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COMMUNITY
Jun 9, 2002

Kayaking on the high seas

We struck off before dawn, finally. I was annoyed and tired of waiting. We dragged our kayaks down the ramp through the water and scraped into the sea. The air was damp and chill. I had just spent seven hours drinking beer and shivering on a plastic sheet spread on the concrete dock as I tried to get...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 9, 2002

The harbinger of a new era

JAPANESE RULES: Why the Japanese Needed Football and How They Got It, by Sebastian Moffett. London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2002, 207 pp., 10 pounds (paper) In elucidating the cultural context, symbolism and social implications of the world's most popular game as it has evolved from irrelevance to obsession...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Jun 9, 2002

Playing off the beaten track

Certain tensions in the jazz world were clearly evident at the 10th annual Yokohama Jazz Promenade on May 25th and 26th. The performers split into two camps: those focusing on instrumental virtuosity and those avoiding the staple four-beat ching-chick-a-ching-chick-a-ching rhythm. The plasticity of rhythm...
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 9, 2002

Japan controls its destiny

YOKOHAMA -- Japan will stick to its own brand of soccer in seeking a win against Russia in Sunday's crucial Group H game in Yokohama, Japan coach Philippe Troussier said Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Jun 9, 2002

A taste of pure gold

This year's National New Sake Tasting Competition, or Zenkoku Shinshu Kampyoukai, just wrapped up in Hiroshima. This historically and culturally significant event has been held since 1910, and Japan is the only country in the world that runs such a competition for the indigenous alcoholic beverage.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 9, 2002

Words that rode on the high notes

KABUKI PLAYS ON STAGE: Volume I -- Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766, edited by James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001, 192 pp., profusely illustrated, $48 (cloth) This is the first volume in a monumental four-volume series that brings together the texts of...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 9, 2002

In publishing, the modern girls have it

World Cup fever may have taken over the Japanese media, but the bookstores are full of books on language and education. The sales of books for learning English are perhaps connected to spring and its association in Japan with the beginning of the academic year and the hiring of new employees by the corporate...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 9, 2002

The walls that connect us

"Good fences make good neighbors." Which means -- if we extrapolate this bit of Robert Frost wisdom a little further -- Japan should have some of the best neighbors in the world.
LIFE / Travel
Jun 9, 2002

In step with the real Japan

We both confess to complete and utter madness, but we've been having a whale of a time -- and not only down in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the International Whaling Commission had its recent roughhouse, and where we completely pigged out on kujira no niku (whale meat) before heading on to...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Jun 9, 2002

What's red, red and very, very sexy?

Red is an electric color. It incites bulls to charge and people to revolt. It is the color under which more than one country (and soccer team) rallies. It is the color of lust and passion. Red is provocative, but the emotion it evokes depends on the person and, sometimes, on the time of day.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2002

Rakuten eyes full shopping via mobiles

Rakuten Inc., operator of Japan's largest Internet shopping site, Rakuten Ichiba, plans to make its full online shopping service available on mobile phones by the end of the year, company officials said Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 9, 2002

Welcome to the great out-of-doors

Every year around this time we get the same plaintive inquiries: "Isn't there anywhere half decent in this city where you can eat outdoors?" And, as always, the answer is "yes -- and no."
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU
Jun 9, 2002

Yasai no Yoshino-ni: Now here's some real food for thought . . .

This past week I tagged along with veteran New York Times food writer Elizabeth Andoh to Hakuun'an, a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant and teahouse associated with Manpukuji Temple near Uji City in Kyoto Prefecture. Manpukuji is the head temple of the Obaku sect of Zen Buddhism, Japan's third largest after...
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 8, 2002

Swedes bring down Super Eagles

KOBE -- Sweden moved one step closer to the next round after rallying to a 2-1 win over Nigeria in their Group F clash on Friday afternoon at Kobe Wing Stadium.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 8, 2002

England, Beckham get even

SAPPORO -- Sometimes sport has a way of exacting revenge in the sweetest way possible. In 1998 England bowed out of the World Cup to Argentina on penalties. David Beckham returned home in shame after being sent off following a red card for a tempestuous kick at an opponent. On Friday night in the Sapporo...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2002

Palestinian reform paradox

BEIRUT -- Following the hammer blows of the Palestinian intifada and Israeli repression, Palestinian reforms are the great new prescription for Middle East peacemaking, which is to be directed by an international conference.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 8, 2002

Japan's fate in World Cup on line

KOBE -- After earning its first ever point in the World Cup with a 2-2 draw against Belgium on Tuesday, Japan faces a significant challenge when it meets Russia on Sunday night at International Stadium Yokohama.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2002

Diet mulls fate of mentally ill criminals

The Diet is now debating a bill that would create a system whereby medical doctors and judges would decide together whether someone with a psychiatric disorder who commits a serious crime should be hospitalized.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2002

Government to fly Japanese out of troubled India

The government will charter a flight out of India on Monday for Japanese nationals amid the country's escalating tension with Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 8, 2002

Time to talk defense

The Asia-Pacific region is home to some of the world's hottest flash points, yet security discussions remain woefully ad hoc. There is no regular dialogue forum for regional defense officials, and when leaders do get together, security issues rank second to economic issues. That may change after last...
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 8, 2002

Morientes strikes twice as Spain goes marching on

CHONJU, South Korea -- Spain booked its place in the second round of the World Cup with what was eventually a straightforward 3-1 win over Paraguay here on Thursday, although it was the South Americans who had actually taken the lead early in the game.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2002

State targets single moms in bid to fight divorce rate

In reaction to the growing number of divorces in Japan, the government said Friday it will restrict single mothers' eligibility to receive child-care benefits.
COMMENTARY
Jun 8, 2002

A right royal celebration

LONDON -- Queen Elizabeth has just celebrated her Golden Jubilee (50 years) in splendid style. Her popularity has never been as high as it is today and people are now said to be planning for her Diamond Jubilee (60 years).
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2002

Yanagisawa rips regionals over deposit guarantee

Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa blasted several regional financial institutions Friday for asking the government to keep the full guarantee on current deposits beyond its planned termination date of April 1, 2003.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2002

1.4% GDP spurt fails to lift gloom

Brisk exports saw Japan's gross domestic product grow 1.4 percent in the first quarter, marking a turnaround from three straight quarters of contraction, the government said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2002

Condo's height approved by court

The Tokyo High Court on Friday reversed a lower court decision that said a 44-meter-high condominium in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, was in violation of a municipal ordinance by being too tall.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2002

Seibu to cut 15% of full-time jobs

Seibu Department Stores Ltd. plans to cut some 800 jobs, or about 15 percent of its full-time workforce of 5,300, by the end of March, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2002

Foreign-exchange reserves hit record high of 420 billion yen

Japan's dollar-buying operations in May pushed the nation's foreign-exchange reserves to a record $419.65 billion at the end of that month, up $12.95 billion from the previous record of $406.7 billion, logged a month earlier, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
Japanese markets brace for triple whammy if opposition wins big
A Sanseito campaign van in Shinjuku. The populist party is gaining ground and challenging the more centrist parties.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
In Upper House race, younger voters in Tokyo turn to DPP for new direction
The Tokyo district has the highest number of candidates in the 2025 Upper House election with 32 people in the running for seven seats.
Concerns grow in Japan over possible Russian interference in Sunday’s election
A think tank researcher said anti-government propaganda by Russian bot accounts was what has made the small far-right party Sanseito so popular leading up to the Upper House election.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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