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CULTURE / Music
May 21, 2010

'King' Solomon mines fresh lease on life

After a few relatively lean years, the Japan Blues & Soul Carnival has landed a big fish again in the person of Solomon Burke, a soul legend of the 1960s who is currently enjoying an incredible late-career renaissance, while serving as an inspiration to everybody from Mick Jagger to Joss Stone.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 21, 2010

Your chance to star with two stage legends

Two titans of Japanese theater, contemporary dramatist Hideki Noda (who has also triumphed three times directing kabuki plays at its Kabukiza mecca) and star kabuki actor Kanzaburo Nakamura, will team up on stage at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in Ikebukuro from Sept. 5-28 to perform a new play by Noda...
MORE SPORTS
May 19, 2010

Woods plans to play British Open

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Tiger Woods has added the British Open to his summer schedule, he said on his Web site on Monday.
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
May 19, 2010

Sony makes the NEX move, Pioneer's iPod docks double as home theaters

Fashionably late: Sony has finally released its alternative to the already popular Olympus EP-2 and Lumix DMC-GF1 micro four-thirds, interchangeable lens cameras. Using the same technology that Olympus and Panasonic pioneered, the Alpha NEX-3 and NEX-5 are effectively compact DSLR cameras, light enough...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 19, 2010

Criticism of LeBron patently unfair

NEW YORK — Have you ever seen a city turn so fast on its Messiah?
COMMENTARY
May 18, 2010

Overhaul industrial policy to bolster the economy

Japan's industrial power is so stagnant that it seems a crisis is in store for our economy. Even as it lags far behind the United States in creating intelligent information systems, Japan is finding that South Korea, Taiwan and China are catching up with it in manufacturing.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
May 18, 2010

Still waiting for that last paycheck

Reader TS writes: "I return to the U.S. next week and I was supposed to receive my final pay check from a really bad ALT company . . . last week, but did not receive payment. I've called them but the secretaries say that the people in charge are not in the office. I called my direct contact and he has...
BASKETBALL
May 16, 2010

Five Arrows face uncertain future after bankruptcy

The Takamatsu Five Arrows may become the first bj-league team to go out of business.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
May 16, 2010

Globe-trotting Brit sets a new 'Guinness' record for itchy feet

If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing under ludicrously difficult, not strictly necessary, self-imposed rules. Such was the thinking of 31-year-old Graham Hughes when, stewing on the details of a long-dreamed of plot to visit every country on Earth, he decided to add a bit of hot sauce: He would...
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LIFE / Travel
May 16, 2010

Nara still boasts its ancient lure

In a geographical battle for the hearts and minds of Japanese people, Kyoto would win hands down as the wellspring of so much of their culture for which they feel such reverence.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
May 16, 2010

Reality check, 2010: 'Smoking doesn't cause cancer' (Japan Tobacco)

Every generation has its theme song.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
May 16, 2010

Halley's Comet, first international radio broadcast, tsunamis lash coastline, Japan tops creditor list

100 YEARS AGO
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BUSINESS / JAPAN-U.S. SYMPOSIUM
May 15, 2010

Japan, U.S. need closer cooperation

There is concern in Washington over the future of the Japan-U.S. alliance at a time when the two countries should be working close together on a broad range of international issues, including North Korea and Iran, U.S. foreign policy experts said at a recent symposium in Tokyo.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
May 15, 2010

Are we Kobo Daishi freaks?

"You're wearing a Kobo Daishi T-shirt," the Buddhist priest observed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
May 14, 2010

No Konbini No Life: instant maze-soba

Maze-soba is the latest ramen trend to make it to konbeni shelves. If you're desperate, it might hit the spot but there's nothing like the real thing.
JAPAN / CUSTODY OR ABDUCTION
May 14, 2010

Returning to Japan with kids was only safe option, two mothers say

It was a typical love story for Kyoko Yamaguchi. The couple met in Europe, fell in love, married and later had a son.
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BUSINESS
May 14, 2010

Shibuya 109 eyes rebound

It's no surprise that retailers are hurting amid the economic downturn and deflation. What is shocking, however, is that one of them is Shibuya 109, one of Tokyo's most popular fashion complexes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 14, 2010

On tour: Molice thunder through Vietnam

It was a typically hot and humid day as we walked down a busy street on our way to visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. Convoys of bicycles, scooters and motorcycles passed by, blasting us with dust, exhaust smoke and air horns. Some bore so many baskets of goods that they seemed like shops on wheels. One...
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 14, 2010

French lenses focus on Japan

Has life become easier for Tokyo-based expatriate photographers?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 14, 2010

'Enter the Void'

If "Lost in Translation" is the film you'd make when all you know about Japan are the pampered press junkets at Shinjuku 5-star hotels, then "Enter the Void" is what you would make if you never got beyond the Roppongi pub-crawl. Full of strip clubs, drug deals and loveless love-hotel sex, the latest...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
May 14, 2010

German Rieslings: a light, dry delight

It's a breathtaking sight: Between the rigid rows of bare vines, constellations of seeding dandelions glisten silver in the morning light. While the barely budding vines may seem dull in comparison, the golden Rieslings made from last year's grape harvest are glittering with promise in my glass. Spring...

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