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JAPAN
Oct 5, 2001

Archaeologist exposed again

Disgraced archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura, who previously admitted to planting pieces of Paleolithic tools at two sites in northern Japan, has also admitted faking discoveries at at least 30 sites in the Tohoku region and Saitama Prefecture, archaeological association sources said Thursday.
SPORTS / TALK OF THE TIMES
Oct 5, 2001

Rhodes finds formula for success in Japan

American Tuffy Rhodes is the senior-most foreign pro baseball player in Japan, currently completing his sixth season with the newly crowned Pacific League champion Kintetsu Buffaloes. The 33-year-old Rhodes, who played for the Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox during his six-year major-league...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 4, 2001

Putting fear and hope on the genome map

Future historians might well classify this week as typical of the early 21st century, in that there is a flurry of reports linking specific genes to human diseases, and at the same time there is a voice warning against seeing genetics as a "magic bullet," the solution to all our problems.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 3, 2001

Tigers win it late to delay Swallows' celebrations

The Yakult Swallows had to wait at least another day to enjoy the pennant-clinching champagne shower as they lost to the Hanshin Tigers 2-1 on Tuesday at Koshien Stadium.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 3, 2001

Missing links steal the show

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it is also a dubious honor. For some 15 years, until his death in 1610, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's brooding and beautiful works scandalized Church and patrons alike, and left a generation of followers -- and copycats -- in his wake.
CULTURE / Music
Oct 3, 2001

The rebirth of cool

It's 30 minutes until showtime and the dark, cramped nightclub is already way past the fire chief's recommended maximum capacity. College students elbow their way through the wall of bodies toward the front, while gentlemen with salted beards and sports coats settle near the back with scotch and sodas....
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2001

Pre-APEC China visit now unlikely

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is unlikely to carry through with his plan to visit China prior to the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Shanghai, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 1, 2001

Hawks explode in 12-4 bashing of Buffaloes

Koji Akiyama belted a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Daiei Hawks exploded for eight more runs the next frame to trounce the Kintetsu Buffaloes 12-4 at the Fukuoka Dome on Sunday.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 30, 2001

Postwar Japan finds a voice

SILENCE TO LIGHT: Japan and the Shadows of War, Manoa 13:1, edited by Frank Stewart and Leza Lowitz. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001, 217 pp. Manoa, published by the University of Hawai'i, is a twice-yearly journal of Pacific Rim writing and graphic art, with each issue devoted to a particular...
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Sep 30, 2001

Kame no O dreamin'

Kame no O is a sake rice that has recently become popular with a number of brewers around the country. While it may not lead to the elegant, refined and lively fragrances and flavors derived from that most hallowed (yawn) of sake rices, Yamada Nishiki, Kame no O lends sake a definite character and solid,...
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 29, 2001

Yomiuri manager Nagashima retires at end of season

Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima will step down from the helm of Japan's most popular baseball team at the end of the season, chairman of the board Tsuneo Watanabe said at a press conference Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 29, 2001

Peter Wain

Three years ago in London, Peter Wain held an exhibition of "qianjiang" painting on Chinese porcelain. Under the title "Awaiting Spring," the exhibition was acclaimed as "the first to be held anywhere in the world that is devoted entirely to qianjiang porcelain painting." At the time, Wain explained...
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2001

Foreign Ministry proposes cutting aid to China

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday submitted a plan to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party calling for a reduction in official development assistance to China.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2001

Koizumi pushes crisis readiness

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a fresh vow Thursday to support the United States and actively take part in international efforts to combat terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 27, 2001

Can God damage your health?

On Sept. 15, the Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published a piece in The Guardian called "Religion's misguided missiles." With customary antireligious zeal, the Charles Simonyi professor for the Public Understanding of Science gave his explanation for the attacks on New York and Washington,...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 26, 2001

Sigur Ros

Since the worldwide release of their second album, "Aguis Byrjun," last year, Iceland's Sigur Ros has been dogged by more pretentious journalism than any pop group in history. Melody Maker took the cake when it described the group's music as "the sound of God weeping tears of gold in heaven."
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2001

Tokyo remembers terrorism victims

Amid tight security, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, foreign dignitaries, and the general public joined a prayer service Sunday for the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
JAPAN / MUSEUM MUSINGS
Sep 24, 2001

Baseball still the stuff of boys' dreams

The eyes of the boys from Okachimachi Junior High School in Tokyo light up as they grip the bats of professional Japanese baseball stars.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 23, 2001

Arcane lore as taught by the masters

BUDO SECRETS: Teaching of the Martial Arts Masters, by John Stevens. Boston/London: Shambhala, 2001, 116 pp., with illustrations, $19.95 The term "budo" is relatively recent one. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the martial arts were no longer to be used in combat, but rather to be considered...
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2001

Forum could smooth relations

Japan is informally considering the establishment of a high-level comprehensive forum for discussing economic issues with China as early as next year to promote policy cooperation in a wide range of areas, government sources said Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 19, 2001

History still on hold as Buffs righty sizzles

OSAKA -- Hisashi Iwakuma fired a two-hitter as the Kintetsu Buffaloes scored a key 5-0 victory over the Seibu Lions at the Osaka Dome on Tuesday night, boosting their lead in the Pacific League to 11/2 games, and keeping the dream of going worst to first in just one season alive.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 19, 2001

Stereolab: 'Sound Dust'

With a musical foundation in German progressive rock and political roots in the playful tradition of the Situationists, Stereolab is as avant-garde as they come.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 18, 2001

TUFF TALK

Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Tuffy Rhodes is in the process of chasing one of the most revered records in Japanese sports -- Sadaharu Oh's single-season home run mark of 55 set back in 1964.
Events
Sep 18, 2001

Slice of U.S. pie reveals dreams aren't in the sky

KYOTO -- In 1996, Akiko Hirano was finally ready to fulfill her dream of earning a diploma at a U.S. university. So the 47-year-old boarded a flight to Connecticut to chase a higher education.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 18, 2001

Buffs' Mizuguchi puts on a show for salarymen

OSAKA -- Eiji Mizuguchi stole the show from the big names at the Osaka Dome on Monday night, going 3-for-4, reaching base four times and driving in the decisive run for the Kintetsu Buffaloes in a 2-1 victory over the Seibu Lions.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 16, 2001

A theory in need of updating

THE ANATOMY OF SELF: The Individual Versus Society, by Takeo Doi. Translated by Mark A. Harbison. Forward by Edward Hall. Tokyo: Kodansha, Int., 2001 (1986), 168 pp., 1,800 yen. Takeo Doi, the man who made "amae" a household word, later wrote this book about "omote" and "ura" and their extensions,...
CULTURE / Music
Sep 16, 2001

Gone but no longer forgotten

A psychological opera composed in the shadow of World War I, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's long-neglected "Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City, or Shi no Miyako)" has this year been brought to the stage three times: once in a revival of the New York City Opera's 1975 production and twice in new stagings.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 15, 2001

Finding market niches to make really good books

Ivan Vartanian makes books. He is not a publisher, nor a commonplace packager. Rather he identifies a niche in the market, lines up the most suitable backing, and then physically puts the book together himself under the company name Goliga Books. All within the constrains of a tiny apartment in Tokyo's...
Explosion at U.S. air base in Okinawa injures four
The Kadena U.S. Air Force Base in Okinawa Prefecture. An emergency call was made at around 11:15 a.m. reporting that a small-scale explosion occurred at a storage depot for unexploded shells.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Hakuho vows to grow sumo globally after exiting domestic sports body
Former yokozuna Hakuho gives a news conference to announce his retirement from the Japan Sumo Association and reveal his future plans in Tokyo on Monday.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of a stabbing rampage on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
Top banker vows loyalty to DEI at Tokyo Pride Parade as Trump’s pushback rages
Akihiko Ogino, president and CEO of Daiwa Securities Group, says Japan should press ahead with diversity initiatives as he attends the Tokyo Pride parade in the capital's Shibuya area on Sunday.
‘Kokuho’ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il’s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakushō" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.

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