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January 19, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The sickness of Japan, in one groveling apology by the oldest boy band in the world.
January 15, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Who are Donald Trump’s Muslim, tractor-purchasing, Asian-market-watching friends?
December 28, 2015
Elaine Teng
Japan, meet Mr. Babe.
December 22, 2015
Mako Nozu, Brian Thompson
Why Is Japan So Obsessed With Moss?
Two academics explain the rationale behind the country's latest craze.
June 8, 2015
Rebecca Leber
A Sign that Canada's Climate Obstructionism May Be Coming to an End
March 3, 2015
Christopher Beam
Phantom of the Orchestra
Mamoru Samuragochi’s story hit all the right notes: a deaf genius whose music inspired a nation. But the “Japanese Beethoven” wasn’t who he seemed.
December 1, 2014
Paul D. Miller
America, Don't Give Up on Afghanistan
This war is still winnable
November 18, 2014
Maia Booker
Haunting Photos of Japan's Tsunami Survivors Posing Atop Their Flattened Homes
November 17, 2014
Danny Vinik
Japan Is Back in Recession—And the U.S. Is Making the Same Mistakes
August 6, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
The Japanese Literature Trend That's Half Cupcake, Half Decapitation
March 11, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Fukushima Fearmongers
What unites the left and right: a radioactive plume headed for the West Coast
January 15, 2014
Dane Huckelbridge
Bourbon's Been Dealing With Carpetbaggers Since Long Before a Japanese Company Bought Jim Beam
November 22, 2013
Alice Robb
Yes, Japanese People Have Sex. But Do They Have Menopause?
June 24, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Religion and the Japanese Suicide Epidemic
June 12, 2013
John B. Judis
Abenomics is the answer
March 17, 2013
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Toyo Ito's Pritzker Prize
An architect with a sense of the body
January 3, 2013
John B. Judis
Obama Wasn't Rolled. He Won!
December 20, 2012
Anne Applebaum
Poland in the Darkness of World War II
August 24, 2012
John B. Judis
Mitt Romney, Latter-Day Neocon
August 2, 2012
Jennifer Homans
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