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Features

Feb 15, 2004

Shelters from the storm

Japan's small 'snack' bars may be a mystery to most, but to their loyal and mainly male customers they are cozy havens where they can unwind with friends and share life's ups and downs with a mama-san who's always there for them

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LIFE / Travel

Jan 30, 2004

Atami hosts traditional geisha performances for tourists on a budget

Atami's geisha have created a more affordable performance collection for tourists who want to experience traditional Japanese culture on a budget.

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COMMUNITY

Jan 16, 2004

Your geisha fantasy fulfilled

It was high time for a break from the pressures of jobs and family.

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COMMUNITY

Dec 21, 2003

Moved by the spirit of song

It was shaping up to be a Japanese Christmas like any other.

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COMMUNITY

Nov 30, 2003

all systems GO!

In the game of go, there are no cards, no dice, no tricky moves like chess or complicated formulas to remember as there are in poker or mah jongg. And though in principle the game is simplicity itself, go is in a mathematical stratosphere all of its own.

COMMUNITY

Nov 30, 2003

In the heat of hand-to-hand combat

Lest you we befuddle with a surfeit of theory and lore, how about a sample game of go with you, dear reader, taking Black -- which always goes first -- playing against White?

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COMMUNITY

Nov 16, 2003

In the realm of catwalk queens

Lipstick, potato chips, box lunches, duct tape, clothing racks, paper cups, hairspray, mascara, big round mirrors facing every which way like satellite dishes, trays of fake finger nails, an arsenal of makeup brushes, Tully's coffee, Marlboro Lights, Frontier Menthols and lots and lots and lots of smoke.

COMMUNITY

Oct 19, 2003

On a recent Saturday, some 80 delegates from the National Union of General Workers, Tokyo South, trudged through cold rain to gather at a conference hall near Mount Fuji for their annual meeting. Greetings were kept brief and to the point. After all, with the sour economy putting such pressure on unions, everybody had a lot on their minds.

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COMMUNITY

Oct 19, 2003

A timeline of protest in Japanese history

Japanese labor is today characterized by "enterprise unions," company-by-company groupings that account for almost all of the country's labor organizations. Lacking the militancy of their forebears, these unions are credited by some with enabling Japan's postwar economic boom but blamed by others for steadily worsening job conditions.

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COMMUNITY / CLOSE-UP

Oct 5, 2003

Think back to 1984, before the Japanese government had recruited armies of foreign-born English instructors to internationalize the countryside and when gaijin commentators on television were all but unheard of.

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COMMUNITY

Oct 5, 2003

World's first ghetto is a place apart

Mention Venice, and thoughts inevitably turn to St. Mark's Square and the golden mosaics of the basilica there, the Ca' d'Oro palazzo with its view over the Grand Canal, or a handful of other great landmarks that recall the cultural vibrancy of this once-independent city-state that dominated Mediterranean life in the Middle Ages.

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Events / Events Outside Tokyo

Sep 28, 2003

Doors of perception opened by multimedia

The plaza at the United Nations University in Tokyo, typically so serene, will be awhirl with activity next week when a large international cast performs "Seeing the World Through Different Eyes," a multimedia extravaganza that seeks to stimulate the senses through music, dance and light -- and in so doing, achieve a higher social purpose.

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ENVIRONMENT

Sep 11, 2003

Dolphins: To kill them or let them be

Japanese, just like anybody else, love dolphins.

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COMMUNITY

Aug 24, 2003

Great works of art take time.

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COMMUNITY

Jul 27, 2003

Just go with the flow

You know the summer routine: The sun comes up, the mercury goes up . . . and the heat and humidity get you down, down, down.

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COMMUNITY

Jun 8, 2003

In step with beauty, life and death

Dancer Akiko Motofuji is an institution in her own right. She began studying ballet more than seven decades ago at the age of 3 but -- inspired by the burst of artistic experimentation that swept postwar Japan -- in the 1940s she discarded her points and plunged instead into the world of avant-garde dance.

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COMMUNITY

Jun 8, 2003

Butoh: Dance in a surreal realm

We are between sanity and insanity, beauty and ugliness. Good and evil don't matter; emotion lurches from serenity to rage without warning. East and West, too, have merged: Leering Japanese ghosts waltz to Edith Piaf; a forest hag dressed for a Versailles ball strikes wild kabuki poses. Fear turns frolicksome at a soiree deep inside a nuclear-fallout shelter.

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COMMUNITY / CLOSE-UP

Jun 1, 2003

Looking back on a 'rudderless' land

In the four years since Howard French took the helm as The New York Times' Tokyo bureau chief, he has witnessed -- and covered -- the rise of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the fall of his former foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka, the scandalous accident at the uranium-processing facility in the village of Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, and the historic summit between Japan and North Korea last September.

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COMMUNITY

May 18, 2003

Heavens above: a job from hell

Most reporters would have jumped at the assignment, with gusto.

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COMMUNITY

Apr 13, 2003

Black where they belong

Rewind to September 1986. Yasuhiro Nakasone, prime minister of a self-assured, economically powerful Japan, was taking swipes at American minorities -- especially African-Americans.

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.

[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

When trying to trace your lineage in Japan, the "koseki" is the most important form of document you'll encounter.

Climbing the branches of a Japanese family tree

By Alex K.T. Martin

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