Contents
2011 October Contents

Featured Articles
A Community Under One Roof

House sharing has become Japan's newest popular trend, especially in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Flash
This Year is TAISHO 100

2011 October Flash
Products Of The Month
The Permanence of Amber

Amber (kohaku in Japanese) is a natural material created when the sap of ancient trees became fossilized between 30,000 to 100 million or more years ago.
Real Japan
Behind Rock 'n' Roll Generation

By Dave McCaughan
Retirement and Start of New Life
In 2007, the first of Japan's Dankai (Baby Boomer) generation began to retire. And according to some reports, the fastest growing sales of any category of products that year was electric guitars.

