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1. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Consulting the hermit monk Ryokan reincarnated
July 7, 2010
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2. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Igi ari — no leading the witness, or grandma
June 2, 2010
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3. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Children of Japan
May 9, 2010
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4. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Rusuban: The family oni is left holding the fort
May 5, 2010
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5. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Bōtō chinjutsu: First volleys in courtroom battle
April 7, 2010
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6. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Symbols of heaven on Earth
March 14, 2010
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7. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Buddhism's arrival, Shinto's endurance
March 14, 2010
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8. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
In the land of the kami
March 14, 2010
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9. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
At times the job of a saibanin can be real murder
March 3, 2010
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10. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Shiya wo hirogeru: Time to broaden our horizons
Feb. 3, 2010
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11. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
First Snow
Jan. 10, 2010
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12. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
First Snow
Jan. 10, 2010
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13. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
First Snow
Jan. 10, 2010
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14. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
The grateful outcast — feeling good to be needed
Jan. 6, 2010
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15. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Thank God the year's over
Dec. 27, 2009
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16. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Aki aki: fed up with Japan and seeking a new start
Dec. 2, 2009
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17. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Gokai: The more I know Japan, the thicker the fog
Nov. 4, 2009
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18. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Fake names were to the fore in many a rise from humblest to highest
Oct. 11, 2009
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19. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
The long road to identity
Oct. 11, 2009
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20. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
What's in a (Japanese) name?
Oct. 11, 2009
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21. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Sometimes everything just seems to go wrong
Oct. 7, 2009
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22. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Conservativism: hoshushugisha or hankakumeisha
Sept. 2, 2009
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23. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Heisei kids: a generation that struggles to dream
Aug. 5, 2009
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24. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Land of the Sun Goddess
July 12, 2009
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25. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Is boorish behavior a symptom of swine flu?
July 1, 2009
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26. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Back to basics: The choice of seihin or kinben
June 3, 2009
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27. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
A legal lesson: Taking on the (school) system
May 6, 2009
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28. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
A literary loner
April 26, 2009
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29. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Being a sukebe na sensei is tougher than it looks
April 1, 2009
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30. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Mothers-in-law: Our place or an ubasuteyama?
March 4, 2009
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31. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Refuge . . . of a sort
Feb. 22, 2009
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32. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Offensive compliments: A drinker's sober lesson
Feb. 4, 2009
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33. BILINGUAL - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Modern childhood holds many a lesson for adults
Jan. 7, 2009
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34. 2008 MEDIA ROUND-UP - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Making sense of the strange changes of 2008
Dec. 28, 2008
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35. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Progress, and war, arrive
Dec. 14, 2008
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36. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Mystery shrouds the ancient Oshoro circle
Dec. 14, 2008
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37. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Stone Age Japan
Dec. 14, 2008
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38. BILINGUAL - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Keeping a close eye on the neighborhood news
Nov. 18, 2008
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39. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan's sea view through the ages, in poetry, prose and plain speaking
July 27, 2008
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40. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Cipangu's landlocked isles
July 27, 2008
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41. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Was the 'Japanese Renaissance' lost at sea?
July 27, 2008
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42. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Sonoko
May 25, 2008
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43. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
One missionary's 'swamp' is another's 'religion allergy' challenge
Dec. 23, 2007
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44. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan's 'Hidden Christians'
Dec. 23, 2007
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45. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
From Bliss to blood
Dec. 23, 2007
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46. EDUCATION - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Translating full of judgment calls, compromises
Dec. 4, 2007
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47. EDUCATION - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
New translation vividly depicts postwar Tokyo
Nov. 27, 2007
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48. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
HEIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Has another society of such superlatives ever existed at all?
Aug. 12, 2007
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49. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan's Paradise Lived
Aug. 12, 2007
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50. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan's love affairs with sex
April 29, 2007
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