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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 13, 2010

Summer's 'hottest' ice treats

aisu kuriimu, popsicles and ice candies.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 12, 2010

Aussie election going from bizarre to farcical

SYDNEY — The most bizarre election in Australia's history staggers into farce as voters go to the ballot boxes in what promises to be a knife-edge decision between a divided government party and an angry opposition.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Aug 12, 2010

Hello to Helmut Lang's new tastemaker, jevous enprie!, Lady Gaga's cobbler and hobo style

Naoki Takizawa: A new knight to represent Helmut Lang
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 11, 2010

Toy cameras use digital to keep it analog

Hot on the heels of the toy camera trend comes the toy digital-camera, trying to keep in analog.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Aug 10, 2010

Makeup Japan-style: Dark to light

Makeup for many women is a vital component of their appearance and one they take great pains to apply, even to the point of dolling themselves up during the crowded morning commute, working through the routine starting with a foundation, then eyebrows, mascara and finally lip gloss.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 8, 2010

A painter who embraced life; soldiers back from the dead; CM of the week: Iris Ohyama

In February of 2009, painter Kenji Yoshida died at the age of 84 in Paris. Yoshida was better known in Europe than he was in his native country of Japan, a situation the NHK special "Inochi: Koko no Gaka" ("Life: A Solitary Painter"; NHK-G, Mon., 10 p.m.) may help to correct.
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 8, 2010

Crumbling relics tell of life and death — and of rebirth, too

There's an area in Miyagi Prefecture called Kejonuma that's home to an arresting legend.
EDITORIALS
Aug 7, 2010

Faded bonds with the oldest

There are more than 40,000 people aged 100 or over in Japan and this number is expected to increase. In 2009, Japanese women had the world's longest life expectancy of 86.44 years and men the world's fifth longest life expectancy of 79.59 years. Japan is certainly a country of long life expectancy. But...
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Aug 6, 2010

Murry, Takeno give Fukuoka firepower

Since joining the Rizing Fukuoka during their first season, Michael Parker has been one of the league's premier players.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2010

Kids' A-bomb drawings come back to Japan

HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) Around 50 drawings by elementary school children who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb that were sent to an American church six decades ago have temporary returned to Japan and are being exhibited at Honkawa Elementary School until next Monday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 6, 2010

Hippies and hipsters brave a soggy Fuji Rock

When you're talking about a music festival whose inaugural event was literally wiped out by a typhoon, it can feel a bit petty to complain about the weather. All the same, campers arriving at Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba on Thursday last week might have hoped for a warmer welcome than the torrential downpour...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2010

'Kinako — Minarai Keisatsuken no Monogatari (Kinako — The Story of an Apprentice Police Dog)'

Animal movies are a thriving genre of Japanese films that foreign critics, scholars and viewers by and large cordially detest. It's similar to the typical gaijin reaction to natto (fermented soy beans) — i.e., disgust at a humble, but beloved, made-in-Japan specialty.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2010

Toyota logs quarterly profit, raises forecast

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it logged a ¥211.66 billion group operating profit for the April-June period, reversing a ¥194.86 billion loss in the same quarter last year, due mainly to brisk sales in emerging Asian markets, including Thailand and Indonesia.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2010

Ban, Okada confirm effort to eradicate nukes

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon confirmed Tuesday with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada that Japan and the world body will aim for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 4, 2010

Softbank's Inomoto bids for spot on first team

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2010

Mitsui loath to ante $480 million

Mitsui & Co. has refrained from paying $480 million in bills from BP for costs related to the damaged Gulf of Mexico oil well, in which the trading house holds an indirect stake.
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.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
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.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.

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