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JAPAN
Jul 30, 2000

Evolving Okubo strikes a balance

Okubo's image varies widely. To some people, it's a nasty urban jungle filled with sleaze. To others, it's a foreign world of fascination.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2000

Tokyo to compensate those poisoned by Suginami waste facility

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will compensate victims of hydrogen sulfide poisoning caused by the operation of a waste-processing facility in Suginami Ward, officials announced Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2000

Okinawans behind Japan-U.S. alliance

Following the tragic rape of a 12-year old Okinawa school girl by three U.S. servicemen in 1995, Secretary of Defense William Perry, perhaps the most respected member of President Bill Clinton's Cabinet, invited former Ambassadors Mike Mansfield and Richard L. Armitage to have lunch with him and the...
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Jul 15, 2000

Heading into a new century with Shakuhachi 1979 quintet

In 1979, five students of the shakuhachi master Hozan Yamamoto got together and created a performance group. All had extensive training in the classics, but, as students of one of the most innovative shakuhachi players of the 20th century, all wanted to expand the shakuhachi repertoire and create new...
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2000

Security role a two-edged sword but U.S. keeping lower profile

CHATAN, Okinawa Pref. -- It's an early Tuesday evening at Morgan's, a popular bar along Gate Two Road, and the mood is festive.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2000

Projectile fired at base found

Police said Tuesday morning they found one of two projectiles fired Monday night at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in what they believe was an attack by radicals opposed to the presence of the U.S. military in Japan.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Jul 1, 2000

Sinking to sulphurous musical depths

One of the few consolations amid the relentless damp and humidity of the Japanese rainy season are the irises and hydrangeas whose colors seem to become ever more limpid in the mist.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2000

Corruption undermines India

In recent weeks, the gentleman's game of cricket has been rocked to its foundations by charges and confessions of match-fixing. A commission of inquiry set up in South Africa has confirmed the fall from grace of former captain Hanse Cronje, once the epitome of professionalism and dedication to God, country...
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2000

Bad wheel load caused Hibiya line subway crash

An improperly balanced wheel-load was the probable key cause of the subway train derailment that killed five passengers and injured 60 others on Tokyo's Hibiya Line in March, a Transport Ministry expert panel said in its interim report released Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 26, 2000

Is there free speech in Japan? Greenpeace activists arrested

"For the sake of good environmental policy, it is necessary to have freedom of expression which forms public opinion." These are the words of Sweden's environment minister, part of a press release issued in March 1999, following the arrest of several Greenpeace activists who were in Tokyo protesting...
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2000

Blanket-toting 'Knock' denies intent to grope

OSAKA — Former Osaka Gov. "Knock" Yokoyama's molestation trial will be concluded Thursday with the defense's final statement, following prosecutors' demand last Tuesday for an 18-month prison term.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2000

Yokohama sin tax prompts cries of no fair

YOKOHAMA — After Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara announced his controversial plan to impose a local tax on the city's banks earlier this year, other local governments have been searching for new revenue sources to replenish coffers drained by recession.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Jun 17, 2000

A tribute to Japanese world music

In two previous columns (Feb. 5 and May 20) I wrote about recently established live-music houses, WAON in Nippori and Manabiya in Yokohama, where one can hear hogaku. The familiar settings of these spaces allow for an intimate connection with the music, which ranges from relatively unknown young musicians...
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2000

Violation of rights by cops nets redress

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 180,000 yen in compensation to a man denied the right to see his lawyer while in police detention in 1990.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 8, 2000

Jagr's Penguins to take on Predators in Japan

Hockey's been called the best-kept secret in pro sports.
ENVIRONMENT / FLOWER WALK
Jun 3, 2000

Just a-flowerwalkin' in the rain

No one would regret getting wet in the rain while admiring irises. Any complaints would melt away before the array of dainty flowers saluting you above crisp green leaves.
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
May 20, 2000

New made old, old new at Manabiya

I waited for the performance to begin, sitting amid the audience of 30 people or so, packed into the ground-floor room of a new building in the sprawling, nondescript suburbs of Yokohama.
JAPAN
May 19, 2000

Summit elates Osaka's Okinawans

OSAKA -- Osaka lost the bid for the 2000 Group of Eight summit to Okinawa, shocking and disappointing many local business and political leaders who had believed their city was the clear favorite.
JAPAN
May 11, 2000

'Ekiben' gets global spin for the rail connoisseur

The business of making and selling "ekiben," packaged lunches sold at train stations throughout Japan, is going somewhat global.
EDITORIALS
May 7, 2000

Gods and monsters

It wasn't so much a papal bull that was issued by the Vatican recently as a papal bear, and a teddy bear at that. In the week that "Pokemon: The First Movie" opened in Italy, an announcement on the Vatican's satellite television station reassured Italian children -- or their parents, since the children...

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