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1. LIFELINES: LABOR PAINS - HIFUMI OKUNUKI
No legal cure-all for fixed-term job insecurity
April 24, 2012
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2. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Will I have trouble re-entering Japan if I lose my gaijin card?
April 24, 2012
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3. LIFELINES - YUICHI KAWAMOTO
Can I sue a former employer for not paying toward my pension?
April 10, 2012
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4. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Less-than-fluent foreigners may have trouble giving blood
April 3, 2012
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5. LIFELINES: LABOR PAINS - HIFUMI OKUNUKI
A promise of employment is binding, Supreme Court ruled in late 1970s case
March 27, 2012
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6. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Suginami Ward 'informers' just doing their job
March 27, 2012
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7. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Import tax: a complex, seemingly arbitrary minefield
March 13, 2012
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8. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Immigration 'informers' call on foreigners in Suginami Ward
March 6, 2012
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9. LIFELINES: LABOR PAINS - HIFUMI OKUNUKI
Oversleeping radio anchor set tough precedent for firing staff
Feb. 28, 2012
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10. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Ill-prepared schools put returner, family in tough spot
Feb. 21, 2012
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11. LIFELINES - RYOKO MINAGAWA and MASAKO SUZUKI
Firms have few grounds to refuse staff paid leave
Feb. 14, 2012
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12. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Facing up to alcoholism in foreign land can help or hinder recovery
Jan. 31, 2012
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13. LIFELINES - YUICHI KAWAMOTO
Tepco pole position may scupper land buy
Jan. 24, 2012
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14. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Acceptance — social and otherwise — a crucial issue for Japan returnee kids
Jan. 17, 2012
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15. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Rejoining school system in Japan after time away can be tough
Jan. 10, 2012
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16. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Replacing your alien card; blasts from the past
Dec. 20, 2011
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17. LIFELINES - MASAKO SUZUKI
All employees in Japan are entitled to paid leave, period
Dec. 13, 2011
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18. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Buck stops with landlord of moldy apartment
Dec. 6, 2011
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19. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
More on carrying your gaijin card, and where to find Indian temples
Nov. 22, 2011
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20. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Writing a will can take the uncertainty out of inheritance
Nov. 15, 2011
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21. LIFELINES - YUICHI KAWAMOTO
Hague won't help Japanese mom reunite with lost baby
Nov. 8, 2011
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22. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
To carry or not to carry your 'gaijin card' upon re-entry?
Oct. 25, 2011
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23. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
How to avoid the trouble of paying double on return to Oz
Oct. 18, 2011
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24. LIFELINES - MASAKO SUZUKI
Unfair dismissal: the legal options
Oct. 4, 2011
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25. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Can the government change my name? asks 'Madame Spouse'
Sept. 27, 2011
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26. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
3/11: no excuse for skipping your re-entry visa
Sept. 13, 2011
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27. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Legal help for those on a limited budget
Aug. 23, 2011
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28. LIFELINES - YUICHI KAWAMOTO and CHARLES ALVAREZ
Scant legal justification for unpaid overtime
Aug. 9, 2011
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29. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Where there's the will for a will, there's a way
July 26, 2011
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30. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON and ANGELA JEFFS
Bye-bye to the gaijin card, welcome to the Juki Net in '12
July 12, 2011
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31. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Permanent residency, legal query, a lost friend
June 28, 2011
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32. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Permanent residents, mind the 'gap years' in your pension payments
June 21, 2011
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33. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Support network backs Japanese-Filipino kids abandoned by fathers
June 14, 2011
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34. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
English magazines run gamut from poetry to prose, Kanto to Chubu
May 31, 2011
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35. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Pension payout query: to leave it or lump it?
May 24, 2011
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36. LIFELINES - ANGELA JEFFS and ASHLEY THOMPSON
Print is suffering, but English readers have never had it so good
May 17, 2011
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37. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Pension 'gap years' and missed payments
May 10, 2011
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38. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Leaping the digital TV divide
May 3, 2011
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39. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Japan pension answers often case-specific
April 19, 2011
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40. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON and ANGELA JEFFS
Quake aid, local services
April 12, 2011
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41. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Quake aid, pet predictions
April 5, 2011
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42. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
Hosting, contacting survivors
March 29, 2011
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43. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
The relief effort: how you can help
March 22, 2011
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44. LIFELINES - ASHLEY THOMPSON
All is not lost when 'carded'
March 15, 2011
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45. LIFELINES - ANGELA JEFFS and KEN JOSEPH JR.
Seeking advice on U.K. taxation; returning wartime photographs
Feb. 15, 2011
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46. LIFELINES - ANGELA JEFFS and KEN JOSEPH JR.
Mental health advice, cash card blues
Feb. 8, 2011
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47. LIFELINES - ANGELA JEFFS and KEN JOSEPH JR.
Carnet crucial when doing Japan in a van
Jan. 25, 2011
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48. LIFELINES - ANGELA JEFFS and KEN JOSEPH JR.
Landlords have right of entry — the roaches don't
Jan. 11, 2011
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49. LIFELINES - ANGELA JEFFS and KEN JOSEPH Jr.
Doing Japan in a van: highs, lows, dos, don'ts
Dec. 14, 2010
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50. LIFELINES - ANGELA JEFFS and KEN JOSEPH JR.
Bothered by night flight racket from Futenma air base
Nov. 30, 2010
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