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U.S. diplomat: Language key Yoko Mizui Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer For Joyce Wong, principal officer and consul of the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka, listening comprehension practice was the most difficult part of her studies at a Japanese-language school run by the U.S. State Department in Yokohama. U.S. diplomats who need Japanese language proficiency to carry out their professional duties are usua..

Behind the Paper Screen / New reasons to know Japan Sawa Kurotani Special to The Daily Yomiuri Carol Gluck, a prominent historian of modern Japan, wrote an article nearly a decade ago titled "Top Ten Things to Know about Japan in the Late 1990s." In this succinct yet remarkably informative essay, Gluck dispelled the old stereotype of Japan as a small island country with exotic customs, and prese..

English contest gets under way with royal visit The Yomiuri Shimbun Princess Takamado attended a ceremony earlier this month in Tokyo to welcome a new committee of university students who are organizing an annual English speech contest. As the honorary patron for the 59th H.I.H. Prince Takamado Trophy All Japan Inter-Middle School English Oratorical Contest, Princess Takamado spoke at the cerem..