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LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Oct 14, 2001

P-chan gets started under the right track

Have you ever seen the Woody Allen movie "Radio Days"? In it, Woody grows up with his family, living snug-as-bugs in a tiny room underneath the Big Dipper on Coney Island. Every time a roller coaster careens overhead, the walls shake and objects pogo off the tables. Of course, nobody notices. It was...
CULTURE / Books
Oct 14, 2001

Kenzaburo Oe: Bridging the generation gap

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in America, large bookstores have put together special displays on Islam and terrorism, while the cult idolization of the prime minister continues with the publication of a coffee-table book of Koizumi photos (Jun-chan lounging in a robe!). However, as always in recent...
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Oct 14, 2001

Keep on jamming in the free world

One of the ironies of jazz is that it is now more popular in Europe and Japan than in its country of origin. While the fanatic obsession of overseas fans made jazz an important cultural export for the United States after the Second World War, now there is a substantial corps of non-American players no...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 14, 2001

Country roads take them to new homes

Get away. Away from squeezing yourself into a packed train, making your way in a slow-moving human tide up stairs and through ticket gates. From walking in a crowd like a soldier ant, trotting ahead to avoid cigarette smoke from a man in front, only to breathe in foul diesel fumes at intersections on...
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2001

Steps drawn up to fight nuclear, chemical threat

Government ministries and agencies have drawn up antiterrorism measures to deal with attacks involving nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, government officials said Saturday.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 14, 2001

Flash points along the road to recognition

ASIAN AMERICAN DREAMS: The Emergence of an American People, by Helen Zia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000, 319 pp., $26.00 (cloth) The book to read to get up to speed on Asian and Pacific Island Americans (APAs) is Helen Zia's "Asian American Dreams." Part personal memoir, part history, part...
CULTURE / Books
Oct 14, 2001

David Mitchell experiments with success

Like his complex and cleverly constructed novels, a conversation with British writer David Mitchell is enjoyably cerebral and full of references to books, music and out-of-the-way places he has visited. Sitting in the famous sunken garden Shukkei-en in Hiroshima, the city he now calls home, Mitchell,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 14, 2001

The bistro jazzed up to perfection

It's a hard job, as they say -- not that we're complaining. But if there is a down side, it's that the Food File's constant, restless search for new foraging grounds makes it nigh on impossible for us to revisit any of our great new discoveries, let alone keep tabs on all those tried-and-true, all-time...
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2001

Nuclear firms not fearful of terrorism

Japan's electric power companies are continuing to allow the public to visit their nuclear facilities despite security concerns in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks on the United States, company officials said Saturday.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 14, 2001

Time for a quickie and some canoodling

The theme of TV Asahi's new variety show, "Jungle Book" (Tuesday, 7 p.m.) is "making friends with animals all over the world." The producers send "young rangers," who are invariably teenagers, on various "assignments" in foreign countries where they interact on a long-term basis with both domestic and...
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

Second mad cow case reported

Initial tests on the brain of a cow that was butchered at Tokyo's central wholesale market indicate it had mad cow disease, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Friday. If confirmed, it would be the second case of the disease in Japan.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

NTT stalling on competition plan

NTT Corp. has yet to submit a plan aimed at promoting competition in the telecom market as it is still reluctant to reduce equity stakes in its group firms, telecom minister Toranosuke Katayama said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

BOJ goes against popular wisdom

The Bank of Japan decided Friday to keep its monetary policy unchanged, despite persistent doubts about its effectiveness.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

Chinese tariffs to cost Japan's car firms 420 billion yen

Carmakers are likely to miss out on 420 billion yen in earnings in 2002 if China retains its retaliatory import tariffs on Japanese vehicles, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Inc. said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

Fast reporting urged of any anthrax cases

The health ministry has notified medical facilities nationwide to immediately report any patient exhibiting symptoms of exposure to anthrax, ministry officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

Diamond sales shine over Internet

The phrase "a diamond is forever" is used in commercials to tout the value and everlasting luster of the precious gems, but diamonds can be obtained inexpensively at auction or from companies doing business on the Internet.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

Weak yen policy advised

I believe an inflationary policy via a weak yen would be the best prescription for a quick economic recovery.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

Tokyo Game Show opens doors in Chiba

An electronic-game show featuring around 400 new products from 53 domestic and international game software makers kicked off Friday at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

Kurosawa museum signs U.S. directors

U.S. film directors Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese have agreed to chip in on a project to build a museum in Imari, Saga Prefecture, for the legendary moviemaker Akira Kurosawa.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

JAL to post 50 billion yen pretax losses

Japan Airlines said Friday that it is likely to post pretax losses of 50 billion yen in fiscal 2001 on both a parent-only and group basis due to a decline in passengers in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

Matsushita predicts deficit will deepen to 68 billion yen

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. has revised downward its earnings projections for the first half of fiscal 2001, company officials said Friday.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 13, 2001

Jubilo's Nanami sidelined

Japan and Jubilo Iwata midfielder Hiroshi Nanami has had surgery on his injured knee and will be sidelined for about three months, officials of the J. League first division side said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

Vodafone's takeover bid succeeds

Vodafone Group PLC announced Friday that its wholly owned subsidiary successfully finished a takeover bid for Japan Telecom Co., receiving stock offers representing 35.4 percent of the outstanding ordinary shares of Japan's third-largest telecom carrier.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

Ministry says hijack call a false alarm

A call made Friday to Nagoya airport in which a man claimed that a Northwest Airlines plane traveling from Detroit to Manila via Nagoya was going to be hijacked was a false alarm, according to the transport ministry.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

Opposition ridicules Koizumi's concept of proof

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was challenged during a House of Representatives committee session Friday over his idea of what constitutes evidence of guilt.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2001

Japanese abroad told to be on guard following FBI alert

The Foreign Ministry renewed calls Friday to Japanese abroad to ensure their own safety in the wake of an FBI alert on imminent terrorist attacks.

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