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Sun., May 20, 2012
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WEEK 3
After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 last year, the performance of the spectacularly tall Tokyo Sky Tree going up in the capital's downtown Sumida Ward became a subject of heightened interest to experts, residents and the general public alike. |
Water supply cut off over formaldehyde
Five water-purification plants in Chiba, Saitama and Gunma prefectures halt some filtration operations after hazardous formaldehyde is detected, stirring fears the contamination occurred in a major river system serving the Kanto region. DPJ may try to extend Diet till year's end to get tax hike OK
Executives of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan are considering a long extension for the current Diet session, including all the way to the end of the year. Japanese woman, 73, again oldest atop Everest
A Japanese woman stuns the mountaineering world by successfully climbing the world's tallest mountain at the age of 73. Kansai leaders vow 15% cut in summer electricity use |
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By ED ODEVEN
The two-time defending champion Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix book their place in the bj-league championship game.
BASKETBALLBy ED ODEVEN
SUMO
WEEK 3
By BRETT BULL
After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 last year, the performance of the spectacularly tall Tokyo Sky Tree going up in the capital's downtown Sumida Ward became a subject of heightened interest to experts, residents and the general ...
WEEK 3By ERIKO ARITA
WEEK 3By NOBUKO TANAKA
By DANIEL ROBSON
When the Nippon Budokan was built in 1964, its architects probably never envisaged it one day resembling a massive nightclub filled with hundreds of laser beams in every shade of neon as three women in lightup minidresses danced like finely ...
'The Muppets'
By KAORI SHOJI
The Muppets franchise gets a thorough dusting off and a major makeover in "The Muppets," but it's probably the parents, and not the kids, who will most appreciate the effort. This is the first Muppets movie to come out since ...
'Potechi (Chips)'By MARK SCHILLING
'Dark Shadows'By GIOVANNI FAZIO
By ROBBIE SWINNERTON
Nowhere does tonkatsu like Tonki. Of all the restaurants in Tokyo that serve those ever-popular cutlets of breaded, deep-fried pork — and they number in their thousands — nowhere stands out quite the way Tonki does. ...
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By ROBBIE SWINNERTON
By SKYE HOHMANN
I was thinking about Narai today. It sprang to mind, unbidden, while I was driving somewhere else, and all day visions of the little streets and old buildings haunted me. Memories double-exposed over the place I was really ...
By HILLEL WRIGHT
By SALLY KIKUCHI
By TOMOKO OTAKE
Shusaku Arakawa (1936-2010) was an enigmatic man. The late Japan-born, New York-based artist and his partner, Madeline Gins, once jointly declared they had decided "not to die," and even added that it was "immoral" for people to have to die. ...
By HAN ZHANG
The pick of this week's specials at Japan's hotels and restaurants.
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