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COMMUNITY
Feb 11, 2001

Still thrilled every spring by start of Wimbledon

There was America's No. 2 seed, Lindsey Davenport, on court in the final stages of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, thrashing Croatia's Iva Majoli, and looking a lot softer and prettier in the flesh than TV ever suggests.
COMMENTARY
Feb 11, 2001

In the land of the militantly mellow

NEW YORK -- San Franciscans, if we're to believe reporters who've spent the last week running up their New York employers' expense accounts, are searching the bottom of their recyclable souls in the aftermath of the death of Diane Whipple. Whipple, 33, was killed by one (or two, according to some sources)...
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Electric Town has its red lights, too

Shinichi, a 33-year-old photographer, has dated more than 500 women in the past three years.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Body found in cave identified as Blackman's

Police said Saturday the remains discovered Friday in a cave in Kanagawa Prefecture are those of Lucie Blackman, a 21-year-old British hostess who went missing last July.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Electric Town has its red lights, too

Shinichi, a 33-year-old photographer, has dated more than 500 women in the past three years.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Cartoon-inspired spinning tops enjoy boom

OSAKA -- A game of spinning tops called beyblade inspired by a television cartoon series launched earlier this year is enjoying huge popularity among Japanese children, according to the tops' maker.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Parties drag heels over picking candidates

CHIBA -- With just six weeks until the March 25 gubernatorial election here, the main political parties in this traditionally conservative prefecture have been uncharacteristically slow in selecting candidates.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Body found in cave identified as Blackman's

Police said Saturday the remains discovered Friday in a cave in Kanagawa Prefecture are those of Lucie Blackman, a 21-year-old British hostess who went missing last July.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 11, 2001

Christopher Hughes

Bath in southwestern England, his birthplace and home for his first 18 years, played its part in the makeup of Christopher Hughes. Several generations of his family have lived in that beautiful town of squares, crescents and terraces. Set in a bend of the River Avon and famed since Roman times, Bath...
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Cartoon-inspired spinning tops enjoy boom

OSAKA -- A game of spinning tops called beyblade inspired by a television cartoon series launched earlier this year is enjoying huge popularity among Japanese children, according to the tops' maker.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 11, 2001

You haven't seen Japan till you've been in a bus

The bus is one of the best places for observing Japan. It's different from the train, where people pack in and do "gaman" till they get to their destination.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Parties drag heels over picking candidates

CHIBA -- With just six weeks until the March 25 gubernatorial election here, the main political parties in this traditionally conservative prefecture have been uncharacteristically slow in selecting candidates.
CULTURE / Art
Feb 11, 2001

Israeli contemporary art: The endless game

With the election Wednesday of hardliner Ariel Sharon as prime minister, Israel is once again in the news. This can only help focus interest on the excellent exhibition featuring contemporary Israeli art at the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, and the complementary exhibition featuring older Israeli modern...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 11, 2001

More than 15 minutes of fame

In many ways, prints take the pulse of modern art. The flowering of techniques early in the 20th century gave artists a wild new freedom of expression, just as their personal opinions and emotions began to move center stage. Prints also reflected the growing democracy of art, the seismic shift that occurred...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 11, 2001

A passage to modern sculpture

There is a wraith of a bird stalking the basement of the Canadian Embassy, and if you are interested in contemporary sculpture it is worth tracking down. "Passages" shows 20 works by four Canadian artists, ranging from whimsical wildlife to meditations on a cube.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Nine Japanese missing off Oahu

Nine people, including four high school students, were reported missing Friday after a Japanese training ship sank following a collision with a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii, the Japan Coast Guard said Saturday.
COMMUNITY
Feb 11, 2001

Shinto priestess finds freedom while minding duties of past

On summer weekends, Kugenuma Beach turns into a parody of the nearby metropolis' encroachment on the holidaymaker, with girls in bikinis and 20-cm platform sandals struggling across the sand while loudspeakers on towers belch J-pop at 50-meter intervals, making it difficult to find a moment for quiet...
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Nine Japanese missing off Oahu

Nine people, including four high school students, were reported missing Friday after a Japanese training ship sank following a collision with a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii, the Japan Coast Guard said Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2001

Defense Agency staff, SDF to face stiffer penalties for spying

The Defense Agency plans to make penalties for personnel and Self-Defense Forces members who leak secret information harsher by raising the maximum prison term from one year to five years, agency sources said Saturday.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Feb 11, 2001

Yeltsin and Reagan revisited

This year there were two sad anniversaries in the first week of February: two former political superstars, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Russian President Boris Yeltsin celebrated their birthdays in the shadow of severe health problems. Confined to hospital, they were unable to appreciate the cheering...
COMMUNITY
Feb 11, 2001

The accidental ambassadors

Less than six months after bathing in the international attention that came with hosting the Olympic Games, Australians are celebrating their nation's 100th birthday.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 11, 2001

Takahashi to run in Ome race

Sydney Olympic champion Naoko Takahashi, who finished eighth in last Sunday's Marugame women's half-marathon in her first post-Olympic race appearance, will enter a 30-km race Feb. 18 at the Ome Marathon, organizers said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 10, 2001

The best politics money can buy

The deportation of fugitive French businessman Alfred Sirven from the Philippines throws a twist into the trial of Mr. Roland Dumas, the former French foreign minister and head of the Constitutional Court. Mr. Sirven is alleged to be the missing link in the scheme to use funds from Elf-Aquitaine, the...
CULTURE / Film
Feb 10, 2001

Suspense from fear of mundanity

Director M. Night Shyamalan couldn't make it to Tokyo since he and his wife have a newborn child to look after, but that didn't stop the enterprising PR people at Buena Vista from setting up a virtual press conference for "Unbreakable."
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2001

Reflections on a ticklish relationship

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- While I fully endorse the spirit and the letter of a recent article in The Japan Times by former British Ambassador Sir Hugh Cortazzi on civil servants and politicians, I am conscious that what follows may be dismissed as an instance of the well-known bureaucratic tendency to...
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2001

Tokyo plan will allow placement in university

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to allow the enrollment in universities and colleges of applicants without high school diplomas, counter to central government policy, in as early as two years, metro officials said Friday.

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