Search Results for: Japan

‘God Help You. You’re on Dialysis.’

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A change to the Social Security Act granted comprehensive coverage under Medicare to virtually anyone diagnosed with kidney failure, regardless of age or income. Taxpayers now spend more than $20 billion a year to care for those on dialysis — about $77,000 per patient, more, by some accounts, than any other nation. Yet the United States continues to have one of the industrialized world’s highest mortality rates for dialysis care. Even taking into account differences in patient characteristics, studies suggest that if our system performed as well as Italy’s, or France’s, or Japan’s, thousands fewer patients would die each year.

Source: ProPublica
Published: Nov 9, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,603 words)

Uniqlones

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[Not single-page] Seemingly out of nowhere, their cheap, skinny rainbow-colored basics became a kind of New York uniform. Just how did the Japanese discount brand become the hottest retailer in the city?

Published: May 9, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,486 words)

Cholly, They’ll Never Call You A Hayseed In This Town Again

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Bringing a World Series trophy to a title-starved city can do that for a guy, but Charlie Manuel—national hero in Japan, hitting savant, friend to the Amish, Ted Williams and pretty much everyone in between—was a worldly man long before you ever knew.

Published: Jun 22, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,369 words)

Tiananmen Story

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It was so frustrating. It was early May, 1989 and I was in Tokyo reporting the financial markets for Reuters, fiddling around journalistically with the peak of the Japanese bubble economy. Meanwhile in China, cataclysmic events were unfolding and I wasn’t there. I really wanted to get back to see it and live it.

Source: Earnshaw.com
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 39 minutes (9,771 words)