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Let’s discuss new year cards

Signing off: The stress of having to write new year cards has pushed people to consider giving up the tradition altogether. | GETTY IMAGES

Signing off: The stress of having to write new year cards has pushed people to consider giving up the tradition altogether. | GETTY IMAGES

Dec 17, 2018

This week’s featured article

KAORI SHOJI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Once a tradition firmly entrenched in the national consciousness, the 苍别苍驳补箩ō (new year card) is facing extinction.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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