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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 1, 2001

Innovative strategies that get the message across

The pointlessness of election campaigns in Japan is dramatically exemplified by the sound trucks screaming the names of their respective candidates over and over. The stupidity of election campaigns in Japan is audaciously exemplified by something that happened in my own neighborhood last week prior...
CULTURE / Music
Jul 1, 2001

The gospel according to Beyonce

A little-discussed truism of R&B is that female vocalists benefited more from Michael Jackson than male vocalists did, and none more than Karyn White. Only gays and black teenage girls seemed to appreciate White's potential as a revolutionary force in black dance music, someone whose natural gift for...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 1, 2001

Oh, the places they'll go and the people they'll be

Ultraman, Japan's original TV superhero, first appeared 35 years ago, and since then there has been a string of Ultramen who adhere to the same cosmic rules (he can only remain on Earth for three minutes maximum) but who have embodied different values in line with the changing times.
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Jul 1, 2001

Underneath the sidewalk, it's anarchy

Tokyo's underground live houses are crawling with bands who refuse to play by the rules, who are willing to take musical experimentation to such extremes that they've given up all hope -- that's if they gave a toss in the first place -- of making money out of what they love most: making sounds.
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Jul 1, 2001

Another shade of white

During the red wine boom of the '90s, one shade of white prevailed: Chardonnay. Most often produced in a big, rich, oaky international style, it was the heaviest, "reddest" white wine on the scene.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 1, 2001

1910 Exhibition remembered

THE BRITISH PRESS AND THE JAPAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION OF 1910. Edited by Hirokichi Mutsu. With a preface by Yonosuke Ian Mutsu and an introduction by William H. Coaldrake. Production: The University of Melbourne: Curzon Press, London. 212 pp., with b/w illustration. Unpriced. This is an enlarged and...
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 1, 2001

Rhodes bangs two HRs as Buffaloes rout 'Wave

Tuffy Rhodes hit a pair of two-run homers to highlight Kintetsu's 13-hit attack and Hiroki Yamamura picked up his first complete-game win as the Pacific League's front-running Buffaloes beat the Orix BlueWave 8-1 Saturday at Hakodate Stadium.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 2001

Eat right to beat the heat

Japan's long, hot, humid summer can certainly put a damper on both mind and body. So what kind of food, if any, will help you cope with the intense heat and make you feel cool?
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 2001

If you can't stand the heat . . .

It's that time of year again.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 1, 2001

In praise of traditional values

Rustic, welcoming, friendly, relaxed -- these are not the adjectives you associate most readily with Daikanyama these days. Long since gutted as a neighborhood, there's precious little sense of community left among all the brand-name boutiques and slick, designer restaurants that have taken over the...
CULTURE / Books
Jul 1, 2001

Nakasone as No. 1 reformer

JAPANESE EDUCATION REFORM: Nakasone's Legacy, by Christopher P. Hood. London and New York: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge, 2001. 222 pp., 50 UK pounds (cloth). When neoconservatism was riding high, a leftwing cartoonist drew a pastiche of Edward Hopper's famous painting of a sad roadside...
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 2001

Take me where the sun don't shine

Another day, another scorcher. What's an overheated person to do?
EDITORIALS
Jun 30, 2001

Uniting to wage war on AIDS

In a declaration issued by the United Nations General Assembly this week, the nations of the world have committed themselves to wage war in earnest against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As the U.N. member-states are pledged to reach targets by specific dates to drastically reduce the incidence of the disease...
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Shiokawa retains key bureaucrats

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Friday he will retain Vice Finance Minister Toshiro Muto and Haruhiko Kuroda, vice finance minister for international affairs, in their posts for another year.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

More elderly than there are young

The number of people aged 65 or older in Japan has topped those in the youngest age bracket for the first time since the national census was launched in 1920, the government said Friday in a preliminary report.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Diet passes three education reform bills

Three education reform bills, including one advocating community service for students in elementary, junior high and high schools, were passed by the Diet on Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Hiranuma to talk with four oil-rich countries

Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma will visit four Middle East countries in July to promote cooperation in the energy sector and assist Japanese companies operating in the oil industry in the region, it was announced Friday.
COMMENTARY
Jun 30, 2001

Koizumi: a new type of leader

Two months have passed since the inauguration of the popular administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Thanks to the prime minister's enormous popularity, the Liberal Democratic Party easily triumphed in this week's election for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, which was the first test for...
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

India aiming to increase literacy rate

An Indian government official charged with improving the nation's literacy is confident the country's current goal of achieving a 75 percent literacy rate by 2005 is within reach.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Mbeki to get invitation for October visit

Reflecting a recent foreign-policy focus on Africa, Japan plans to invite South African President Thabo Mbeki as a state guest in early October, government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Panel drafts debt-waiving guidelines for troubled corporate borrowers

A panel of debtors and creditors on Friday drafted a set of guidelines for debt waivers in an effort to raise transparency in a system accused of distorting market principles.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Takuma served fresh warrant over stabbings

OSAKA — Police served a fresh arrest warrant on Mamoru Takuma on Friday on charges of stabbing seven schoolgirls to death and injuring 12 others in an attack June 8 at an Osaka elementary school.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Japan to propose holding an Asian IT conference

Economic minister Heizo Takenaka said Friday he will visit Singapore and Malaysia next week and propose holding an international conference on information technology.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

NTT launches L-mode Internet service

In a bid to halt the ongoing demise of fixed phone services, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone group on Friday launched L-mode, a text-based Internet browsing service that does not require a computer.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Matsushita warned over unfair trading

The Fair Trade Commission on Friday warned Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. against urging wholesalers and retailers not to sell its products to discount stores, FTC officials said.
COMMENTARY
Jun 30, 2001

NATO errors led to Macedonian disaster

WASHINGTON -- Leave it to NATO to turn a problem into a crisis. Two years ago, America spurred ethnic Albanian separatism by kicking Serbian forces out of Kosovo. Today NATO is fomenting civil war in Macedonia by its maladroit intervention.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2001

India and Pakistan both stand to gain

The sudden invitation extended by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to attend a summit talk in New Delhi might have taken some observers by surprise but in reality it is a calculated move based on South Asian geopolitics.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2001

Kids' haiku published by JAL Foundation

More than 210,000 haiku from 22 countries and in 16 languages were submitted by children aged 15 and under to a recent international competition organized by the JAL Foundation.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2001

Yagi tapped as new envoy to IMF

Ken Yagi, a deputy director general of the Finance Ministry's International Bureau, will soon become Japan's next executive director at the International Monetary Fund, a senior ministry official said Friday.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
China and Russia start joint military drills in Sea of Japan
Russian and Chinese naval officers take part in a ceremony Thursday ahead of the start of joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan, following the arrival of Chinese military vessels in Vladivostok, Russia.
Kamchatka quake may have awakened volcano dormant for 600 years, Russia says
Kamchatka. Krasheninnikov Bay
Italy's fast fashion hub becomes Chinese mafia battlefield
Signs for fast-fashion factories in Prato, Italy, on Friday. Chinese crime groups in the district thrive on the "Prato system" rife with corruption in the fast-fashion sector.
Extreme heat in Japan set to peak this week
People shield their eyes from the sun as they walk through a street on a hot day in Tokyo on July 26.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
From Osaka to the NHL: Jordan Spence hopes to inspire young Japanese hockey players
Ottawa Senators defenseman Jordan Spence helps lead the Dreamskate Japan hockey camp in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on July 5.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
By Jason Coskrey

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