci paintings; CM of the week: Lotte Ghana

April 29, 2012

MEDIA MIX

Death sentences prove difficult for lay judges

By PHILIP BRASOR

April 25, 2012

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GADGETS
Create your own home-entertainment network

By RICK MARTIN

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