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CELEBRATE in STYLE Weekender’S Guides for Gifts and Winter Activities DECEMBER 2014 Japan’s number one English language magazine CELEBRATE IN STYLE Weekender’s Guides for Gifts and Winter Activities HAKONE Art, Onsens, and the Wonders of Nature HEALTH CHECK Japan’s High-Performance Health Care ROUGH JUSTICE Forced Confessions in the Japanese Legal System ALSO: Cheeky Parade Does New York, the Deep Roots of One of Tokyo’s Oldest Beauty Salons, Agenda,www.tokyoweekender.com Movies, and DECEMBER More... 2014 hether it’s a lazy weekend or a busy instant email confirmation of your order. You day at the office, there are times can even arrange for catering services. A great Wwhen we find ourselves craving selection of meals is just a few clicks away. good food, yet hungry for online convenience. Maishoku lets you search its entire selection Take your pick from a variety of cuisines: of restaurants online—conveniently filtered by • Italian • Mexican • Thai location, cuisine, opening hours, price, and • Korean • Chinese • Vegetarian delivery distance. You can see the most popular • Indian • Japanese items by restaurant, order in seconds, and get • American • Vietnamese We have over 200 restaurants to choose from and deliver to all 23 wards of Tokyo! Please enter the code xmas14week at checkout to receive your 15% discount All major credit cards accepted: www.maishoku.com 03-6433-5271 [email protected] *Offer ends January 5, 2014, and is for all orders up to ¥10,000 DECEMBER 2014 www.tokyoweekender.com DECEMBER 2014 CONTENTS 18 HAKONE Majestic views, luxurious onsen ryokan, and art around every corner 6 8 12 HEALTH CARE FALSE CONFESSIONS FESTIVE FUN How does the Japanese system stack up The system that put an innocent man on Say sayonara to 2015 in style: our guide to against that of the US? death row for nearly 50 years keeping spirits bright in December 14 Gift Guide 32 Cheeky Parade 38 People, Parties, Places At a loss for what to get for the people on The nonet rocks out with Jane’s Addiction, Bill and Bob Geldof, an ex-sumo wrestler your list? Look no further and they’re just getting started in drag, and a Brazilian bash 16 Ritzwell 33 Max Brenner 42 Movies Smooth lines and organic material Where chocolate isn’t just a hit for your One last romp in Middle-earth, and an combine to make unforgettable furniture sweet tooth, it’s a way of life inflatable robot comes to the rescue 30 Hollywood Beauty Salon 36 An Evening of Good Taste 44 Agenda The story behind one of the city’s most Rubbing elbows and sipping the finest Walking on fire in Ibaraki, David Bowie www.maishoku.com venerable beauty salons sake from Japan’s 47 prefectures through the years, and more www.tokyoweekender.com DECEMBER 2014 THIS MONTH IN THE WEEKENDER and a few more. DECEMBER 2014 Then we touch on a topic that may DECEMBER 2014 make you grateful to be living in Japan, Japan’s number one English language magazine particularly if you come from a country that’s only getting started with the idea CELEBRATE IN STYLE of universal health care. We look into Weekender’s Guides for Gifts and Winter Activities the workings of the health care system in Japan, particularly the way it manages to provide quality care at close to half of the Publisher BC Media Group price that people pay in the US. Chairman Ray Pedersen And with that, we move into a bit more cheer, and hit the rails for a Executive Producer Asi Rinestine HAKONE weekend escape to nearby Hakone, whose Art, Onsens, and the Wonders of Nature charming blend of culture, scenery, and Editor Alec Jordan Art Director Liam Ramshaw luxuriously appointed ryokan make it a HEALTH CHECK perfect getaway to have on your list for Japan’s High-Performance Health Care Media Director Kotaro Toda the holidays. We drop in at a few of the Account Executives Nobu (Nick) Nakazawa ROUGH JUSTICE Forced Confessions in the Japanese Legal System area’s best-known spots, and introduce Ohad Elbaz you to a couple that you might not have ALSO: Cheeky Parade Does New York, the Deep Roots of One of Tokyo’s Oldest Beauty Salons, Agenda,www.tokyoweekender.com Movies, and DECEMBER More... 2014 Media Consultants Mary Rudow known before. Sophia Bai As those of you who’ve spent a few Marketing Ingrid Dubreuil lthough we’re moving into years here know, Tokyo puts its own spin Editorial Consultant Sami Kawahara the merrier time of the on the winter season, and there’s plenty year—just how merry might to take in over the next few weeks. We’ve Society Bill Hersey A depend on your feelings got our share of recommendations for Editorial Associates Vivian Morelli about KFC and “kurisumasu kehki”— things you’ll want to try out—or pick up Matthew Hernon our December issue begins with more for friends and family—as the mercury Sarah Custen serious subjects. The first is the matter keeps dropping. There are a couple more of forced confessions in Japan, a practice surprises to be found on these pages, Film Christopher O’Keeffe that led to a man, Iwao Hakamada, but it’s never good to unwrap something IT Manager Nick Adams being held on death row for more than before its time, so we’ll leave them to you Finance & Admin Keiko Suzuki 46 years: longer than any other person to find! DBA Iryna Sundutova to date. He was released this year, but how was it that he was even put A very happy holidays to you and yours, behind bars in the first place? How are and we’ll see you in 2015. police able to get someone to confess to a crime that they didn’t commit? Writer Matthew Hernon speaks with a pair of representatives from Amnesty EST. Corky Alexander, 1970 International to answer these questions Editor Published monthly at the Regency Shinsaka Building, 5th floor 8-5-8 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 (03) 6666-4924 / (03) 6432-9229 (fax) [email protected] To subscribe to the Tokyo Weekender, please call (03) 6666-4924 or email: [email protected] For ad sales inquiries, please call (03) 6666-4924 or email: [email protected] www.tokyoweekender.com Opinions expressed by Weekender contributors are not necessarily those of the publisher JOIN THE CONVERSATION JOIN THE CLUB. BECOME AN INSIDER. Published by BC Media Group www.bulbouscell.com For more information: WWW.TOKYOWEEKENDER.COM/WEEKENDERINSIDERS DECEMBER 2014 www.tokyoweekender.com LE CHEMIN DU TALENT GARANCE THIÉNOT Ambassadrice et propriétaire de la Maison 飲酒は20歳を過ぎてから、飲酒運転は法律で禁止されています。妊娠中や授乳期の飲酒は、月台児・乳児の発育に悪影を与えるおそれがあります。 www.tokyoweekender.com DECEMBER 2014 THIENOT Tokyo Weekender 210X297.indd 1 17/11/2014 10:34 by Jun Edo Orlanes hat is good health either through an employer-based care worth to you? health insurance program or W Depending on the through the national health care country you live in, program. Those who can’t afford the that answer may vary widely. In premiums receive public assistance. the US, the average citizen spends Insurers are all non-profit $8,895 in health costs every year. programs and do not compete. Pa- In contrast, their counterparts in tients have access to all health care wealthy, developed countries such institutions. Most doctors and almost as France ($4,790 per year per all hospitals and clinic settings are in person), or Japan ($4,752 per year the private sector, and patients can per person) pay almost two times freely choose their providers. as little for health care. A comprehensive range of “You get what you pay for” is services are covered under health a common refrain, particularly in insurance packages, including in- the US, but in the case of health and out-patient care, home care, care, is this statement true? Are dental, prescriptions, long-term care, Americans really getting health home nursing for the elderly and care that is two times as effective prosthetics. Cash benefits are given and supportive as the Japanese for childbirth. Though very minimal, or French? An observation of the costs that are not covered include systems in place in both countries routine physical exams, some dental shows that doctors being paid services and over-the-counter drugs. well, and they are using the same When the health care systems level of medical technology as of the US, France, and Japan are France and Japan, and delivering compared, the cost of care has to be high-quality health care. addressed. With Japan and France Japan was the first nation in demonstrating quite clearly that the Asia Pacific region to develop it’s possible to have unconstrained a comprehensive social insurance cost-containment and deliver program, and France’s health sys- excellent health care, the natural tem is set up in a similar manner. response is to ask what the two In both countries, all citizens are countries are doing to keep the costs required to have health insurance, of health care down. DECEMBER 2014 www.tokyoweekender.com HEALTH CARE | FEATURE | 7 Estimated Hospital Stay Cost and Procedure Cost per Person per Year, USD, 2013 (or Nearest Year) UPON ANALYSIS, THREE REASONS BECOME CLEAR: USA¹ Canada² Netherlands² France² Japan² Hospital Stay Cost/Day 18,000 7,707 4,744 4,717 2,000 FEE SCHEDULES MRI 2,929 755 461 280³ 100 In the US, how much a health care service gets paid depends on the kind of insur- Appendectomy 29,499 5,004 4,995 4,558 3,600 ance a patient has. This means that health Normal Delivery 18,329 2,800 2,824 2,894 2,180 care providers can choose patients with insurance policies that pay them more C-Section 27,886 4,820 5,492 5,820 3,000 generously rather than patients covered Cataract Surgery 8,233 1,000 1,815 3,352 2,365 by lower-paying insurers, such as govern- ment-sponsored Medicare co-payment Knee Replacement 51,128 9,910 12,589 12,424 3,213 programs under the Affordable Health Hip Replacement 53,644 11,600 11,513 6,1014 4,126 Care Act.
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