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LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE

Feb 17, 2002

The heart of the jungle

By Jude Brand

While the ink on this page was still drying, several dozen bankers were careening toward the hangover of a lifetime. Of course, a Sunday hangover is nothing unusual for the average salaried employee, but for these chosen few -- these fast-track Masters of the Universe with brain cells aplenty to burn,...

LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU

Feb 17, 2002

Mmmm . . . tastes like crab

By Rick Lapointe

In virtually every cuisine on the planet, there are attempts to dress food up and make it look like something it isn't. Whether it's a classical Chinese cook carving vegetables to make them look like a phoenix, or a French chef twisting his bread dough to resemble a lobster, food often appears in costume....

LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Feb 17, 2002

Shonzui: Right at home with fruits of the vine

By Robbie Swinnerton

We finally made it to Shonzui the other day. Not that it's particularly hard to find, it's just that it has taken us far too long to get around to visiting this friendly little wine bar down in Roppongi.

LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM

Feb 15, 2002

Lifting weights and building character

By Everett Kennedy Brown

When Feng Ming received the official letter inviting him to come to Japan, he was prepared to say no. It was 1999 and China, the undisputed powerhouse in the weightlifting world, was preparing for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. As a coach at Nanking Athletic University, Ming was training some of the country's...

LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL

Feb 15, 2002

Pilgrims taking the long and winding road to ramen heaven

By Kaori Shoji

One mind-boggling feature of Japan's media is its sheer, singleminded dedication to and passionate obsession with food. This especially applies to the genre known as menrui (noodles). From somen and soba to Vietnamese pho and supa (spaghetti), the Japanese have always had an inordinate love for nagai...

LIFE / Lifestyle / LEARNING BY HEART

Feb 15, 2002

Shitamachi schoolmates still together at 70

By Liane Wakabayashi

What is the secret of lifelong friendships that form in elementary school? I would never have thought to ask myself that question until my father-in-law announced he wouldn't be home for Sunday's family dinner because he was attending a party. Though he put it quite casually, the amazing thing to me...

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.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.

80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped

By Elizabeth Beattie

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