Archive

February, 2012
· Expats Choice (Level B)
· Train your child like an eagle (Level B)
· The ‘hikikomori’ phenomenon (News)
· Addiction part of Our Genes? (Level B)
January, 2012
· Internet Piracy Bill dead? (News)
· Achieving e-government in Japan (OTHERS)
December, 2011
· A total ban in texting (Level B)
· Do you think nows the time to reunite? (News)
· Conflict over child allowance (News)
· Man goes to jail for insulting the king (News)
· Can Big Business Save Japanese Fishing Industry? (News)
November, 2011
· News article: Sleep-Texting (News)
· Have Japanese brands lost their way? (News)
· Screening Cholesterol (Level B)
· Blue Eyes (Level B)
· Gay Rights (News)
October, 2011
· Hundreds turn out to Occupy Tokyo (News)
· A New form of protest called Occupy (Level B)
September, 2011
· Taxes for the Mega-Rich (News)
· Can news predict the future? (News)
· Junk in Outer Space (Level B)
· Are Japan's music festivals just sterile, fun-free cash cows? (News)
· Identical Hairstyles (Level B)
August, 2011
· The Lie Detector Test (News)
· A crack down on gangs in Britain (Level B)
· Human Hair trading is Booming (Level B)
July, 2011
· Apple Richer Than the U.S. Government (Level B)
· Digital or Analog signal for your TV? (OTHERS)
· The Internet Is Changing Our Memory (Level B)
· Movies condone drugs and unsafe sex (OTHERS)
· FBI Joins News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal (Level B)
· Has cronyism wrecked Japan's long-term repair? (News)
· Harry Potter Web Site (Level B)
June, 2011
· Women2Drive Day In Saudi Arabia (News)
· Do nursing homes overuse drugs? (News)
· US Senate moves to freeze Japan base move (News)
· GM Cows To Produce Human Breast Milk (News)
· Life Goals: What Do You Really Want? (OTHERS)
· Gap narrows between homeless and mainstream (News)
· Govt to set point system for foreigners (News)
· WHO Says One Billion People Disabled (Level B)
May, 2011
· Rethinking nuclear energy in Japan (OTHERS)
· Racism (Level B)
· Should Bin Laden Photo Be Released? (Level B)
April, 2011
· Sleeping Next To Pets Can Make You Sick (Level B)
· Meditation Versus Pain-Killers (OTHERS)
· Unusual Abbrivations in the dictionary (Level B)
· Red Meat (Level B)
· Spreading Rumors (OTHERS)
· pre (OTHERS)
· Are you becoming an office deadweight? (OTHERS)
March, 2011
· International Coalition Attacks Libya (OTHERS)
· Pronunciation and Intonation Tips (OTHERS)
· British Car Insurance Gender Inequality Ends (Level B)
· Could Japan's earthquake cause a debt crisis? (News)
· Sidewalk Rage (Level B)
· Is Japan Inc. Back? (OTHERS)
February, 2011
· Where have all of Japan's shoppers gone? (OTHERS)
· Why Japan has a problem with prime ministers (OTHERS)
· Voluntourism (OTHERS)
· Business English Exercises PART 8 (Level A)
· Business English Exercises PART 7 (OTHERS)
· Business English Exercises PART 6 (OTHERS)
· Protecting Your Own Countries Language (Level B)
· column (OTHERS)
· Teachers in Japan being forced to sing national anthem (News)
· Greenpeace’s Latest Campaign to Save the Environment (Level B)
January, 2011
· Education Woes (Level B)
· Debate starts on restricting foreign purchases of land (OTHERS)
December, 2010
· Effective Presentation Techniques (OTHERS)
· Freedom of Speech a Thing of the Past? (Level B)
· Corporate Social Responsibility (OTHERS)
· Texas School Allows Students to Fight in Metal Cage (Level B)
· TOEIC EXERCISE 4 (TOEIC)
November, 2010
· The effects of a frugal Japanese society (News)
· Could Too Many Children End Humankind? (Level B)
· Heavy Texting – a New Social Problem (News)
· Day-care services in Japan (News)
· Telling a Lie is a Part of Human Nature (Level B)
· Compulsive Internet Disorder (Level B)
· Unmarried Households very common? (Level B)
· Fear of China (OTHERS)
· Most Replace Half of Their Friends Every 7 Years (Level C)
· Home Schoolers on the Rise (Level B)
· Bussiness English Exercises part 5 (OTHERS)
October, 2010
· Japan's stingy approach to schools has not paid off (News)
· Business English Exercises part 4 (OTHERS)
· Foreign students to work in Japan (News)
· Japanese landlords demand lost rent for suicides (OTHERS)
· Business English Exercises part 3 (OTHERS)
· A Person who is messy is more Efficient (Level B)
· Adverb or Adjective Exercises (Level A)
· Is Japan's disease curable? (News)
· The Biggest Cheaters (Level B)
· Chipping an Invasion of Privacy (Level B)
· The Dancing Flight Attendants (News)
· Perfect Cruise Tips (OTHERS)
September, 2010
· Sooner or later, marijuana will be legal (News)
· Toeic Exercises Part 3 (TOEIC)
· Sensible or weak-kneed decision? (OTHERS)
· DEBATE: Can computers take the place of teachers? (OTHERS)
· top 10 acts of escapism in Las Vegas (OTHERS)
· Stepfamilies on rise but relationships difficult (News)
· Business Terms Exercises (OTHERS)
· Can't stand it anymore (Level A)
· American Art in Delaware (Level A)
· 6 Tips to Surviving Group-Tour Travel (OTHERS)
· Business English Exercise (OTHERS)
· Japan’s Leadership Merry-Go-Round (News)
· Learning English (Level A)
· Pete's Sharp Knife (Level A)
· Donor organ 'personality' worry (OTHERS)
· Men, Women, and Household Chore (Level B)
· 3 word verbs in Business conversation (OTHERS)
August, 2010
· Starting a Presentation (OTHERS)
· Thanksgiving (Kids A)
· The Garden (Kids A)
· Useful Business Idiom Expressions (OTHERS)
· To Be Happy Keep Yourself busy (Level A)
· The Russian Report (Level A)
· TOEIC Exercises Part 2 (TOEIC)
· Lets Clean the River (Level A)
· Tips for flying with your pet (OTHERS)
· A Tragic Accident (Level A)
· Toeic Exercises (TOEIC)
· The Big One (Level A)
July, 2010
· code (OTHERS)
· 'Hikikomori' bedroom hermits (News)
· Business Expressions (OTHERS)
· Exercises on Adjectives and Adverbs (Level A)
· Gun Law Reform (Level B)
· Enjoy the Movie (Level A)
· Many in Japan Are Outsourcing Themselves (News)
· Step Eiken Exercise (OTHERS)
· Japan's Provinces Are Withering Away (News)
· Money-saving tips for a summer abroad (OTHERS)
· Still-singles drive parents to play marriage broker (News)
· Japan parties shun immigration debate before poll (News)
· They are all in School (Kids A)
· Soccer Fever (Level A)
· Global Zero (OTHERS)
· Practice Conversations (Level A)
· Weisure Time (Level B)
· The number 13 (Kids B)
June, 2010
· Register to Vote (Level A)
· Time for a Haircut (Level A)
· Character Most Important in Politics (Level B)
· New in America (Level A)
· English Intonation and Word Stress PB (OTHERS)
· English Intonation and Stress (OTHERS)
· Tips for traveling solo (OTHERS)
· I Feel Sick (Level A)
· Alcoholism a growing problem among Japanese women, elderly (News)
· Remembering Situations in Life (Level B)
· Fire (Kids B)
· Lets go on a Vacation (Kids A)
· Hatoyama leaves litany of problems (News)
· New Hazards at the Office (Level B)
· An Interprter that helps Students (Level A)
· Australia sues Japan over controversial whaling (News)
· Bribing Children to Behave (Level B)
· Don’t Be in a Hurry (Level A)
May, 2010
· Boarding a Plane (OTHERS)
· Improving your Telephone skills Intermediate (Level B)
· Improving your Telephone skills (Level A)
· Japan's Lay Judge System (News)
· Practice conversations:Using Did and Didn't (Level A)
· Pet owners grieve over absence of funeral regulations (News)
· Its Better to have no Money at all (Level B)
· Feeding the Cats (Level A)
· Number of Elderly Men living alone in Japan increases (News)
· Unemployed Young People (Level B)
· The Big Wedding (Level A)
· Bullying (Level B)
· Riding a Bicycle (Level A)
· My Collections (Kids A)
· The Economics of Japanese Immigration (News)
· My Favorite Food (Kids A)
· Parades and Horses (Level A)
· BT (OTHERS)
· What animals see (Level B)
· Attack of the Squirrel (Level A)
· Extreme Employees (Level B)
April, 2010
· You're Health is You're Wealth (Level A)
· Enhanced Beauty Contest (Level B)
· Best Of Friends (Level A)
· Lets Count the Animals (Kids A)
· 6 Things You're Doing to Delay Your Retirement (OTHERS)
· No. of schools for foreign children decreasing (News)
· Are you a Supertasker? (News)
· Marriage Insurance (Level C)
· Slow Aging (Level B)
· Collapsed Pier (Level A)
March, 2010
· Do Blood types have personalities? (Level B)
· Lots of Toys (Kids A)
· When to use Wasn't and Weren't (Level A)
· Fishing Boat Sinks, Everyone Saved (Level A)
· Students banned from ceremonies over unpaid fees (News)
· Early retirement plans by the Government of Japan (News)
· Myths about Sleep (Level B)
· Terrorism against the Taxman (Level C)
· The Fountain of Youth (Level B)
· Get Hired Today! (OTHERS)
· Donate your Blood (Level A)
· New Immigration laws for Foreign Nurses and Dentists (News)
· A Very Unhappy Ending (Level A)
· Getting Paid to Play (Level B)
· Toyota fiasco a wake-up call for Japan's companies (News)
· Color Predicts Personality (Level B)
· When are you going to? (Level A)
· Anger and defiance in Taiji after 'Cove' wins Oscar (News)
· Growing number of men have no close friends (News)
· A Messy Room (Kids A)
· Addicted to debt (News)
· The Big Hunt (Level A)
· Japan disputes racism allegations at U.N. panel (News)
February, 2010
· A very strange coincidence (Level B)
· A very rude sales clerk (Level A)
· Whats the matter? (Level A)
· What are they going to do tomorrow? (Level A)
· Reasoning and Apologizing (Level A)
· Medical Tourism in Japan (OTHERS)
· Answer sheet (OTHERS)
· Slanguage (OTHERS)
· can you? (Level A)
· A park full of dogs (Level A)
· How to Get out of Jury Duty (Level A)
· The job interview (Level A)
· Bad information from medical dramas (News)
· Is your doctor a criminal? (News)
· The dumbing down of Japanese students (News)
· U.S. Japan bilateral ties in danger? (News)
· Fathering school opens to teach men about childcare (OTHERS)
· Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Level A)
January, 2010
· Don’t Go Swimming on an Empty Stomach (Level A)
· When Patients Share Medical Data Online (News)
· Expressing how you feel (Level A)
· Simplify your life (Level B)
· Alternative medicine (Level B)
· Japanese newspapers look for new ways to survive (News)
· The Mary Celeste (Level B)
· Let’s Go to Vegas! (Level A)
· Technological Advances Alone Cannot Save The Environment (News)
· Man Gets 12 Years for Fraud (Level A)
· Living sustainably (OTHERS)
· Clinton: Internet 'information curtain' is dropping (News)
· Dylans car (Level A)
· My Birthday Party (Kids B)
· Link AOF (OTHERS)
· Fruits (Kids A)
· Adverbs of frequency (Level A)
· Same-sex marriage and the new YouTube debate (News)
· Cram Schools (Level B)
· The Boss (Level A)
· Bank Robbery (Level A)
· Leaving corporate cocoons to blossom (News)
· ans emi (OTHERS)
· History of the moon erased? (Level B)
· Time to Emigrate (OTHERS)
· Digital piracy and the e-book industry (News)
· Lets Eat (Level A)
· Train Wreck (Level A)
· Lets go fishing (Level A)
December, 2009
· Tips janglish (OTHERS)
· Examples (OTHERS)
· The Man Who Loved Women (Level A)
· JAS (OTHERS)
· Dont talk in Janglish (Level C)
· Gender Imbalance (OTHERS)
· Can the law keep up with technology? (News)
· Tokyo man marries video game character (News)
· A Man battles for his son's custody (News)
· When White Americans Become a Minority (News)
· Around the World in 50 minutes (Level A)
· Coincidence? (Level C)
· A Valuable Guitar Finally Found (Level A)
· Eat Your French Fries (Level A)
· Marijuana Mom and the Cannabis Kid (News)
· Green Travel on Vacation - with Style (OTHERS)
· A Very Lucky Find (Level A)
· Japan becoming nation of unrelenting complainers (News)
· Link for the news article unrelenting complainers (OTHERS)
· Describing a Person and Different Situations (Level A)
· Bathtub Blues (Level A)
· Leaked climate text shows West imperialism (News)
· 42.8% of Japanese see no need to have children: survey (News)
· Around Town (Kids A)
November, 2009
· A School Girl Sues Her School (Level A)
· A New Air-Conditioner (Level A)
· Immigration Goes Online (Level A)
· It Takes away the pain (Level C)
· Superstition (Level C)
· Danger in the ocean (Level C)
· Leonardo Da Vinci (Level C)
· Activity dialogue 1 MBE (OTHERS)
· What are they doing (Level A)
· Reinforcing week: Movies (Advance Level) (OTHERS)
· Reinforcing Week: Movies (Level C)
· Cameras in Police Cars (Level A)
· Trees Are a Threat (Level A)
· Getting Older But Not Sitting Around (Level A)
· Obama, Hatoyama Emphasize Cooperation During Tokyo Visit (News)
· Civilian Trial for Terror Suspects Sparks Debate (News)
· There Goes the Neighborhood (Level A)
· E-Memory (OTHERS)
· Should Banks Share Personal Information? (OTHERS)
· Practice conversations: Giving Locations and Directions (Level A)
· Practice conversations: Describing Pictures (Level A)
· Welcome to Teacher Ray's Class (Home)
· City and Crime (Level A)
· A Copy of your Pet (Level A)
· Practice conversation: Money (Level A)
· Practice conversation:Memory (Level A)
· Write or Wrong: The Death of Handwriting? (Level B)
October, 2009
· Where are they and whar are they doing? (Level A)
· What time is it (Kids A)
· To Execute Or Not-You decide (OTHERS)
· Kids In Jail (OTHERS)
· Practice conversations: You're Health Part 1 (Level A)
· Pulling Out Nine Tons of Trash (Level A)
· Happy and Unhappy Renters (Level A)
· A Festival of Books (Level A)
· Expressions about traveling Part2 (Level A)
· Expressions about travelling Part1 (Level A)
· Gasoline Prices Hit Record High (Level A)
· Internet access becomes a legal right (OTHERS)
· An End To Homelessness (Level B)
· Crazy Housing Prices (Level A)
· Comparative and Superlatives (Level A)
· Where are they? (Kids A)
· A recipe for riches (OTHERS)
· Obama, Wins Peace Prize (OTHERS)
· The Disappearing Male (OTHERS)
· Visa's in the Philippines (OTHERS)
· Social Networking Sites (Level B)
· Nouns (Level A)
· Home Gardening: What to Do About Lead (OTHERS)
· Books don't grow on trees (Level A)
· $100 Deposit (Level A)
· A very clean couple (Level A)
September, 2009
· The Economic Benefits of Marriage (News)
· A Man's strange love for books (Level A)
· Life Saving Cow (Level A)
· Jerry's Bad Day (Level A)
· Its Much Better to be Unlucky (Level A)
· Driving Under The Influence (Level A)
· Theft happens everywhere (Level A)
· Missing cat (Level A)
· Indian Students in Australia Raise Cries of Racism (News)
· Eggs and a Bunny (Level A)
· Goats being hired to work (Level A)
· Man Injured at a Fast Food Place (Level A)
· Shopping for bargains (Level A)
· Dining out (Level A)
· The future of libraries, with or without books (News)
· Plan would pay Japanese families to have kids (News)
· A Mythical 'beast' resurfaces (OTHERS)
· Dementia (OTHERS)
· A very busy day (Level A)
· Being politically correct (OTHERS)
· How to Lose $3 Million in Six Years (Level B)
· Watching Out for 'Wicked Plants' (OTHERS)
· Researchers Link Gene to Need for Less Sleep (OTHERS)
· Is America on its way out of recession? (OTHERS)
· California's Textbook Project (OTHERS)
· Health in America (Level B)
· Black English (Level B)
· American customs (Level B)
· My new book (Kids A)
· Going fishing (Kids A)
· Used to (Level A)
· How to use either and neither (Level A)
· During and While (Level A)
August, 2009
· Something to worry about (Level B)
· High Flyers (Level B)
· How Celebrity Names Identify Those at Risk with Alzheimer's (News)
· Can and Could (Level A)
· Dan's kitchen (Kids A)
· Seasons (Kids A)
· Conjuctions (Level A)
· When to use May and Might (Level A)
· Preparing for a Threat to Wheat Plants In Afghanistan. (OTHERS)
· Organic versus Non-Organic Food (OTHERS)
· Job promotions healthy or unhealthy? (OTHERS)
· Sports and steroids (OTHERS)
· A lot of/Lots of/A lot (OTHERS)
· Much and Many (Level A)
· The 4 Flattering Clothing colors (OTHERS)
· How to use A and An (Level A)
· In To On and at (Level A)
· How to use any or some in sentences (Level A)
July, 2009
· Tarzan of the apes (OTHERS)
· Shopping malls and mail order (OTHERS)
· Big changes in my town (OTHERS)
· Into the garbage (Level A)
· Different situations you might encounter while shopping (Level A)
· What do they like to do (Level A)
· Sleeping habits around the world (OTHERS)
· Where are they and what are they doing (Level A)
· You are what you eat (OTHERS)
· Let me tell your future (Level A)
· U.S. Healthcare plan a work in progress (News)
· Missing Weapons (OTHERS)
· Present Continuous Tenses (Level A)
· The Sahara Desert (Level A)
· Reading Activity (Level A)
· A plane to where? (OTHERS)
· Would you rather be single or married? (OTHERS)
· Trouble in Cyberspace (OTHERS)
· America's Uninsured (Level C)

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