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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 1, 2012

Lantern spectacle and costume parade commemorate lord's arrival

The three days that comprise the Hyakumangoku Festival are sometimes said to be the most highly anticipated days of the year by Kanazawa residents, but they could be some of the best days for all of Ishikawa Prefecture.
CULTURE / Music
May 31, 2012

AKB48 'election' shows marketing brilliance

The biggest event of the year for AKB48, the 48-member pop group that's the most popular music act in Japan today, arrives next Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 29, 2012

'Various reasons' halted sex slave exhibit: Nikon

Nikon Corp. canceled its planned photo exhibition of wartime sex slaves for "various reasons," the major camera maker has announced.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / WEEK 3
May 20, 2012

Artist creates Yokohama bodhisattvas

Eleven bodhisattvas stand in formation, their heads crowned and their almond-shaped eyes and faces dusted with gold.
EDITORIALS
May 20, 2012

Quake-resistance inspections lag

Only 10 percent of buildings along important roads in Tokyo have been checked for earthquake resistance, according to officials at the metropolitan government's Bureau of Urban Development. If buildings are not upgraded to higher safety standards, many vital roads and highways in the Tokyo region could...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 17, 2012

Otomo's genga will make you remember

Without "Akira" there would be no "Cool Japan."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 17, 2012

DoCoMo expands offerings for handsets

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Wednesday it will expand smartphone services, including offering unlimited access to "anime" and music as well as a text translation service.
EDITORIALS
May 6, 2012

'Flyjin' rather few

According to a recent Tokyo Metropolitan Government survey, 25 percent of foreigners living in Tokyo left Japan temporarily after the March 11, 2011 disasters. That survey seems to imply that many foreign residents did indeed become "flyjin," a pejorative term coined from "fly" and "gaijin" or foreigner....
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 4, 2012

Eclipse over easy, a star-studded anniversary, and bubbly pairings

Annular solar eclipse from the Park Hyatt Tokyo On May 21, for the first time in 25 years, an annular solar eclipse will be visible from large parts of Japan; for Tokyo, it is the first time in 173 years. The Park Hyatt Tokyo in Shinjuku will offer a special breakfast to observe the cosmic phenomenon...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 4, 2012

'The Ballad of Mott the Hoople'

The embalming of rock history continues apace, and some days it seems as if every band that had a following in the 1960s or '70s is getting a rockumentary of its own. There's a reason for that, and it's not just boomer nostalgia: Bands back then were mapping out new territory, whereas contemporary rock...
COMMENTARY
May 2, 2012

Anachronistic historian adds value

Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president's casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesinger, John F. Kennedy's kept historian, convened a lunch at Washington's Occidental restaurant with some other administration...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 27, 2012

Fans experience the Web in real time at party

From Justin Bieber to Lana Del Rey, it seems the way to stardom now is via online video-sharing sites such as YouTube.
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2012

It's what Oi reactor tests don't cover that worries

After having undergone major safety checks that were mandated because of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis that started last year, the government is moving to restart reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi facility in Fukui Prefecture.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Apr 25, 2012

Japan's return to Fed Cup World Group brings new challenge

Japan's 4-1 victory over Belgium in their Fed Cup World Group playoff last weekend will put the host nation back into the event's top tier next year for the first time since 2007.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 20, 2012

World Gardening Fair at Hotel Okura

This year, the Hotel Okura Tokyo marks its 50th anniversary, and as part of the celebrations, the hotel will host the 12th Annual World Gardening Fair from May 1-6 at the Heian Room on the first floor of its main building.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / WEEK 3
Apr 15, 2012

Legendary Chigusa jazz cafe reborn

A lot of people were left feeling blue after Chigusa, Japan's oldest jazz cafe, closed in 2007 when the Noge district of Yokohama where it had been serving Satchmo with its coffees since 1933 fell victim to developers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Apr 8, 2012

Keene shares his love for Tohoku

Donald Keene, one of the world's most renowned scholars of Japanese literature, said during an event held in Tokyo on March 20 that he believes that Japan's northeast will recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake and be reborn as a beautiful region.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 3, 2012

TED offers everyone the chance to speak or perform

TED — the increasingly popular New York based, California-held ideas event— is coming to Tokyo. The conference, whose speakers were previously by invitation only, will hold an audition in Tokyo on May 29 as part of a worldwide talent search. Organized by the TEDxTokyo team and hosted at Roppongi...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 23, 2012

Yearly anime fairs a must for die-hard fans

Tokyo's otaku (geek) hub of Akihabara might be empty for the next two weekends as two major anime events hit the capital.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past