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June 15, 2010

5. Holding Money

THE PUREST FORM OF SPECULATION ...

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March 01, 2010

2. Capitalism: A System Based on Speculation

What is speculation? In general terms, it means to conjecture without firm evidence, and in particular refers to the act ...

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November 24, 2009

Vol. 24: Pan-Fired Tea (2) 

Japanese owes its green color to the lack of fermentation. While smed s are far more common, there is ...

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November 04, 2009

Vol. 24: Pan-Fired Tea (1)

Japanese tea owes its green color to the lack of fermentation. While steamed teas are far more common, there is ...

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August 04, 2009

Vol. 21:Konbu (Kelp)

Since ancient times the Japanese have taken in essential minerals, such as sodium, calcium, and potassium, as well as iodine ...

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March 30, 2009

Vol. 15: Dried Bonito

Dried bonito is a major source of the traditional soup stock that is essential to so many Japanese dishes. The ...

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March 10, 2009

Vol. 14: Eight-Rowed Corn

Eight-rowed corn sustained the lives of those who had newly settled Hokkaido in the late nineteenth onward. It has since ...

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January 29, 2009

Vol. 10: Koji, an Aspergillus

Miso soup for breakfast and dinner, soy sauce that always makes it on the dining table, the evening cup of ...

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December 04, 2008

Vol. 8: Rapeseed Oil

For ages, rapeseed oil was an important oil in Japanese cooking. But while oil consumption has increased with the Westernization ...

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December 04, 2008

Risk Communication in Relation to Food

How should the government respond to public anxiety about the safety of food? The process by which the British Food ...

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