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Forum: Falling on your feet – A lesson in Japanese shoe etiquette
Forum: Look! No steering column! – Japan’s Ideas Olympics
Village vote rocks Japan’s nuclear industry
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Foreign aid lifts Japan’s supersonic ambitions
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Japan to send gunboat to Sellafield
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Technology
Technology: Fire delays flight of Japan’s rocket
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Japanese team latches onto an antibody that shows promise against HIV
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No bells for Japan: 快猫短视频s don’t win Nobel prizes for perfecting the video recorder or devising a new manufacturing process, no matter how creative the effort involved. If they did, our image of Japanese science and technology would be very different
Features
Greening of Industry: Japanese industry joins the act – Companies in Japan have reacted with characteristic speed and adaptability to the new markets opened up by environmental concerns
Features
More muddle than master plan / Review of ‘Trojan Horse: the ultimate Japanese challenge to Western industry’ by Barrie G. James
Books & Arts
Technology
Technology: Battle to win the world’s greatest memory contest
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Insider criticises Japan’s scientific orthodoxy
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