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Fat in Japan? You're breaking the law.

TOKYO, Japan — In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law. So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki Yabe, 39, a manager at a major transportation corporation, went on a ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, Global Post,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Safeway Inc.

Politics meets porn in Japan

“The party had been very male-oriented, very heirarchical,” Tanioka said. “When Ozawa became premier, he decided to alter it. … The DPJ tried to recruit women candidates from local politicians. We had a series of seminars for women legislators from ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, Global Post,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Liberal Democratic Party,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Ichiro Ozawa

Cash for kids in Japan

Furthermore, women without children wonder if the money would be better spent on increasing the number of day care centers and other methods to help women return to work after giving birth. TOKYO, Japan — In the country with the lowest birth rate in ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, Global Post,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Japan Airlines

Japan's cubicle sluggers

The scene at the Tokyo Dome over the past two weeks showed how much pride companies take in their teams. Thousands of fans, sweating in their business suits, waited for up to an hour in lines snaking around the stadium. Brass bands played fight songs, ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, Global Post,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Nissan

What is D.C. Mayor Fenty Doing Behind the Wheel?

Since news broke that he received a speeding ticket in May and, this month, got into a fender-bender, there is debate about whether D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty should be driving himself through the city or relying on a security detail like the other big- ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, The Washington Post,  16 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Martin O'Malley,  Anthony A. Williams,  McDonald's,  Mark Plotkin

In Tokyo, A Culinary Search for the Fountain of Youth

It is there that Yoshinari serves up bowl after bowl of steaming nabe, or hot pot, a hearty soup of chicken, cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, onions and mizuna, a peppery mustard green. Nabe has long been a staple of Japanese cuisine, but Yoshinari's ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, The Washington Post,  30 Jul 2009

Greater Washington 2050 Coalition Poll Finds Residents Intent on Schools, Safety

A telephone poll conducted in February on behalf of the Greater Washington 2050 Coalition, made up of government, business and planning officials led by the Metropolitan Washington Council on Governments, also reflects concerns that could be ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, The Washington Post,  1 May 2009
Related Topics: Prince William

For Fenty and Kaine, Disclosure of Travel Plans Opens View on Governing Styles

When Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine departed last week for seven days in Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, it appeared to be just the kind of jaunt that has recently exposed another area public official to a heavy dose of criticism. Much as ...

From ANITA KUMAR AND DAVID NAKAMURA, The Washington Post,  25 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Adrian M Fenty,  Martin O'Malley

Mother, Daughter Accused of Embezzling Money From Blind Vendors in D.C.

A Bowie mother and daughter who managed a D.C. government program aimed at employing blind vendors were indicted yesterday on charges of embezzling $281,000, much of which was supposed to be paid to the vendors, who were working at snack bars, ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA, The Washington Post,  25 Apr 2009

Emancipation Day, a D.C. Government Holiday, Still Surprises After 4 Years

The office was closed, no one was around, and his girlfriend, who had dropped him off, had driven away. Campbell looked around, unsure where to go. So it was on Emancipation Day, a D.C. government holiday established in 2005 that hasn't exactly seeped ...

From DAVID NAKAMURA AND HAMIL R. HARRIS, The Washington Post,  17 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Anthony A. Williams,  Abraham Lincoln,  Adrian M Fenty,  U.S. Congress

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