Clothed, clean, and homeless in Japan
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TOKYO - Retirement comes in January. That's when Katsunori Hamahara turns 65, when his government pension kicks in, and when he will be able to afford a place to live.
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The Internet, husbands who help with  housework, and merit-based pay are helping Japanese women find  a formula for balancing careers and families.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In the living room, the group gathers to share inspirational stories about the joy of finding just the right previously owned shower curtain. To the uninitiated, these people appear almost normal, at least in a San Francisco kind of way. But upon closer inspection, you see it: Nothing in this house, nothing on their bodies, none of their products -- nothing is new. Everything is used....
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Japan on Wednesday brushed aside calls from US lawmakers for a fresh apology to wartime sex slaves, even as the former &quot;comfort women&quot; renewed their demands for Tokyo to acknowledge their plight.
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Cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.
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When Yutaka Takahashi strolls around his neighborhood in Japan's capital, he sometimes wonders where all the children have gone.
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Is Japan the most tired country on earth? You certainly get that idea by riding the great Tokyo subway system.
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Unlike its hipster namesake, the Tokyo neighborhood known as 'Grannie's Harajuku' is a kind of SoHo for seniors, with lessons for retailers everywhere
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Exercising is a problem for Tokyo gals. Manga club meetings and cram school fill up their free time, and there's no money for a gym membership after paying for cell phone bills and Pocky snacks.
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The first American outpost of A Bathing Ape, the urban street wear chain that has been wildly popular in Japan for over a decade, just opened in SoHo.
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Craving sex after repeated rejection by their partners, women who felt doomed to join Japan's growing ranks of the &quot;sexless&quot; are being offered a prescription: a squad of well-dressed men ready to assist free of charge.
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In a sign of JapanÂs rapidly graying society, convenience stores once associated with the young are being transformed for the elderly.
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By Aranee Jaiimsin, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb.
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SHENZHEN, China -- Sweating in the bright afternoon sun, the men and women stand on the sides of the roads like homeless people clutching wrinkled cardboard signs. Waving the boards, the real estate agents call out to cars zooming by.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Dozens of half-naked men rolled around in the snow in a ritualized brawl at a temple in northern Japan, as one of the country's raciest festivals defied a row over posters featuring a hairy, bare-chested reveler.
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In San Francisco, there is a man picking his nose on a street corner; at Stanford University, there are a couple sunbathing in bikinis; in Miami, there is a group of protesters carrying signs outside an abortion clinic.
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Japan's majestic peak is also home to tons of discarded trash. FUJIKAWAGUCHI, Japan -- If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.