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1. CLOSE-UP: Yukari Horie - TOMOKO OTAKE
Making life easier for working moms
March 3, 2013
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2. CLOSE-UP: Yu Negoro - TOMOKO OTAKE
Documenting the gender imbalance
March 3, 2013
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3. CLOSE-UP: Maco Yoshioka - TOMOKO OTAKE
Battling the postpartum blues
March 3, 2013
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4. CLOSE-UP: Maco Yoshioka, Yu Negoro, Yukari Horie - TOMOKO OTAKE
Japanese women strive to empower themselves
March 3, 2013
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5. CLOSE-UP: Hidetoshi Masunaga - TOMOKO OTAKE
Making revolution through the Constitution
Feb. 3, 2013
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6. CLOSE-UP: Fred Schodt - EDAN CORKILL
Frederik Schodt: Japan's pop culture ambassador to the world
Jan. 6, 2013
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7. CLOSE-UP: Michael Woodford - DAVID HICKEY
Japan's whistle-blower supreme speaks out
Dec. 2, 2012
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8. CLOSE-UP: Yoshiko Tatsumi - TOMOKO OTAKE
Cookery guru serves wisdom with her soups
Nov. 4, 2012
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9. CLOSE-UP: Shigesato Itoi - SETSUKO KAMIYA
Shigesato Itoi shares lots of 'delicious life'
Oct. 7, 2012
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10. CLOSE-UP: Satoshi Tsumabuki - NOBUKO TANAKA
Film star Satoshi Tsumabuki moves up to a new stage
Sept. 2, 2012
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11. CLOSE-UP: David Atkinson - TOMOKO OTAKE
Ancient Japan captures money man's interest
Aug. 5, 2012
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12. CLOSE-UP: Lesley Downer - VICTORIA JAMES
Author Lesley Downer's romance with Japan is no fleeting affair
July 1, 2012
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13. CLOSE-UP: Koki Mitani - NOBUKO TANAKA
Japan's Mr. Comedy
June 3, 2012
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14. CLOSE-UP: Chanel president Japan, Richard Collasse - ERIKO ARITA
Richard Collasse: Sold on brand Japan
May 6, 2012
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15. CLOSE-UP: Naohiko Jinno - TOMOKO OTAKE
Master of public finance brings life to numbers
April 1, 2012
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16. CLOSE-UP: Taro Yamamoto - ERIKO ARITA
Actor in the spotlight of Japan's antinuke movement
March 4, 2012
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17. CLOSE-UP: Mickey Curtis - MARK SCHILLING
Mickey Curtis: from rocker to 'Robo-G'
Feb. 5, 2012
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18. CLOSE-UP: Mayumi Kagita - ERIKO ARITA
A fusion of cultures revealed in dance
Jan. 1, 2012
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19. CLOSE-UP: Tenten Hosokawa - TOMOKO OTAKE
Drawing the blues away
Dec. 4, 2011
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20. CLOSE-UP: Kiyoshi Nakabayashi - EDAN CORKILL
Ex-Tokyo cop speaks out on a life fighting gangs — and what you can do
Nov. 6, 2011
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21. CLOSE-UP: Satoshi Kamata - ERIKO ARITA
Rebel spirit writ large
Oct. 2, 2011
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22. CLOSE-UP: Alfons Deeken - ERIKO ARITA
Priest-philosopher makes death his life's work
Sept. 4, 2011
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23. CLOSE-UP: Tadanori Yokoo - EDAN CORKILL
An artist by design
Aug. 7, 2011
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24. CLOSE-UP: Kotaro Horiuchi - EDAN CORKILL
A life spent in uncharted waters of boat design
July 3, 2011
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25. CLOSE-UP: Amon Miyamoto - NOBUKO TANAKA
Globe-trotting dramatist seeks new horizons
June 5, 2011
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26. CLOSE-UP: ATSUKO MURAKI - TOMOKO OTAKE
Fighter for justice
May 1, 2011
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27. CLOSE-UP: Tadao Sato - EDAN CORKILL
'Japan's single finest film critic'
March 6, 2011
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28. CLOSE-UP: Yang Sok Gil - ERIKO ARITA
Writing about wrongs at home and abroad
Feb. 6, 2011
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29. CLOSE-UP: MATSUMOTO KUSHIRO IX - EDAN CORKILL
A lifetime of kabuki
Dec. 5, 2010
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30. CLOSE-UP: Mika Tsutsumi - EMI URABE and NAOKO FUJIMURA
Miniskirts hit Mount Fuji as 'yama girls' take on trekking
Nov. 9, 2010
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31. CLOSE-UP: Noriko Hama - TOMOKO OTAKE
Scholar brings economics to life
Nov. 7, 2010
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32. CLOSE-UP: Masumi Kuwata - TOMOKO OTAKE
Pitching for change
Sept. 5, 2010
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33. CLOSE-UP: Lee Ufan - EDAN CORKILL
Korean at the forefront of Japan's modern art
Aug. 1, 2010
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34. CLOSE-UP - TOMOKO OTAKE
Manga's Cinderella story
July 4, 2010
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35. CLOSE-UP: RENHO - TOMOKO OTAKE
Japan's fiscal firebrand
May 2, 2010
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36. CLOSE-UP: Mika Tsutsumi - ERIKO ARITA
Spotlight on the States
April 4, 2010
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37. CLOSE-UP: YOSHIHARU FUKUHARA - EDAN CORKILL
'Mr. Shiseido' blends beauty and business
March 7, 2010
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38. CLOSE-UP - NOBUKO TANAKA
Brushing with authority
Feb. 7, 2010
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39. CLOSE-UP: Jake Adelstein - MARK SCHREIBER
Insider reaching out
Jan. 3, 2010
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40. CLOSE-UP: Susan Schmidt - TOMOKO OTAKE
Honored U.S. beacon for Japan
Nov. 1, 2009
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41. CLOSE-UP: Mamoru Mohri - EDAN CORKILL
A spaceman speaks
Oct. 4, 2009
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42. CLOSE-UP: Donald Keene - ERIKO ARITA
Keene: A life lived true to the words
Sept. 6, 2009
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43. CLOSE-UP: Sokun Tsushimoto - TOMOKO OTAKE
Caring for body and soul
Aug. 2, 2009
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44. CLOSE-UP: Motoko Inagawa - EDAN CORKILL
Japan's foreign-talent guru shares her worldly wisdoms
July 5, 2009
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45. CLOSE-UP: Kang Sang Jung - ERIKO ARITA
Born but not Bred
June 7, 2009
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46. CLOSE-UP: Manabu Miyazaki - TOMOKO OTAKE
Outsider looking in
May 3, 2009
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47. CLOSE-UP: Hiroshi Mikitani - EDAN CORKILL
Retail revolutionary
April 5, 2009
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48. CLOSE-UP: Kazuyo Katsuma - ERIKO ARITA
Of money and motherhood
March 1, 2009
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49. CLOSE-UP: Chizu Saeki - TOMOKO OTAKE
Beauty's more than skin deep
Feb. 1, 2009
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50. CLOSE-UP: Mino Monta - DAVID McNEILL and MIGUEL QUINTANA
Japan's 'Mr. Television'
Jan. 4, 2009
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