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LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME

Feb 14, 2002

Utah host to more than Olympics

By Steven L. Kent

With the 2002 Winter Olympics happening in Salt Lake City, the world will recognize that Utah is America's greatest mecca for skiing. But Utah is also an exporter of video games.

LIFE / Travel / ON THE ARCHIPELA-GO

Feb 11, 2002

Cold lands but warm hearts

By Victoria James

The literally hang out the flags for visitors to the small town of Nishikawa in the snowy foothills of Yamagata's Dewa Sanzan mountains. A large British Union Jack was crossed with a Japanese Hinomaru over the entrance to Tamaki, a riverside restaurant famous for its Hina ryori (Doll's Festival food),...

LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL

Feb 11, 2002

California prehistory mired in La Brea tar pits

By Midori Paxton and Hugh

LA BREA, Calif. -- The world, 40,000 years ago -- The weather's perfect. A warm breeze from the Pacific rustles the palms, there's the sharp tang of juniper and pine in the air, and the nameless mountains, which rise beyond the plain that will one day be Los Angeles, glow mauve in the early morning sun....

LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU

Feb 10, 2002

Taste of a new season springs eternal in nanohana

By Rick Lapointe

There are several children's songs that herald the coming of spring by declaring that the nanohana has blossomed. Brilliant yellow fields of these first flowers of warm weather dot the countryside, and nanohana — young shoots of the aburana — are one of the first vegetables to appear on the vernal...

LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE

Feb 10, 2002

Home with the best

By Jude Brand

Being the youngest in a large family meant, in my case, becoming an auntie when I was still in my teens. And during my long self-exile in Japan, I patiently awaited the arrival of a new generation of travelers -- but then started feeling neglected as one nephew and niece after another circled the world...

LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND

Feb 10, 2002

Uncork a bottle of pure passion

By Melanie Campbell-Drane

This Valentine's Day, ignore the boxes of waxy, stale chocolate at the supermarket. Give up on forcing rhymes into a bad love poem. Never mind the refrigerated roses from the florist, their heads already on the verge of drooping.

LIFE / Food & Drink

Feb 10, 2002

Wine-lovers go loco for Coco

By Victoria James

ASHIKAGA, Tochigi Pref. -- Five hectares of misty hillside in Tochigi Prefecture contain one of Japan's best-kept secrets -- a tiny vineyard that may one day become this country's first producer of world-class wines.

LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Feb 10, 2002

Hantei: Kushi-age on a higher plane

By Robbie Swinnerton

There are still people who believe the idea of a classy kushi-age is a downright contradiction in terms. After all, they reason, it's a cross between two basic, blue-collar staples: yakitori and tonkatsu. How could such a mongrel hybrid, better suited to greasy neighborhood nomiya, ever be worthy of...

LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM

Feb 8, 2002

Making a big difference in little places

By Everett Kennedy Brown

Rachel Rawlings was surprised when she ran into two famous Japanese comedians in the parking lot outside her local village office. The popular television stars, Shofukutei Tsurube and Kazuki Enari, were astonished, too. Why was a young Australian woman living in a fishing village in Kochi Prefecture?...

LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE

Feb 8, 2002

It's time to say: Let's talk about sex, babies

By Alice Gordenker

In all my years of studying Japanese, I never learned the word I need right now. How do you say "nocturnal emission"? I need to know because my 10-year-old son is starting sex education at school, and I haven't told him that part of "the facts of life." His Japanese is pretty good, but I think he'll...

LIFE / Travel / FLOWER WALK

Feb 7, 2002

Bloomin' good fortune in winter

By Sumiko Enbutsu

A Greek myth tells of the beautiful youth Adonis, beloved of Aphrodite, who was killed by a wild boar while hunting. A flower growing on the spot where he fell was stained crimson by his blood and was named Adonis aestivalis.

LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD

Feb 7, 2002

Geek culture bashing

http://homepage.mac.com/jcarusone/iMovieTheater2.html The unveiling of the new iMac has reignited the Mac vs. Windows debate all over the Internet, with journalists, computer users, economists and other eccentrics predicting whether the latest Apple hardware/software combo will take a bite out of Microsoft's...

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.

From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past

By Alex K.T. Martin

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