Springtime beans aim for the sky
Fava beans are thought to be among the earliest cultivated vegetables: They most likely originated in the Mediterranean region or Asia Minor around 6000 B.C. They entered Japan around the eighth century and have been a favorite ever since, a welcome …
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US hoist by its own pivot petard
Japan's politics is now driven by more than a sense of political, economic, and strategic malaise inspired by two decades of slow growth, political gridlock, and the well-founded anxiety that rising China is eating Japan's bento box lunch as a …
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