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COMMUNITY

May 17, 2000

Chance to play with sea mammals

This summer, Kamogawa Sea World will offer visitors a chance to play with the park's killer whales, white whales and dolphins.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE

May 14, 2000

Etienne Taenaka

By Vivienne Kenrick

When he was growing up in California, Etienne Taenaka wanted to be an architect. As he watched his mother, a hairdresser, at work, he made an imaginative leap between architecture and "hair-chitecture." "Creating styles, form following function, building shapes and achieving balance," he said. "My mother...

COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE

May 14, 2000

Adjusting traditions

By Jean Pearce

Before we get too far from the holidays, I wonder how many of you were aware of yet another dilemma for Japanese trying to follow traditions in a world where they no longer fit. Among the most spectacular sights of Golden Week that we are suppose to see are the carp streamers hoisted on long poles and...

COMMUNITY

May 14, 2000

Ex-garbage man bags career as pro caddie

By Angela Jeffs

If Jeff Mulberry has any aspirations beyond the odd hole in one, it is to lead as uncomplicated a life as possible. His needs are modest and his interests narrowing down as he focuses on pro golf. Not that he has his eye set on being a winning player, but rather on being the best caddie that friendship,...

COMMUNITY

May 12, 2000

Keeping your money alive and kicking

By Kaori Shoji

Because I come from a family whose men are confirmed gamblers, I grew up thinking that a chronic shortage of o-kane (money) was the normal state in any household. The grownups didn't even call it o-kane but o-ashi (honorable legs), which accounted for the attack of wanderlust money seemed to get when...

COMMUNITY

May 11, 2000

Young women study up for the future

By Mami Maruko

A high attendance in classes ranging from aromatherapy, beadwork and flower arrangement to exotic languages and cooking, offered at department stores and community centers all over Japan, is a sign of a new trend among women in their late 20s and early 30s.

COMMUNITY

May 11, 2000

Breaking free from your limitations

By Beth Lindsay

Tapping your inner powerhouse of creativity, succeeding professionally and attaining a sense of profound peace: These are but a few of the wide range of benefits promised by the Sedona method, now being taught in Tokyo by psychotherapist Stewart Wyndham.

COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE

May 10, 2000

We all have problems

By Jean Pearce

A foreign man, engaged to be married to a Japanese woman, has a problem. They have decided they want to buy a mansion (apartment) rather than pay rent for someone else's property. He has heard that foreigners wishing to buy property or arrange a mortgage are required to have permanent residence status,...

COMMUNITY

May 7, 2000

Activist with gypsy soul returns to roots

By Angela Jeffs

Reading years ago that the majority of us end our lives within 30 km of where we were born, I remember thinking: Not me. But after meeting Margareta Weisser, who knows.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE

May 7, 2000

By Vivienne Kenrick

Mari Ito describes herself as "a photographer who has been taking photos of ethnic minorities and free-range pigs in Yunnan, China, for the past 10 years."

COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE

May 7, 2000

All good things

By Jean Pearce

Here is good news for all Kenny Endo fans, and if you aren't a fan you will be once you attend one of his performances. Kenny is a master of the taiko. Most of you know that taiko is drum, and then there is "odaiko," a huge drum. In general, taiko is to drum like the tea ceremony is to a tea bag. It...

COMMUNITY

May 5, 2000

Two Murakamis mull quake in Japanese life

By Janet Ashby

A look at recent best-seller lists reveals several familiar faces. "Eien no Ko," a two-volume novel about the long-term effects of child abuse, is back with the broadcasting of a TV dramatization (Monday nights on NTV). There's another mystery by Nishimura Kyotaro and a book for improving one's English,...

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell

By Alex K.T. Martin

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