What Can We See Beyond the Brit Pop?

By 10th of March 20062006, International

Nowadays over 50,000 Japanese people live in the U.K. In particular, a large number of Japanese women in their 30s have moved to Britain to escape the stress and pressure of Japanese society. They are eager to stay in a foreign country, and do not want to go back to Japan. Aya Fukuda investigates their thoughts on British and Japanese society and the reason Britain is so fascinating for them.

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