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Cultural Conundrums / Children’s Self-control and Culture: Practice Yields Divergent Results

By Kate Elwood / Special to The Japan News 12:15 JST, September 10, 2023 The 19th-century playwright Oscar Wilde is known for his many witty...

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Cultural Conundrums / Communicating Togetherness Through Commerce in 2 Different Cultures

kate Elwood / Special to Japan News 11:38 JST, August 6, 2023 As a young child, I was the type of kid that friends’ mothers loved. “Kate is so...

06.08.2023 30

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Cultural Conundrums / Slouching Toward Self-aggrandizement: Understated Japanese Boasting

Kate Elwood 10:00 JST, June 1, 2023 Self-aggrandizement is rare in Japan, perhaps because family members won’t let you get away with even the...

01.06.2023 20

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Cultural Conundrums / What we talk about when we talk about sushi: Cultural shorthand of iconic food

By Kate Elwood / Special to The Japan News 10:00 JST, May 4, 2023 Last month, I took a short trip to the U.S. and went to a sushi restaurant with...

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The Pinnacle of Ordinary: ‘Futsuu’ as a Favored, Flexible Framework

By Kate Elwood / Special to The Japan News 10:00 JST, March 2, 2023 Ordinarily, I would never have expected to write about the word “futsuu”...

02.03.2023 20

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When ‘You’ is Askew: Analyzing the Ambiguities of ‘Anata’

By Kate Elwood / Special to The Japan News 18:40 JST, February 2, 2023 A website that provides advice to Japanese learners describes “anata”...

14.02.2023 10

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Alice in Japan: A wonderland of cultural adaptation

By Kate Elwood / Special to The Japan News 20:17 JST, January 11, 2023 When I was in elementary school, my class staged “Alice’s Adventures in...

14.02.2023 10

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Kids and gifts: Cultural differences in displaying and articulating emotions

By By Kate Elwood / Special to The Japan News 16:39 JST, December 1, 2022 A recent article in The New York Times was titled, “Please Don’t...

14.02.2023 10

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