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Convenience store woman: Lady Gaga urges Japanese to work at FamilyMart
From the Financial Times
Oct 11
3
Tourism as Currency Policy
Japan set a July arrivals record and lost a tenth of its visitors in August. The number the tourism apparatus was built to move is a different one.
Oct 6
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Christopher Gerteis
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The High Price of Hospitality
The Social Cost of Mass Tourism: Exhaustion, Burnout, and Fatigue
Apr 6, 2025
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Christopher Gerteis
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The High Price of Hospitality
Apr 6, 2025
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Christopher Gerteis
15
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Foreign Faces, Familiar Fears: Immigration, Race, and the 2025 Upper-House Election
Jul 7, 2025
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Christopher Gerteis
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Xenophobic Rhetoric in the 2025 House of Councillors Campaigns
Jul 19, 2025
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Christopher Gerteis
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Japan Ministry Proposes Closing 40% of Private Universities: More Than Half Fail to Fill Freshman Quotas
May 24
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Christopher Gerteis
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A Brief History of Japanese Imperialism
Jan 11
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Christopher Gerteis
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Recruiting Japanese Youth: The Rise of Dark Part-Time Jobs
Oct 17, 2025
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Christopher Gerteis
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Japan’s Emperor, Empress Visit Ghibli Park
From The Yomiuri Shimbun
Sep 22
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Media Misfire
The opening of Tokyo’s arms export market this year has been framed as a story about pacifism. The business story is going largely unreported, and it…
Sep 3
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Christopher Gerteis
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Hokkaido’s Pumpkins Grown Mid-Air
from The Yomiuri Shimbun
Sep 1
1
Lawson Lowers Price of Onigiri
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Aug 26
3
Large Volume of Shokupan Found Abandoned in Mt. Daisen Area in Japan’s Tottori Prefecture
From the Yomiuri Shimbun
Aug 22
3
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The Prime Minister Did Not Visit Yasukuni
On 15 August, Takaichi Sanae worshipped at Yasukuni from a car park six hundred meters away. Her non-visit was built to pass a fifty-year-old test her…
Aug 17
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Christopher Gerteis
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Torafugu Stocks in Areas of Western Japan Dramatically Drop: Fishermen Push Back on Quota Proposal
From the Yomiuri Shimbun
Aug 15
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