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Wednesday, May 2, 2001
First Impressions
Columnist Peter McKillop first discovered Japan through books and television. Then he moved there
Wednesday, April 26, 2001
Geishas & Godzillas
Photo Essay: Which is odder -- the image of Japan in Hollywood movies or the image of Japan
in its own films?
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Pure Art
Photo Essay: Japanese fashion designers have revolutionized clothes -- and thrill crowds each year at Paris Fashion Week -- but none head a major Western fashion house. Why?
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Generation Gap
A Korean boy's love of Japanese animation stokes memories of wartime occupation in his grandmother
Monday, April 23, 2001
Through His Son's Eyes
TIME's Tim Larimer found raising his young son, Jack, in Tokyo took some time to get used to
Friday, April 20, 2001
Do You Take This Man?
Being the wife of a foreigner in Japan has its ups and down, says TIME reporter Hiroko Tashiro
Friday, April 20, 2001
Discovering Her True Self
TIME's Sachiko Sakamaki didn't realize she was Japanese -- until she moved to America at age 23
Friday, April 20, 2001
Kobans and Robbers
An obscure Japanese import is racing across America -- reducing crime and increasing safety along the way
Thursday, April 19, 2001
Exceptions to the Rule
It's easy to see Japan as dull and boring, says TIME's Ginny Parker, but below the surface is another world
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Why...You...Lazy Octopus!
Japanese curse words lose something in the translation
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
My Japan
TIME correspondent Donald Macintyre spent 12 years in Japan--and found a country less than frank and open
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
'The Hardest Part Is Wearing a Kimono for Hours on End'
TIME talks to Liza Dalby, the first and only Westerner to become a geisha
Friday, April 13, 2001
'They're the Backbone of this Nation'
Japanese women are more than cute faces who know how to dress, argues columnist Peter McKillop
Thursday, April 12, 2001
'I Admire Their Attention to Detail and Quality'
Brazilian-born Carlos Ghosn on reinventing Nissan, bridging cultural gaps, and learning Japanese
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MAGAZINE APRIL 30, 2001, VOL.157 NO.17
Our Contributors
IAN BURUMA is the author of many books on Asia, including A Japanese Mirror and The Wages of Guilt. His latest, Bad Elements, will be published at the end of the year.
RICHARD CORLISS, a TIME film critic, saw his first Japanese film in 1956. It was Godzilla, of course.
PICO IYER is the author of six books, most recently The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home. A writer for TIME since 1982, he has lived in Japan off and on since 1987. His book The Lady and the Monk is about his first year in Kyoto.
KARL TARO GREENFELD is the deputy editor of TIME Asia and the author of Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation. His next book, on Asian subcultures, will be published next year.
WILLIAM GIBSON coined the word cyberspace in 1981. The author most recently of All Tomorrow's Parties, he is fond of obsessively specialized Japanese hobby magazines.
JAMES GRANT, founding general partner of Nippon Partners, left Barron's in 1983 to start a twice-monthly financial periodical, Grant's Interest Rate Observer. He is the author of four books, including The Trouble with Prosperity (1996).
MATT REES, TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief, journeyed to the Golan Heights to interview Japanese peacekeepers.
JAY MCINERNEY's second novel, Ransom (1985), was based on his two-year sojourn in Japan. His first book, Bright Lights, Big City, has been translated into 20 languages. His other works include Brightness Falls (1993) and Model Behavior (1998).
NATALIE WARADY, who formerly covered fashion, film and sporting events in France, is now a freelance feature writer in New York City. She returned to Paris for this issue.
ROBERT WHITING is the author of two books about baseball: You Gotta Have Wa and Chrysanthemum and the Bat. His most recent work is Tokyo Underworld.
HANNAH BEECH, who is half Japanese but hates Hello Kitty, is a correspondent for TIME in Beijing.
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