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Sian Rees
For Sian Rees's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Nov 16, 2000
Where the schwingers swing
Do you sometimes feel a night out in Roppongi is like a scene from the hip film "Swingers"? You spend the time it takes to quaff a drink and scan the crowd in one bar before you are off to yet another in search of something elusive, somewhere indefinable.
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Nov 2, 2000
New line boosts Levi's street cred
Levi's and well-known New York graffiti artist Futura, whose rare, original artwork has been in demand since he was spraypainting trains and walls back in the '80s, have joined up to collaborate on a limited-edition, Japan-exclusive denim line.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 7, 2000
Ten of the best from Australia
Australian Nicola Townsend's Nanpeidai apartment looks different from my last visit. The furniture is the same, but there is a subtle change in the atmosphere and light. Then I realize that it's the paintings. After a sell-out show of works from her native soil earlier this year, the independent curator is preparing for a second exhibition and so her home has once more become a temporary gallery to works from "Ten Australian Artists."
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Sep 21, 2000
Cosmetic makers target tots
While wearing your school uniform is considered the ultimate in cool, it's little wonder that the next phase is a young face full of slap. Younger and younger girls in Japan are reaching for the rouge and in response cosmetic companies are deliberately targeting teeny-boppers.
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Aug 3, 2000
Dancing your way to fitness
Some medical experts claim a glass of wine is good for your heart, others believe chocolate is an excellent alternative to Prozac, but something they all tend to agree on is that adequate exercise is vital to a healthy life. However, if your idea of working out is a spot of intensive window-shopping you might consider the latest exercise craze hitting Tokyo: dance.
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Jul 6, 2000
Art and design meet status and money
Ignore the rainy season and dream that you are sweating by the sea rather than on the subway. Hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, magazines . . . You probably already protect your skin with Clarins, shield your eyes with Gucci sunglasses, flaunt your bits in a Ralph Lauren bikini, but would you shell out over 22,000 yen for a magazine?
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DEVINE
Jun 1, 2000
Armpits come out from undercover
Get your pits out for the boys. Japan's largest beauty company is hoping to launch a new trend focusing on an often ignored erogenous zone -- the armpit.
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 30, 2000
The fun of slipsliding away
You persevered. You sweated, ignominiously landed on your backside and ignored the relentless pounding of fall after fall so that you could master the art of snow boarding. But now that you feel as cool on the slopes as you thought you looked when you first zipped up your baggy shell pants, you are helplessly addicted. And the snow is melting.
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 16, 2000
Want to know your fortune? Go fish
In the West you might scan your tea leaves for a peek at what the future may hold, but in Japan you are more likely to grab your chopsticks (OK, mouse) for the latest craze -- sushi fortunetelling.
COMMUNITY
Dec 30, 1999
Le Nozze de video
Toss away your Love Getty and forget the formal o-miai (arranged meeting) -- matchmaking has gone hi-tech.
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Jul 15, 1999
In the bag
Danielle Pisani-Salerno is the ultimate bag lady. At the moment her Hiroo home is bursting with handbags in endlessly different shapes and sizes that she has just produced for her new label, Virgo.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 1999
Fall-prone builders get air bag option
The high number of fatal falls at construction sites has prompted a firm to produce a human version of the automobile air bag.
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
May 20, 1999
Hendrixesque
Forget playing air guitar, Konami has done it again. The company that had Travolta wannabees queuing up in video arcade centers to stomp on the Dance Dance Revolution platform has launched a new game for guitar freaks everywhere.
COMMUNITY
May 1, 1999
Atlus' latest offering is just talons of fun
The company that launched Print Club stickers, which had armies of schoolgirls everywhere collecting and swapping mini-photo stickers of themselves, believes it has got its hands on another hit. Atlus Co. in Tokyo has produced a machine that does your nails.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 1999
Atlus' latest offering fueling fingertip fetish
Staff writer
JAPAN
Apr 2, 1999
First bullfight delights recruits, irks activists
Staff writer
LIFE / Style & Design / SIMPLY DIVINE
Apr 1, 1999
Pint-sized polygraph
Forget the millions of dollars spent on impeachment hearings and Kenneth Starr-type harassment.
COMMUNITY
Mar 25, 1999
Teenage visions of the coming century
Ethiopian Eta Ferahu Tarekegne Gatahun loves lasagna and wants to set a sprint record. Sassy Melissa Corlett, a Hong Kong-born Brit, has no doubts that her future will be fantastic. Eka Sriamarwati, a young Balinese trance dancer, lists a tiny hair clip as her most prized possession. And in Tokyo, Nami Fujita, who sees herself in 20 years time as a Vivienne Westwood-wearing housewife, reveals body piercing as her favorite hobby, yet yearns for a time "when I won't be judged by my appearance."
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Japan's former PM Aso meets Trump for talks on security and economy
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in New York on Tuesday. The Japanese government’s top spokesman on Wednesday played down the meeting as one conducted "in the capacity of one lawmaker" and “without the government’s involvement.”
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

Podcast

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

Longform

Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores
By Alex K.T. Martin

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