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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 21, 2003

To feel better, get in touch with Mojo Massage

Benjamin Beardsley was in high school when he was jumped on by a group of his classmates and beaten up. They accused him of thinking he was different, somehow better than them. "You'll never leave this town," they mocked. Well, here I am talking with Ben in Tokyo about theater, massage and holistic integration,...
SUMO
Jun 8, 2003

Kotomitsuki likely to miss basho

Rank-and-filer Kotomitsuki is likely to miss the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament next month due to an injured right elbow, stable master Sadogatake said on Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 8, 2003

Butoh: Dance in a surreal realm

We are between sanity and insanity, beauty and ugliness. Good and evil don't matter; emotion lurches from serenity to rage without warning. East and West, too, have merged: Leering Japanese ghosts waltz to Edith Piaf; a forest hag dressed for a Versailles ball strikes wild kabuki poses. Fear turns frolicksome...
SUMO
Jun 3, 2003

Musashimaru back in training

Yokozuna Musashimaru resumed practice Monday in a bid to make his comeback at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July after missing the last four basho with a nagging wrist injury.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Jun 1, 2003

You gotta walk the walk, talk the talk

DJ Seen does have tales to tell. After I get all five members of Pico System to play a game in which they have to decide what kind of animal each of the others is most like (this does, believe me, occasionally yield some illuminating responses), Seen is voted a cheetah. Maybe it's got something to do...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 25, 2003

Soaked in the city

Though you may not have seen Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning animated film "Spirited Away," which is set in an opulent bathhouse for the gods, even the most fleeting acquaintance with Japan will have made it clear that soaking in a hot tub is an almost celestial experience for the inhabitants of these...
SUMO
May 23, 2003

Asashoryu remains sole leader

Asashoryu looked every ounce the grand champion as he blasted out ozeki Tochiazuma to remain the sole leader at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday.
SUMO
May 22, 2003

JSA warns yokozuna over bad behavior

Yokozuna Asashoryu has been given a stiff warning about his recent disreputable behavior in the sacred ring, Japan Sumo Association officials said Wednesday.
SUMO
May 20, 2003

Asashoryu upset by compatriot

Yokozuna Asashoryu slipped on a banana skin Monday as the fiery Mongolian got dragged down by countryman Kyokushuzan for his first defeat of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 18, 2003

Heavens above: a job from hell

Most reporters would have jumped at the assignment, with gusto.
COMMUNITY
May 13, 2003

Write your own Japanese potboiler

1. Someone falls victim to a horrible murder in a U.S city. The solution lies in a cryptic message written on: a samurai sword; a Satsuma vase; a netsuke; an ancient scroll; a jade amulet; or an Astro-Boy comic book.
MORE SPORTS
May 8, 2003

NFL plans Tokyo visit

The Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers will take on the New York Jets on Aug. 2 at Tokyo Dome in the NFL Tokyo 2003, the game's organizers announced Wednesday.
SUMO
May 7, 2003

Maru pulls out of summer basho

Stablemaster Musashigawa confirmed Tuesday that Samoan-born grand champion Musashimaru will miss the upcoming Summer Grand Sumo Tournament after failing to fully recover from a nagging wrist injury.
SUMO
Apr 25, 2003

Wrist injury set to rule Maru out

Grand champion Musashimaru is expected to miss the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament due to a left wrist injury, his stablemaster said Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 20, 2003

All roads still lead to Paris

Mother, grandmother, createuse extraordinaire, Hanae Mori is a woman of impeccable taste, the holder of many coveted awards and Japan's -- and Asia's -- only member of the prestigious, Paris-based Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Mar 26, 2003

Life: the home movie, Japan: the video game

Two very different female video artists have brought pleasantly complementary exhibitions of their recent work to the Tokyo Opera City Gallery. Elija-Liisa Ahtila, 43, from Finland, and Japanese artist Tabaimo, 27, both opened with impressive solo efforts at the spacious Shinjuku gallery Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 23, 2003

Art on the fast track

OK, so manga are hugely popular -- but so are 500 yen umbrellas on a rainy day. Like those cheap plastic parapluies, though, manga seem little more than a temporary feature of daily commuting. Those young furiita and salarymen who thumb through the pages with barely a pause can't be getting much from...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 20, 2003

That's pride messing with you

I once attended a Mike Tyson fight. If you think his fights are vicious on television, you shouldn't see them in person. Tyson hit the other guy so hard that we could feel it in the bleachers.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 16, 2003

Forget about soccer -- baseball No. 1

The 2002 World Cup had limited effect on boosting the popularity of soccer in baseball-mad Japan, according to a survey by Japan's largest newspaper.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 16, 2003

Yoji Yamada

A director since 1961, with 77 films to his credit, Yoji Yamada, 71, is a Japanese film industry icon. His "Tora-san" series, about a wandering peddler who is forever falling in love, but never gets the girl, generated 48 hit installments -- and made Yamada the most successful Japanese director of his...
SUMO
Mar 4, 2003

Musashimaru to skip spring basho

Yokozuna Musashimaru will pull out of the upcoming Spring Grand Sumo Tournament after failing to recover from wrist surgery, his stablemaster said Monday.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 2, 2003

Tours into mystery

Recently, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced a government plan to attract 10 million overseas tourists a year by 2010, which would be twice as many as presently visit Japan.

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