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  • No More Space for the Dead - A story about cremation, ancestors, aging, and the infrastructure needs that keep getting put off.

    No More Space for the Dead - A story about cremation, ancestors, aging, and the infrastructure needs that keep getting put off.
    2026/10/17

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: A story about youth, pressure, and what happens when a society's children decide it is easier to talk to a machine than to the adults around them.

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    11 分
  • Thirty-Seven Days - Japan is living through climate change in real time — and the bill is starting to arrive

    Thirty-Seven Days - Japan is living through climate change in real time — and the bill is starting to arrive
    2026/10/03

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: thirty-seven days of rain, a rice market swinging between shortage and glut, and fish that have simply stopped showing up.

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    11 分
  • Please Have Exact Change - Why Japan is both the most and least digital country on Earth.

    Please Have Exact Change - Why Japan is both the most and least digital country on Earth.
    2026/09/05

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: a story about analog and digital Japan, and what happens when a society that perfected the old has to decide whether to embrace the new.

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    11 分
  • Accommodating Needs - A story about why people now tap their phones at the convenience store

    Accommodating Needs - A story about why people now tap their phones at the convenience store
    2026/09/12

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: how Japan went from one of the world's most cash-dependent societies to one of its most complex payment ecosystems.

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    13 分
  • Should the Johns be Arrested? - Japan's prostitution law and the gender gap at its heart.

    Should the Johns be Arrested? - Japan's prostitution law and the gender gap at its heart.
    2026/09/19

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: Japan's seventy-year-old prostitution law is finally under review, and the debate it has opened reveals something uncomfortable about who the law was always designed to protect.

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    10 分
  • Struggling through the Silence - Why Japan's children are telling AI what they won't tell their teachers

    Struggling through the Silence - Why Japan's children are telling AI what they won't tell their teachers
    2026/09/26

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: A story about youth, pressure, and what happens when a society's children decide it is easier to talk to a machine than to the adults around them.

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    12 分
  • Cool Japan, Warm Losses - How Japan spent $340M promoting culture that didn't need help

    Cool Japan, Warm Losses - How Japan spent $340M promoting culture that didn't need help
    2026/08/23

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: Japan spent thirteen years and billions of yen trying to make itself cool — and this week the government finally admitted it didn't work.

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    10 分
  • Keeping the Sword Sharp - How Japan became a weapons exporter despite its peace constitution. - August 29, 2026

    Keeping the Sword Sharp - How Japan became a weapons exporter despite its peace constitution. - August 29, 2026
    2026/08/29

    Stories from Japan, told from Japan.

    This week: how a country whose constitution renounces war became one of the Indo-Pacific's most sought-after weapons suppliers — and why it had no choice.

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    10 分