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Recession Eats Up Japanese Careers, Lives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tokiko Tsuji
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Letters in the Heian Period (794-1185) were written on paper made from the bark of the dakekanba birch tree. It's a bit of trivia that few know. One who does is Shinji Iwata.

Iwata, 58, is an aspiring nature guide. Every weekend he drives 150 kilometers to a campsite in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, where the forest is deep and skunk cabbage blooms in tiny brooks. He has been training here as a guide for the past nine months.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 6 , June 2005 , e2
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