Tag: japan
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Coronavirus and the Olympics
Robert Whiting (April 2008) – Yukan Fuji When I arrived in Tokyo in 1962, working for the CIA as a 19-year-old member of the U.S. military, the city was an unsightly sprawl of ramshackle wooden houses, rickety shanties and cheaply constructed stucco-covered buildings that had mushroomed from the wartime detritus left by American B-29 Superfortress bombers. Living conditions…
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Japanese Baseball’s ‘Wa’ Factor – International Herald Tribune
July 18 1989 The image below can be expanded by clicking on it
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Japan’s No-Strike Zone – The New York Times
By Robert Whiting (10 Oct, 1994) The long baseball season is finally at an end. On Oct. 22, the two league champions will face each other in the first game of the annual best-of-seven fall classic to determine the professional baseball championship. Although tickets are all but sold out, millions of viewers will be able…
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Tokyo Junkie’s Current Activities and New Book – Interview with the English Journal (EJ) on Tape
1993, issue 6 You can enlarge the images below by clicking on them.
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Author Robert Whiting Tries to Decipher True Meaning of Ichiro – Asahi Weekly
31 October 2004 You can click on the images below to enlarge them.
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The Samurai of Summer (Wa) – The New York Times Book Review
11 June 1989 The image below can be enlarged by clicking it.
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