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Geoff Botting
For Geoff Botting's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 26, 2002
Neither here nor there: recipe for mayhem
Swimming against the current in Japan has never been a good idea, even if you are armed to the teeth with logic and common sense.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 22, 2002
Cyclists ride the wave of local crackdown
Japan's authorities never set out to make their communities bicycle friendly. Rather, history, climate and population density have contributed to making much of Japan a cyclist's dream.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 15, 2002
1967: Summer of love -- and Bond in Japan
The summer of 1967 was not only the summer of love, but the summer of James Bond in Japan. "You Only Live Twice," the fifth James Bond movie, debuted in cinemas throughout the world 35 summers ago.
COMMUNITY
Jul 18, 2002
Japan's strange brand of (non) nationalism
The subject of 9/11 came up while I had dinner with a group of friends last autumn.
COMMUNITY
Jul 4, 2002
The land of the early rising, and setting, sun
The issue of daylight-saving time is back in the news.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 6, 2002
Looking at the bright side of Japan's cash woes
One of the most soul-destroying experiences of my life in Japan occurred back in 1986.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 23, 2002
Buyers be wares -- shopping consumes Japan
I was once asked to translate a pamphlet published by the municipal government of one of the most beautiful and historically endowed cities in Japan. The material was aimed at foreign companies and their expat employees to entice them to the city.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2001
Japanese opt for domestic travel
Akihiro is planning to spend some of his New Year's holiday at a hot spring resort.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.

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