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November 14, 2024 Chisato Nakatsugawa and Sora Matsuo The frequency of seeing kale in Japan is perhaps less than in other countries. If...

November 14, 2024 Saki Wada and Ayaka Tsuchiya ”Build a stone wall with Konnyaku .” This is a Japanese proverb that means doing...

January 27, 2024 Fuka Arai Japanese companies tend to ask job seekers to wear “recruit suits” with a black jacket, skirt/trousers, pumps,...

July 27, 2023 Kiwa Tomonari A Japanese cosmetics brand called Canmake Tokyo has changed their jingle from "Girls are very enjoyable!"  to...

January 27, 2024 Momo Muraki There is no standard definition of "beauty." If it is truly so, you can define it whatever you like. But...

July 2, 2022 Saki Nakamura Do you like your face? Do you like your shape? In Japan, a lot of young women seem not to be confident in...

July 3, 2022 Momoho Kumekawa Kim Kardashian, a celebrity and business person in the U.S., has launched a brand Skims, which sells...

July 2, 2022 Kiho Taguchi Motherhouse is a Japanese fashion brand that has strong capacity of product design and planning, manufacturing,...

July 3, 22 Arisa Yajima On April 4, 2022, a full-page advertisement for the comic Tawawa on Monday ( Getsuyo-bino Tawawa) published in...

July 07, 2022 Hikari Ishikawa Is a spouse’s consent necessary for an abortion? In Japan, the curettage method accounts for 80% of all...

May 30, 2020 Misato Sasaki Johnny & Associates, the top agency of Japanese entertainment, started their social contribution to counter...

August 9, 2019 Misaki Nishi Have you ever witnessed or been bullied by your classmates, friends, or yourself being bullied? Currently,...

August 8, 2019 Aoi Kojima How many hours do you use the smartphone in a day? Can you live without a smartphone? Smartphones are very...

Saori Kikutani February 27, 2019 Do you think how many animals are euthanized per year in Japan? Unfortunately, euthanasia is the only...

Sae Kanazawa February 27, 2019 In Japan, poverty level of single-mother family is one of the serious social problems. There are about 52...

Erika Iijima February 27, 2019 Do you like yourself? Do you take care for yourself? A lot of Japanese teenagers have low self-esteem....

Nami Sasai February 27, 2019 Japanese people begun to see more and more foreigners throughout Japan these days. They seem like tourists...

Megumi Kitazawa July 26, 2018 At the Closing ceremony of the  Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared as Super...

Mai Watanabe July 26, 2018 Poverty of Children Weakens Japan In the world, 9.6% of people lives under $1.9 per a day. It is called...

Aya Uchiyama July 26, 2018 How we Japan have keep “monozukuri” in industries As I studied abroad in Boston, I realized that “Made in...