What Japanese women want: a Western husband
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Women now entering their 30s want prospective partners willing to break from traditional gender roles.
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Western knockoffs and Islamic bling: Debunking some popular stereotypes of life in Iran.
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Gallery: The Japanese have been making mechanical men for a long time, from medieval clockwork dolls to modern-day marvels both real and fictional. It's all on view in a Tokyo art exhibit.
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BANGKOK, Feb 12 (Reuters Life!) - Still searching for a Valentine's date? Have a penchant for muscular torsos, crew cuts and tattoos?
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TOKYO : The Japanese government hopes to make changes to the constitution that will allow a woman to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne within &quot;several years,&quot; a news report said.
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With a wedding ring on her finger and a party endorsement on her back, Kanako Otsuji is on a mission to become Japan&#39;s first openly gay member of parliament -- and change the way the country treats sexual minorities.
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BERLIN, Feb 6  (IPS) - "Living as a couple is the best dream come  true,"  Volker Lauer told IPS, referring to his five-year  relationship with Monika, who he met through a unique German  dating agency for the disabled.
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TOKYO  For a country that shut out foreigners for hundreds of years, Japan has proved strangely attractive for problem migrants of late.
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Japanese fathers should take more responsibility in family affairs, allowing females to better participate in the labor force, according to the visiting Finnish social affairs minister.
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Chinese-American Carnegie Wong and his Caucasian wife, Jane Bailey, are part of what their neighbor calls "the new American family." It's the family Carnegie says "was simply something we made. Something we chose." This multiculturalism is the heart of Gish Jen's novel The Love Wife.
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Five years ago Japanese women's rights advocates won their battle to legalize the birth control pill. Now they are waging an even tougher fight &#151; getting women to use it.
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When a newborn baby girl was left in  Japan&#39;s controversial &quot;baby hatch&quot; last week, the child&#39;s life  may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents  were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
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Conservatives keen to keep women from  ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne are hoping this week will  bring the answer to their prayers: the birth of Japan's first  imperial male heir in more than four decades.
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Desperate for a housewifeâs outfit? You can find it online.
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I've discovered why many women, especially single women with children, love Honda and Acura, the Japanese automobile manufacturer's luxury division.
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By MATT SLAGLE  DALLAS - The online dating service Match.com has decided to look overseas for some new corporate love interests.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Dec. 30, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. IVY CATHERINE Tomenio, along with her Japanese husband and their three young children, left their