Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Foreigners who once colonized us, who have done nothing to help us, these foreigners have no good intentions,

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.