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JAPAN / Media
Nov 28, 2010

Nicholas Bornoff, Japan Times writer and author of 'Pink Samurai,' dies aged 61

Nicolas Bornoff, who died of cancer in London on Oct. 30, was my predecessor as a film critic at The Japan Times, starting in the late 1970s and continuing for nine years. His style, in contrast to fellow reviewer Andy Adams' slangy journalese, aimed for the elevated and authoritative, which made me,...
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Nov 21, 2010

Death before dishonor, more rights for Ainu, J.F.K. elected, Swatches hit Japan

100 YEARS AGO
LIFE / Travel
Nov 21, 2010

Sapporo's warm welcome

With its wide roads laid out in a neat grid, an abundance of greenery and its sleek, modern subway system, Sapporo at first feels more like somewhere in America than in Japan.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 12, 2010

Parity keeps things interesting early in the season

A few trends have emerged in the season's opening month.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Oct 24, 2010

Nibutani, Hokkaido: Travel, hospitality and the Ainu identity

Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands and much of Sakhalin. However, their culture in Hokkaido, dating back to the 13th century, was decimated after Japanese settlers began flocking to the huge northern island in the 1800s.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Oct 17, 2010

Korean peerage, national census, assasinaton of party leader and sanctions for South Africa

100 YEARS AGOWednesday, Oct. 12, 1910
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Oct 3, 2010

Fukuoka: Designed for living

Inquiring as to the whereabouts of English-language bookstores in Fukuoka, the person at the Rainbow Plaza information center's desk straightaway handed me a printout of English listings, maps and directions. This, I began to realize, is a well organized city.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Oct 1, 2010

Twenty ways for the bj-league to boost exposure

How can an upstart league become relevant to the masses?
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 19, 2010

Chinese media on Korean annexation, Shinto will survive after man achieves immortality, 9 percent growth, schools must sing Kimigayo

100 YEARS AGOSunday, Sept. 4, 1910
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 17, 2010

New exhibition anticipates a design museum for Japan

In March, with the opening of the Design Museum Holon, Israel added its name to a long list of countries that have at least one full-fledged museum dedicated to design. Japan, despite its reputation as a design powerhouse — hard-earned during the 20th century by innovative work such as Sony's Walkman,...
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Aug 15, 2010

Japan annexes Korea, apology accepted after 600 years, Osamu Tezuka's first full-length animation

100 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 23, 2010

In celebration of the yin of butoh

"In 1949, Tatsumi Hijikata saw Kazuo Ohno perform for the first time. He was moved and described Ohno-sensei's dance as geki yaku — like a powerful drug or deadly poison. Ohno-sensei was a dancer of powerful poison!" exclaims Takeshi Morishita of Keio University's Tatsumi Hijikata Archive.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jul 18, 2010

Pirates off Haneda, the advent of Japanese autos, striking miners' dispute, first American pro go player

100 YEARS AGO
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 20, 2010

Formosan aborigines, Ikebukuro: 'Tokyo's cleanest district,' students storm Diet, journalists watch as company chairman murdered

100 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2010

Contemporary works created in loving memory of the 'now'

"Memory does not belong to the past; it is the continuous present and future." Artist Kimio Tsuchiya's words speak volumes about "Plastic Memories — to illuminate 'now,' " currently showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Her work "Fragments of the Moon" (2004) features old bits of chipped...
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
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Apr 18, 2010

Missionaries in Korea, JNR modernizes, cigarettes as Imperial gifts

100 YEARS AGO
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Mar 21, 2010

The jury system, Japan quits League, Hachiko dies, Sahara radioactive fallout in Japan, Tsukuba Expo opens

100 YEARS AGO
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Feb 21, 2010

Gambler fraternity bust, banana-only diet, 3-S formula tabloids, service industry growth

100 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2010

Visions of art in an alternative key

In its own quiet way, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions was one of the standout art events of 2009.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 12, 2010

Cyber Arts Japan: As interactive as they want to be

"What are silk screen prints doing in a show of media art?"
COMMENTARY
Jan 24, 2010

Media gang up on Iran for Latam outreach

SEATTLE — Should the United States be concerned about Iran's determined efforts to reach out to Latin America or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, about the ayatollahs' strategy of cozying up to Latin America?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jan 19, 2010

'Hybrids' thrive in Japan, Aussie says

Robert Gumley, general manager of Elanex Japan KK, a translation service, has learned that Japan is an easy country for foreigners to live in — if they choose to be bicultural.
COMMENTARY
Jan 17, 2010

Will the Tiger find a way out of the Woods?

LOS ANGELES — Buddhism is one of the historic religions of Asia, and today its influence remains strongly felt throughout the world. One has only to scratch the surface of this religion that originated in India in the fifth or sixth century B.C. to know that it has much to say about suffering.
CULTURE / Books
Jan 17, 2010

Mystery made of a rationalist's nightmares

A blood-soaked woman, clutching a child, stands on a barren moor. This is the image of the ubume of the title. This creature, or figment, who may or may not exist, but who haunts the narrative of this novel, is defined as the visible form of the regrets experienced by a woman who has died during childbirth....
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jan 17, 2010

Guilty by ballot, Japan-U.S. security treaty signed, gang war feared

75 YEARS AGO
CULTURE / Books
Jan 10, 2010

How do writers come up with this stuff?

Reading Mieko Kanai's stories is an unsettling experience, like swimming underwater, existing in a new and shimmering medium, and coming up for air between stories just to make sure everything is still real — or as real as you remember it. Concurrently, it feels as if one were skating on a slippery...
Japan Times
LIFE
Dec 27, 2009

Koza remembered

It's October 2009, and I'm sitting in the parking lot of a convenience store in Koza city, taking photographs of the sidewalk. I've been here for close to an hour — surrounded by a dozen old photographs, four maps and reams of photocopies all weighed down with chunks of brick to stop them blowing away...

Longform

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell