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Tokyo Station Kitchen Street: Vimon (Japanese Black Beef)
Today I went with Mr. M to Vimon, a Japanese Black beef steak and hamburger restaurant. The menu combines meat and vegetables à la carte, and even small side dishes cost about ¥500…
A Recommendation for Wordplay
How wonderfully lovely it is that lovers exchange poems by mobile phone. I am enraptured. (Floating Island 2004/11/28) Exactly. Mobile phones are often treated as enemies, but from…
In the Cold Wind
Lunar calendar, October 16: when I went outside in the evening, a full moon was floating above the trees.The surroundings were already dim, and the moon floated there, pale and rou…
A Ray of Hope for Treating Viruses?!
15-Year-Old Girl with Rabies Makes Miraculous Recovery Through Drug Treatment Alone WASHINGTON—With no effective treatment available for rabies, a disease said to be fatal in 100%…
Nomura Research Institute to Assess Employees’ “Compliance Capabilities” Online
Starting in December, Nomura Research Institute will offer companies a paid service that assesses how well employees understand compliance (adherence to laws and regulations). It p…
The Troubling Decline in Japanese Language Proficiency
A survey by Professor Hiroshi Ono (communication science) and others at the National Institute of Multimedia Education, an independent administrative agency in Chiba, found that un…
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