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VOX POPULI: What’s the point of election posters in a digital world?

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VOX POPULI: Pressure on women to have kids adds to 'low birthrate trap'

VOX POPULI: Pressure on women to have kids adds to 'low birthrate trap'

In “Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers,” Paul Morland, an eminent British authority on demography, said of Japan’s continuing...

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EDITORIAL: Diversity the key in media firms to combating sexual abuse

EDITORIAL: Diversity the key in media firms to combating sexual abuse

With the attention focused on repeated cases of sexual abuse in mass media companies, many victims with scars from the past may be blaming...

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VOX POPULI: Consider a slice of rainy season ‘myoga’ as some food for thought

VOX POPULI: Consider a slice of rainy season ‘myoga’ as some food for thought

In the damp, heavy air of the rainy season, I try to revive both body and spirit with meals generously garnished with aromatic condiments: “oba,”...

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VOX POPULI: JSA must explain its shoddy treatment of retired Hakuho

VOX POPULI: JSA must explain its shoddy treatment of retired Hakuho

After resigning from the Japan Sumo Association, retired yokozuna Hakuho, 40, told a news conference on June 9, “For 25 years, I was loved by sumo...

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VOX POPULI: Lake Biwa Canal enlivened Kyoto while mixing in Western motifs

VOX POPULI: Lake Biwa Canal enlivened Kyoto while mixing in Western motifs

The gentle murmur of flowing water accompanied me throughout the journey. From the lakeside city of Otsu to Kyoto, I walked a roughly 12-kilometer...

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EDITORIAL: Ignoring TEPCO leaders' decisions on Fukushima plant an outrage

EDITORIAL: Ignoring TEPCO leaders' decisions on Fukushima plant an outrage

We cannot but doubt that the judicial branch is squarely facing up to the irreparable damage caused by the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

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