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1. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Children pay the price when parents put their own feelings first
Nov. 15, 2009
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2. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Reading between the lines of Hatoyama's far-sighted 'vision thing'
Nov. 8, 2009
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3. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan's sea change should signal a new course for the media, too
Nov. 1, 2009
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4. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
'Mao's Last Dancer' inspires with his leaps and honest grounding
Oct. 25, 2009
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5. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Obama exclusive: Soda-pop war looms in Americans' best interests
Oct. 18, 2009
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6. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Musical hails a messenger killed for exposing Japan's dread trinity
Oct. 11, 2009
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7. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan's gender equality may be 'insufficent,' but it's surely coming
Oct. 4, 2009
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8. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Is it better to end in 'beautiful madness' than quicksands of banality?
Sept. 27, 2009
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9. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Now suicide has become a political issue, how will Japan address it?
Sept. 20, 2009
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10. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Tanikawa: A master of foreign ways and Japan's most accessible poet
Sept. 13, 2009
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11. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Nosaka's 'Dugout' captures war trauma through a child's eyes
Sept. 6, 2009
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12. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan at a crossroads of government and of its citizens' values
Aug. 30, 2009
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13. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Obama hails Lincoln — but is he on course to fail the LBJ way?
Aug. 23, 2009
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14. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japanese attacks provoked a seismic 'me-too' shift Down Under
Aug. 16, 2009
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15. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Humor may be universal, but Japan's is largely its smut-free own
Aug. 9, 2009
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16. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Comparing and contrasting to plumb the heights of Japanese humor
Aug. 2, 2009
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17. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Myth-buster points the way to Japan's role as 'credit-crunch' pioneer
July 26, 2009
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18. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
To be human in today's Japan, is it best to be 'no longer human'?
July 19, 2009
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19. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Crimes happen, but are the criminals 'one of us' or 'one of them'?
July 12, 2009
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20. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Double standards fly high when it comes to bombing of civilians
July 5, 2009
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21. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Jokichi Takamine: a man with fire in his belly whatever the odds
June 28, 2009
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22. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Tokyo spurned in the 'ultra miracle' of new film's linguistic embrace
June 21, 2009
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23. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
To make an Israeli omelet is it necessary to break so many eggs?
June 14, 2009
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24. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
What price heroism for indoctrinated fighters in unjust wars?
June 7, 2009
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25. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Was Japan's first Western screen star shameful to his homeland?
May 24, 2009
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26. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
1989: A year of hopes turned sour that we all must live with today
May 17, 2009
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27. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Manchukuo tragedy finally gets a film its spurned victims deserve
May 10, 2009
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28. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
It's tough times for type — but too soon to write off newspapers yet
May 3, 2009
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29. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Like it or not, becoming bilingual involves being bicultural, too
April 26, 2009
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30. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Soviet-era trove shows that photos never lie, except when they do
April 19, 2009
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31. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
London trauma points with relief to a convenient truth about Japan
April 5, 2009
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32. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan shows how a good's no good unless it's a character good
March 29, 2009
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33. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Raising bilingual children takes time, huge effort — and lotsa money
March 22, 2009
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34. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Now that the Celtic tiger's turned tail, whither the Emerald Isle?
March 15, 2009
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35. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
As prospects darken, Japan's voters need that vision thing again
March 8, 2009
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36. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Obama please note: Those who fail to 'master the past' are guilty, too
March 1, 2009
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37. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Shiftless apathy to the victims makes all Japanese guilty for the past
Feb. 22, 2009
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38. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Do Japanese yet realize that culture's acquired, not in the blood?
Feb. 15, 2009
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39. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
In an 'Era of Decline,' let's look to youth to quell 'panic of the mind'
Feb. 8, 2009
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40. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
The day the music died America's apple-pie order began to crumble
Feb. 1, 2009
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41. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Her poems speak sublimely of Akiko Yosano's life of many passions
Jan. 25, 2009
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42. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Dialing up the decider one last time before he leaves the Oval Office
Jan. 18, 2009
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43. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Egg-on-face bloopers can make a yolk or worse of any translation
Jan. 11, 2009
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44. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
A nation adrift cries out for new visions fired by anger and sorrow
Jan. 4, 2009
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45. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
'The noise of time' ensures that art's unbowed spirit is heard
Dec. 28, 2008
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46. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
To conform at times is neither a Japanese diktat nor a sellout of self
Dec. 21, 2008
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47. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan's prime minister isn't choosy about who his gaffes target
Dec. 14, 2008
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48. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Past events' bloodstained light casts a long and lasting shadow
Dec. 7, 2008
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49. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Every Japanese is party to their state's 'barbaric' legal murders
Nov. 30, 2008
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50. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Judging Japanese architecture as the epitome of environmental art
Nov. 23, 2008
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