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1. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Gokai: The more I know Japan, the thicker the fog
Nov. 4, 2009
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2. 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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3. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
The long road to identity
Oct. 11, 2009
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4. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
What's in a (Japanese) name?
Oct. 11, 2009
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5. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Sometimes everything just seems to go wrong
Oct. 7, 2009
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6. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Conservativism: hoshushugisha or hankakumeisha
Sept. 2, 2009
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7. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Heisei kids: a generation that struggles to dream
Aug. 5, 2009
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8. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Land of the Sun Goddess
July 12, 2009
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9. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Is boorish behavior a symptom of swine flu?
July 1, 2009
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10. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Back to basics: The choice of seihin or kinben
June 3, 2009
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11. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
A legal lesson: Taking on the (school) system
May 6, 2009
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12. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
A literary loner
April 26, 2009
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13. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Being a sukebe na sensei is tougher than it looks
April 1, 2009
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14. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Mothers-in-law: Our place or an ubasuteyama?
March 4, 2009
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15. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Refuge . . . of a sort
Feb. 22, 2009
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16. BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Offensive compliments: A drinker's sober lesson
Feb. 4, 2009
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17. BILINGUAL - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Modern childhood holds many a lesson for adults
Jan. 7, 2009
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18. 2008 MEDIA ROUND-UP - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Making sense of the strange changes of 2008
Dec. 28, 2008
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19. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Progress, and war, arrive
Dec. 14, 2008
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20. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Mystery shrouds the ancient Oshoro circle
Dec. 14, 2008
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21. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Stone Age Japan
Dec. 14, 2008
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22. BILINGUAL - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Keeping a close eye on the neighborhood news
Nov. 18, 2008
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23. 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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24. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Cipangu's landlocked isles
July 27, 2008
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25. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Was the 'Japanese Renaissance' lost at sea?
July 27, 2008
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26. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Sonoko
May 25, 2008
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27. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
One missionary's 'swamp' is another's 'religion allergy' challenge
Dec. 23, 2007
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28. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan's 'Hidden Christians'
Dec. 23, 2007
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29. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
From Bliss to blood
Dec. 23, 2007
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30. EDUCATION - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Translating full of judgment calls, compromises
Dec. 4, 2007
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31. EDUCATION - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
New translation vividly depicts postwar Tokyo
Nov. 27, 2007
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32. 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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33. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan's Paradise Lived
Aug. 12, 2007
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34. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan's love affairs with sex
April 29, 2007
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35. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
The Courtship
Jan. 28, 2007
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36. EDUCATION - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Translations blunted by discarded 'somethings'
Jan. 23, 2007
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37. CONFUCIUS - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
East and West echo the sage: 'The ideal society is like a family'
Sept. 10, 2006
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38. CONFUCIUS - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
A man in the soul of Japan
Sept. 10, 2006
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39. CONFUCIUS - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Confucius and his 'golden age'
Sept. 10, 2006
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40. READERS IN COUNCIL - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Does an elitist education help?
June 7, 2006
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41. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
PILGRIMS' WAYS
On the road to . . .
April 30, 2006
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42. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Cultures combined in the mists of time
Jan. 29, 2006
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43. SHORT STORY - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Shinobazu Pond
Sept. 25, 2005
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44. OF NOTE - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Ben's Cafe poetry reading
Feb. 18, 2005
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45. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
UNDER THE LENS
Men or monkeys in 2004?
Dec. 26, 2004
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46. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Face to face from worlds far apart
June 1, 2003
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47. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Some sentiments just don't translate
May 11, 2003
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48. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Shaking off the shogun's shackles
May 11, 2003
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49. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Moon over Matsushima
May 11, 2003
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50. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Lock & key
March 30, 2003
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51. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
The lady explorer who took a native interest in Hokkaido
March 2, 2003
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52. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
The Great North
March 2, 2003
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53. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
DANGEROUS LIAISONS
Love in a lovelorn land
Sept. 15, 2002
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54. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Did Plato's Republic find a spiritual home in Japan?
Sept. 15, 2002
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55. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
The unbearable enlightenment of being
June 23, 2002
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56. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
All and nothing
June 23, 2002
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57. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Quiet after Otaru onsen storm
April 21, 2002
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58. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
War of the words
March 31, 2002
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59. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Japan and competition: You gotta have 'wa'?
Feb. 17, 2002
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60. LIFE IN JAPAN - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Time catches up with old men and the sea
Jan. 13, 2002
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61. THE PARENT TRIP - MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Remember always -- graduation day
July 6, 2001
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