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Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 21, 2001

No new faces, just old hands

In November, the Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo offers its annual two-part kaomise performance. Kaomise, meaning "face-showing," was the most important kabuki event of the year during the Edo Period (1603-1867), as it was when theaters selected their actors for the coming year, then introduced them to audiences...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 21, 2001

Unconscious beauty crafted by Korea's unknown artists

The founder of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingeikan), Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), was a collector and philosopher who had been attracted to Korean crafts since his youth. Recognizing the beauty of folk craft, he strove for its recognition both in Japan and abroad.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 21, 2001

Visual aromatherapy for tired execs

After visiting the current exhibition of corporate art at Shibuya's Bunkamura, I have arrived at a daring new explanation of Japan's economic downturn. But more on this later.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2001

Minister favors tobacco 'health tax'

Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi said Tuesday he is in favor of introducing a "health tax" on tobacco, an idea being considered by the government and the three-party ruling coalition.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2001

Thai leader urges more investment, trade

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called on Japanese business leaders Tuesday to increase long-term investment and trade in Thailand.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 21, 2001

Dagmar Krause

Dagmar Krause has the thin, consumptive look of a cabaret singer, as if she is about to expire at any moment from want of a man, money or the simple pleasures of a hot meal.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2001

Victims of alleged financial fraud to ask for bailout

OSAKA -- Victims of an allegedly fraudulent financial scheme by a failed Osaka firm said Tuesday they will ask the government to buy securities that were purchased but later found to be worthless.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 21, 2001

Tori Amos: 'Strange Little Girls'

Tori Amos, whose most famous song, "Me and a Gun," is an a cappella description of her own real-life rape at gunpoint, wanted to do an album of rock songs originally written and performed by men, so she asked male acquaintances for the names of songs that made an impression on them. Cover albums are...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 21, 2001

The David Murray Quartet

David Murray has led a topsy-turvy career. Rather than starting out in acceptable, marketable music and evolving toward free jazz, he broke out in the 1970s playing the genre's wildest styles of avant-garde, then floated back toward a more palatable approach.
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 2001

'Make no haste' makes way

Facing its worst economic crisis in the postwar era, Taiwan has opted for deeper engagement with the mainland. The government of President Chen Shui-bian has lifted limits on investment in China in an attempt to boost the island's faltering economy. The move was applauded by Taiwanese businesses eager...
BUSINESS / ON MANAGEMENT
Nov 20, 2001

Getting in downtime

An executive returned from a weekend getaway in the Caribbean with a touch of sunburn, a sore shoulder from too much tennis, and a story. As he tells it, he'd been involved in an extremely tense negotiation for the better part of a year. "The principals knew they needed to do this deal, but they were...
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

Daikin, Trane to enter wide-ranging alliance

OSAKA -- Japan's No. 1 air conditioner maker, Daikin Industries Ltd., is in final talks with Trane Co., the No. 2 U.S. air conditioner manufacturer, on a wide-ranging alliance, a Daikin official said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2001

Koizumi now open to second extra budget

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and key Cabinet members agreed Monday to consider compiling a second supplementary budget in another attempt to rev up the nation's sputtering economy, government officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2001

Fiery meteors mesmerize stargazers

Thousands of amateur astronomers across Japan braved the cold early Monday to witness the Leonids meteor shower -- the biggest in decades.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

Health goods put Ajinomoto in black

Ajinomoto Co., Japan's major seasoning maker, said Monday its consolidated net balance in the first half of the 2001 business year turned to the black because of strong sales of nutritional foods and medicine.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

Three cooking oil producers to integrate

Nisshin Oil Mills Ltd., Japan's largest cooking oil producer, and two other companies in that field said Monday they will integrate operations on April 1 through an equity swap scheme to sharpen their competitiveness.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

EU-Japan symposium set for Tokyo

The EU-Japan Investment Symposium 2001 will be held Dec. 11 at the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) building in Tokyo, the Japan External Trade Organization said Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

Stock losses send IHI into the red

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. said Monday its group net balance sank into the red in the first half of the 2001 business year, mainly due to hefty appraisal losses on its stockholdings.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2001

NPA panel urges counseling, crackdown to halt 'bosozoku'

A National Police Agency panel on Monday proposed improving a counseling system for hot-rodders and penalties for those who illegally soup up cars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

Automakers now turning to 'telematics'

Automakers around the world are increasingly turning to information technology to improve the driving experience for commuters facing longer periods of time in their vehicles.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 20, 2001

Hawks win 4-way lottery for the right to negotiate with teenager Terahara

The Fukuoka Daiei Hawks of the Pacific League won a four-way lottery for the right to negotiate with high school ace Hayato Terahara during the Japanese Professional Baseball draft Monday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / TAKING STOCK
Nov 20, 2001

Stocks grope for new bottom

With the downtrend in share prices continuing unabated, the Nikkei average fell below 10,000 earlier this month for the first time in about a month.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2001

Construction integration queried by state panel head

The chairman of a study panel on highway construction on Monday questioned the effectiveness of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's proposal to integrate four state-backed construction entities.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2001

Criticism of Pakistan is off the mark

The Nov. 10 article by Brahma Chellaney, "Pakistan's uncertain future," gives a bleak picture of Pakistan that I am afraid does not exist in reality. Allow me to rectify this false image so that The Japan Times readers have a clear and balanced view of my country, which is so much in the news these days....
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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