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The Value of Peace

Nippon Tico — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:01:36 +0000

Cambodia is a country that is far from healing the wounds of its recent and violent past. People still leave in great fear that horrors similar to those of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge might one day...

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No Longer A Criminal

Nippon Tico — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:01:15 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I had to make a photocopy of my passport. When I turned to the page containing my Japanese visa I realized that it had expired the day before. I had mistakenly assumed that it...

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One-Minute Beauty

Nippon Tico — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:53:10 +0000

A few days ago I accidentally found the Beautiful Women Clock (美人時計： bijin-tokei). The site does not indicate what its objective is or why it was created. The only thing one knows is that every...

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Gaijin and the Police

Nippon Tico — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:48:24 +0000

Japanese cops are usually very nice and the National Police has been, for a great many years, one of the most respected and trusted institutions in this country. Despite this, among some segments of...

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Sarujento Naito

Nippon Tico — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:37:30 +0000

A couple of weeks ago some friends met in Roppongi (六本木 ) to bid farewell to another friend that was leaving Japan for good. After dinner, the women in the group wanted to go dancing. But it turned...

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Being Ultraman Is Hard

Nippon Tico — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:57:14 +0000

My daughter is very fond of Ultraman, especially the eight brothers (Ultraman, Ultra Seven, Jack, Gaia, Mebius, Ace, Dyna, Tiga). She has taught me that, despite their powers, it is not easy to be an...

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Batsu

Nippon Tico — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:29:46 +0000

My daughter’s pet goldfish got sick a few days ago. Even though my wife did all she could to make sure the fish got its health back, we prepared our kid for the possibility her pet might die,...

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A Bridge & An Earthquake

Nippon Tico — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:01:58 +0000

The day before yesterday, as I watched the 7 p.m. news broadcast, I felt indignation, rather than amazement, when I saw that the damage caused by the August 11 earthquake along a stretch of the Tōmei...

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Manners, Deities and Hanging Clothes

Nippon Tico — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:53:35 +0000

The day before yesterday, my daughter and her classmates went around visiting homes near their kindergarden. They were delivering their own hand-made thank you cards to those houses that a week...

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Efficiency begins at home

Nippon Tico — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:37:26 +0000

I have been informed by a friend that La Nación, Costa Rica’s second most important newspaper, has put a link to a Japanese video on how to get a kid ready for school in five minutes. Within...

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