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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 18, 2008
Photo exhibit illustrates effort behind battle against HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a French organization also known as Doctors Without Borders, open a photo exhibition this weekend showing how HIV/AIDS patients in Kenya, and the medical professionals who care for them, cling to hope in desperate circumstances.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 11, 2008
YIWC: classical music and tea for a good cause
A charity concert with afternoon tea will be held by Yokohama International Women's Club on April 17 at the Yokohama Grand InterContinental Hotel in the Minatomirai waterfront area.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 4, 2008
Alien exhibition lands in Odaiba
Are we the only intelligent life in the vast universe?
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 21, 2008
Anime universe shifts to Tokyo
Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008, one of the world's largest animation conventions, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from March 27 to 30.
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 20, 2008
Are Japan's leaders merely readers on climate change?
Japanese people often wrongly pronounce "l" as "r," or "r" as "l." So, "leader" can be pronounced as "reader."
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 14, 2008
22nd Kurashiki Music Festival fetes choice ensembles
The Kurashiki Music Festival, with concerts featuring a wide range of music, will be held in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, from March 15 to 23.
Japan Times
LIFE / COSPLAY CULTURE
Mar 9, 2008
Business booms as Japanese subculture soars
The last two decades have seen kosupure ("cosplay," or "costume play") blossoming from being a local Japanese subculture to a thriving worldwide trend — and business.
Japan Times
LIFE / COSPLAY CULTURE
Mar 9, 2008
Fashion fantasies come to life in cosplay
Silver wig, blue contact lenses, a mock sword and a (kind of) knight's costume.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Mum fights nuke power
Yurika Ayukawa, the special adviser on climate change to the environmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature Japan (WWF Japan), believes the key to combating global warming lies in changing humans' means of generating energy.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Mother of 2 leads the way
Izumi Washitani is not only a professor of conservation ecology at the top-flight University of Tokyo, she's also a committed activist who applies her studies to restoring threatened biodiversity.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2008
Japan's 'pouch curry' turns a tasty 40
Fancy a feast? Un petit peu du foie gras, perchance? A slice or three of the finest Aberdeen Angus roast beef, if you will — with lashings of horseradish, sans doute. Or, drop a plastic pouch of curry into boiling water, wait for 3 minutes, pour it over rice and — voila! — you have...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 8, 2008
Elias in homage
Brazilian jazz pianist and vocalist Eliane Elias will perform songs from her latest album, "Something for You: Eliane Elias Sings and Plays Bill Evans," when she visits Tokyo this month.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 18, 2008
Quilters keep the Tokyo Dome all sewn up
Here's an event that's ripe for a bit of blanket coverage — The Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2008. At the annual event — subtitled "Fabric, Needles and Thread Exhibition" — hundreds of quilts from Japan and overseas will be exhibited.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jan 13, 2008
Shimmying to fitness in South Seas style
Their hips swathed in tight, colorful skirts, and their shoulders bare above tight tube tops, about 30 women shimmy and shake sexily to fast, powerful drum rhythms and the cheerful melody of Tahitian banjo.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 11, 2008
Find a warm glow in the Niigata snow
Villagers in Niigata rebuilding after a 2004 earthquake need your help to survive heavy snowfall this winter. Volunteers to help remove snow from houses and roads in Niigata Prefecture are being recruited by JEN, an international NGO based in Tokyo.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 4, 2008
Doggy style hits the Tokyo catwalk
New Year Dog Party, a festive treat for canines and canine-lovers, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight on Jan. 12 and 13.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2006
New rules to doom used electrical goods shops?
The phones at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have been ringing off the hook since early February when it suddenly and quietly changed its enforcement of a 2001 law on electrical appliance safety.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Mar 19, 2006
Creative expression is the need of their souls
Reciting in a rap rhythm, a young man read his poem in a low, strong voice as 10 others around him listened intently.
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2006
Toyota launches first Lexus hybrid engine-equipped
Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday unveiled the Lexus GS450h, the first hybrid in the luxury sedan's lineup.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2006
Architect group to offer directory of highly trained members
A nationwide organization of architects will publicize later this month the names and addresses of architects who have taken training courses on the latest technologies and construction regulations, the group said Monday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Human bone-like objects found at Nippon Steel plant’s molten iron pot, with one worker missing
Police believe it’s highly possible that human bones found in a molten iron pot at Nippon Steel's Oita factory belong to a missing male employee.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Man suspected of using smart glasses to cheat on Waseda University exams
The Waseda University campus in Tokyo. An 18-year-old male test-taker is suspected of using smart glasses to cheat during the university's entrance exam.
Japanese billionaire sues Meta over investment scams using his image
Entrepreneurs Yusaku Maezawa (second from right) and Takafumi Horie (third from right) attend a study session on fake social media ads and investment scams at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on April 10.
Japanese rap creates its mecca in Pop Yours
Tokyo-based artist Jumadiba says he forgoes the label of simply “rap” for his music because the Japanese rap scene isn’t confined to a particular sound.
Who’s toughest on China? Biden’s tariff tactic ups ante as election looms.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about new actions to protect American workers and businesses from China's "unfair" trade practices, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.

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