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Mari’s Homemade Cooking RecipesHow to make Tonkatsu (Pork Cutlet) とんかつ Ingredients (4 servings): • 4 center cut pork chops • Salt and pepper • 1 cup of panko (Japanes...
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2013 America's Got Talent Winner2013 America's Got Talent Winner: Kenichi Ebina Sneak Preview On September 18th, 2013, dancer Kenichi Ebina became the first Japanese perfo...
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Travel to Southern CaliforniaSan Diego and Orange County TJ’S hotel reviewers and their bicultural families headed out to Southern California to scope out some of the ...
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Lifestyles
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Yoga Crosses CulturesON any given day I interact with people from around the world. I attend meetings with colleagues from France, the Philippines and Bangladesh...
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QUALITY TIMEWhat is the most beneficial way to reward your children? Buy them a new toy? Allow them to stay up later? Let them watch a special TV show? ...
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My Language Creates MeMy Language Creates Me By David Nunan I’VE never met Costica Bradatan, but I would like to. I recently came across a newspaper article he ...
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Music Gallery
Alice Cooper Photo RetrospectiveOn Tour with Bob GruenAlice Cooper RetrospectiveI first photographed Alice Cooper in 1971 when he played at the legendary Fillmore East in N...
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Capitalist Societies in the FutureWhat Will Happen in Capitalist Societies in the Future? Dialogue on the Future of Modern Civilization Human Society is Developing Dialecti...
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Editor's Insight
Garrity's JapanThe Open Road The following is a continuation of Robert Garrity’s story describing his walk across Japan replicating haiku poet Matsuo Bas...
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Living Legend
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