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subhas chandra bose

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Gandhi, Hitler, Tojo and Bose - Japan Times feature on the life of the Indian revolutionary.

koganecho

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  Short travel piece on Koganecho.


koganecho rising

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Longer Japan Times article on the resurrection of Yokohama's former brothel town.

the rita taketsuru fan club

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Japan Times article on the Scottish woman who helped bring the water of life to the land of the rising sun.

down - but not out - in kotobukicho

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Feature story on Yokohama's poorest six-square blocks.

little okinawa

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Travel article on Yokohama's ex-pat Okinawan district.

great balls of steel

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A tale of purgatory from the neighbourhood pachinko parlour.

kawasaki daishi

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Welcoming in the Year of the Rabbit at Kawasaki's blue-collar shrine.

an island in the city

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Feature story on Okitsuru- Yokohama's Ryukyu neighbourhood.