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Hay fever can make life hard enough to use the adjective ‘tsurai’

By Hitomi Tashiro and Akemi Tanahashi
Contributing Writers

Mar 18, 2019

Kataomoi-tte, tsurai nā. (How painful unrequited love is.)

Situation 1: Ms. Gray catches Ms. Tamachi sighing.

田町：ああ、片思いって、つらいなあ。

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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