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Ed Gutierrez
For Ed Gutierrez's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
LIFE / Travel
Jun 24, 2001
Spanish city puts its foot down on dog-do plague
MADRID -- To keep them clean, most cities have their own army of street cleaners. More meticulous cities employ leaf blowers and tree-branch cutters. Madrid goes so far as to employ its own force of dog-poop cleaners.
LIFE / Travel
Jan 31, 2001
Britain's secondhand bookshop Mecca
Tottenham Court Road and Charing Cross may be the book centers of London, but the Mecca for secondhand books in Britain is on the English/Welsh border. With more than 30 secondhand bookshops, tiny Hay-on-Wye bills itself as the "town of books."
CULTURE / Music
Oct 21, 2000
Songs and sausages in Balkan backwoods
KOPRIVSHTITSA, Bulgaria -- Bulgaria may be one of the worst places to visit in Europe if you're looking for an advanced level of economic development, but it is a great place to go if you want a music festival where you can take off your shirt.
COMMUNITY
Jul 2, 2000
Lovers of blood and sand form Tauro Tokyo Club
There are a huge variety of clubs in Japan. Table-tennis clubs and social dance clubs, hostess clubs and clubs where you can polish up your karaoke. But there is only one club devoted to the art of bullfighting.
LIFE / Travel
Dec 9, 1999
Rise and fall of a Japanese matador
SEVILLE, Spain -- Atsuhiro Shimoyama never planned on becoming a bullfighter. Growing up in the greater Tokyo region in the late 1980s, he opted out of going to college, and instead bummed around searching for something meaningful to do during Japan's wildly inflating bubble years.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 1998
Lower costs fuel boom in exotic, quirky overseas weddings
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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world