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Wakaba Oto

Writer and editor based between Tokyo and New York City, reporting on culture, subculture and the outdoors. She’s flown to Morocco for a first date with a stranger, worked undercover as a hostess in Tokyo’s red-light district and trekked Salkantay to Machu Picchu entirely untrained — all in the name of a good story. Find her on Instagram @wakabss or reach her at [email protected]

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Japan Self-Defense Forces Deployed To 'Neutralize' 400,000 Chickens in Bird Flu Crisis

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Japanese University Student Goes On Hammer-Wielding Rampage, Eight Injured

Junko Furuta and the Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Justice Revisited

Tokyo To Subsidize Painless Childbirth 

Osechi Evolution: How Japan’s New Year’s Feast Is Changing

How Japan Turned Christmas Into a Romantic Affair for Some — and a Lonely Night for Others

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What To Know About Drug Use — Prescription and Otherwise — When Traveling in Japan

George Glass To Become US Ambassador to Japan

The Life, Death and Diplomacy of the Siberian Cat Mir Gifted by Vladimir Putin

Osaka High Court Upholds 18-Year Sentence for Doctor in Assisted Suicide Case

How Kabukicho Bars Are Turning Dating Apps Into Traps

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Shikoku Bank Executives Pledge To ‘Commit Suicide’ if Found Guilty of Financial Misconduct