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• For Japan, a Long, Slow Slide

  Published: February 3, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: For, Japan, Long, Slow, Slide, Japan, Matsumoto, China, Asia, Hiroko Ota, Hiromichi Shirakawa, Tokyo, India, Credit Suisse Group, Monex Inc, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc, Nomura Holdings Inc, Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp, Toyota Motor Corporation, Akiko Yamamoto, Junichiro Koizu

  TOKYO -- As the United States frets noisily about a recession, Japan is quietly enduring a far more fundamental economic slide, one that seems irreversible.

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• Read Japanese News

  Published: July 21, 2008, 12:34 am

  Tags: Useful Stuff, Daily, Japan, Japanese, Learn Japanese, Mainichi, Newspaper, Online, Shimbun, Shinbun, Yomiuri

  I officially declare this Shimbun Week. Be on the lookout for more articles about Japanese News. See ya.

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• Online Newspaper Review: The Daily Yomiuri

  Published: July 22, 2008, 12:47 am

  Tags: Newspapers, Reviews, Websites, Daily, Japan, Japanese, Learn Japanese, Mainichi, Newspaper, Online, Rikai, Shimbun, Shinbun, Yomiuri

  The Daily Yomiuri is available in English and Japanese . To read the Japanese version, I recommend utilizing Rikai.com’s reading tool . Alright, I just had a long day at work, so I’m just gonna get right to it. Ease of Use: 8 The big thing working against The Daily Yomiuri is that the articles aren’t directly

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• A Word on the Mainichi Daily Scandal

  Published: July 23, 2008, 12:52 am

  Tags: Newspapers, Useful Stuff, Daily, Japan, Japanese, Learn Japanese, Mainichi, Newspaper, Online, Shimbun, Shinbun, Waiwai, Yomiuri

  Japanese moms do fellation to her son of junior high school student to make him study. Japanese housewives do prostitution in the coin shower in suburbs. The nurse in Japan is lewder than the prostitute. 55% of the women in Japan sleep with men on the day at the first time of meet. Japanese teens are screwing (having sex) like

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• Online Newspaper Review: Mainichi Daily News

  Published: July 24, 2008, 12:37 am

  Tags: Newspapers, Reviews, Daily, Japan, Japanese, Learn Japanese, Mainichi, News, Newspaper, Online, Review, Shimbun, Shinbun, Yomiuri

  Okay, so now the we don’t have to talk about scandal anymore, lets take a good look at this paper. Ease of Use:5 Right now, there is no English site. So you’ll have to struggle through with Rikai or some other reading tool and see how you do. Generally it’s a lot like the Yomiuri in that the articles are very

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• So You Think You Can Read The Paper

  Published: July 26, 2008, 11:28 pm

  Tags: Newspapers, Daily, Japan, Japanese, Jouyou, Kanji, Learn Japanese, Mainichi, Newspaper, Online, Quiz, Sakoku, Shimbun, Shinbun, Yomiuri

  Well….good luck. Reading the newspaper in Japan requires an absurdly high level of kanji-fluency, making it very difficult for foreigners to read it. This makes sense with the Japanese (sakoku) mindset. Sakoku refers to National isolation and the exclusion of foreigners. Japan was sakoku for many years, so a lot of

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