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JAPAN
Oct 20, 2005

Car show highlights environmental technology

CHIBA -- The 39th Tokyo Motor Show opened to the media Wednesday at the Makuhari Messe convention center here, with futuristic concept cars and vehicles sporting the latest technologies -- particularly those that make them more environmentally friendly.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2005

Studios launching old-style hunts for star actresses

Backed by a resurgent film industry, major studios are holding auditions to find their next leading ladies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 14, 2005

Benefit for New Orleans

New Orleans isn't just the birthplace of jazz; it's also home to a huge number of working musicians. Many of the jazz, funk, blues and R&B musicians who made their homes in the Big Easy or along the Gulf Coast lost everything they had when Hurricane Katrina hit.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Oct 14, 2005

Psychedelic radar 10.14

Saturday, Oct. 15
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 28, 2005

Shrines are no salve when it comes to extinctions

Natural selection these days can be more than a little unnatural, especially in Japan, which has a curious relationship with nature.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2005

JT to hold smokers-only movie preview of 'Sin City'

With smokers increasingly shunned in public places, Japan's largest cigarette maker is offering a rare treat -- tickets to a film preview where they can smoke all they want.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 11, 2005

What price social equality since the ventriloquists' putsch?

On the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity, is it too early to talk of a Bush legacy? What vision has the administration of President George W. Bush bestowed on the United States as a result of the terrorist attacks that day?
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2005

Indonesia crisis-aid vow is doubled

The central banks of Japan and Indonesia signed an agreement Wednesday for Tokyo to provide Jakarta with up to $6 billion in the event of a financial crisis, the Finance Ministry said.
Sep 1, 2005

Defense Agency wants 5 trillion yen

The Defense Agency on Wednesday requested 4.89 trillion yen in the fiscal 2006 budget to increase the capabilities of the Self-Defense Forces to counter threats to national security, including acts of terrorism, missile attacks and natural disasters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 19, 2005

Weekend trance party picks 08.19

Full Moon parties on Saturday, Aug. 20:
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Investor funds flourish, but caveat emptor

Ranging from hip-hop music to premium wines and a ramen court, funds are emerging in myriad fields to whet the appetites of investors tired of the minuscule interest on regular bank deposits and eager for a taste of adventure.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Short of guests, hotels pitch kid tours

City hotels are selling packages that give children a behind-the-scenes look at the industry.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 7, 2005

No turning back the clock when the walls come tumbling down

Because earthquakes are unpredictable, people who live with them are fatalistic: There's nothing you can do except hope you're in a place that doesn't fall down on top of you. This attitude only covers naked survival, which to most people means everything, but experts predict that in a worst case scenario...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 20, 2005

The Bard on the hanamichi

With his characters given samurai names and clad in kimono, whatever would the Bard make of this "Twelfth Night" by Japan's foremost Shakespeare dramatist, 69-year-old Yukio Ninagawa? This veteran theatrical explorer long vowed never to tackle kabuki, but is doing just that with "Twelfth Night" to packed...
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2005

Upper House poised to debate postal bills amid election threat

The House of Councilors voted Monday to form a special committee to deliberate the contentious package of government-sponsored postal privatization bills.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 10, 2005

Coming out of the linguistic closet

QUEER JAPAN FROM THE PACIFIC WAR TO THE INTERNET AGE, by Mark McLelland. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 248 pp., 15 b/w photos, $34.95 (paper). Japanese homosexuals face a peculiar problem. There is a true confusion among terms for sex, gender, sexual orientation, and gender expression. As one scholar...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jul 2, 2005

G.B. Umesh

Mysore, a former princely state in India and the seat of an ancient ruling family, was always known for its fabulous wealth.
JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Jun 27, 2005

Tickets to Live8 concert now available through lottery

A lottery is now open for tickets to the Japan performance of the Live8 series of rock concerts aimed at getting world leaders to help Africa.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Asylum seekers get a big kick out of 'One Ball, No Border' tourney

Cheers and laughter echoed Sunday morning around Waseda University's soccer field in Nishitokyo as an estimated 150 people seeking asylum, lawyers, Japanese volunteers and friends gathered for an annual futsal tournament to mark World Refugee Day.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 24, 2005

Yokomine misses spot in Women's British Open

Teenage golfer Sakura Yokomine missed out on a place in the Women's British Open, the fourth and last of this year's major tournaments in women's golf, Japanese golf officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

Lower House passes missile defense bill

The House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday to revise the Self-Defense Forces Law to enable the Defense Agency chief, in an emergency, to order a missile interception without waiting for approval from the prime minister and the Cabinet.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 12, 2005

Johnson gives his backing to Japan's bid

The Japan Rugby Football Union's bid to host Rugby World Cup 2011 received the backing and support of rugby legend Martin Johnson on Friday.
Japan Times
Features
Jun 12, 2005

Traders take lead in local initiatives

On a recent showery Tuesday afternoon, about 15 people assembled in a shopping district near Waseda University in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. When the rain eased up, they armed themselves with working gloves, waste pickers and plastic bags. Then, together, they set off on their mission to clean up the neighborhood's...
BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2005

Court rejects Nireco bid to revive its poison pill

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday turned down Nireco Corp.'s petition to revoke an injunction against the firm implementing what was to be Japan's first poison pill measure.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 5, 2005

Seiji Hirao: Mr. Rugby

At the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong in March, a group of eminent rugby journalists were talking about Japan's bid to host Rugby World Cup 2011.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Tropical Storm Peipah brings heavy rain to parts of western Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue warnings of landslides and other disasters due to heavy rainfall in several areas.
Trump signs order reducing tariffs on Japanese autos
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, shake hands.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
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