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Wired October 22, 2007 Daniel H. Pink	Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex Manga, a uniquely Japanese comic art form, is flourishing everywhere but in Japan.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 Rich Duprey	Japan Is Serious About Alzheimer's While Britain limits access, Japan expands coverage of the top-selling treatment for Alzheimer's. Japan's regulators made the decision following a six-month study comparing Aricept with a placebo.
Wired August 21, 2007 Brian Ashcraft	Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: Eye-Popping, Over-Engineered Lashes Hip teens are hitting the Tokyo Lash Bar in the city's Omotesando district for eye-poppingly over-engineered fake lashes.
Reason July 2007 Kerry Howley	Japan Draws Its Guns Meet the world's cutest imperialist: For years Prince Pickles and his girlfriend, Parsley-chan, have been spreading warm, fuzzy feelings about Japan's military.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 John Boyd	UPDATE: More Problems at Quake-hit Nuclear Plant Ten days after a deadly earthquake damaged the world's most powerful nuclear complex, the list of incidents and shut downs has risen to 63. The Japanese government is receiving strong criticism from academic experts on design flaws.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 Rich Duprey	The Answer to Japan's Enron The scandals that shook investors' trust in Japan's executives have led to a new law. Investors everywhere ought to benefit from the greater transparency that will result.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 John Boyd	Quake-Hit Nuclear Plant Shut Down Indefinitely Three days after a deadly earthquake caused damage to the world's most powerful nuclear complex, experts determined that the Tokyo-area Kashiwazaki Kariwa facility may be located on a previously undetected extension of a major fault line.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007	Slideshow: Scenes of Tokyo Photos of the Japanese city's earthquake-wary infrastructure.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Jean Kumagai	How to Master a Seismic Disaster When the next big earthquake hits Tokyo, engineers bet even a few seconds can save lives.
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever	Earthquakes, Tsunamis Strike Japan A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, at least four of which were above magnitude 6.0, according to the USGS.
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