The tradition of hanami involves observing the fleeting beauty of nature—and offers an important lesson about the importance ...

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I felt like part of a community in Japan My everyday work life was in a quiet suburb of Tokyo called Hidaka. I made a comfortable, mostly tax-free, salary of about $2,500 a month, or 300,000 yen ...

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is used everywhere in Japanese daily life. You can find Gengo on calendars, newspapers, currency and more. Professor Kenneth Ruoff of Portland University has studied Japan's Imperial system since ...