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MULTIMEDIA
Oct 5, 2010

METI study group Mongolia-bound to dig up new rare earth resources

Japan, the world's biggest importer of rare earth metals, plans to send a study group to Mongolia this month as it tries to diversify its supply sources.
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Oct 5, 2010

Event raises ¥3.4 million for Pakistan flood victims

About 350 people gathered for a charity event last week in Tokyo to raise funds to support victims of Pakistan's devastating floods this summer.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2010

The resistance to Russia's political order

MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's decision to fire Moscow's long-entrenched mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, is the most decisive move of his presidency. Is it really part of his drive to modernize Russia, or part of an emerging power play with Moscow's real strong man, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin?...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2010

Grooming a new approach to North Korea

SEOUL — The long-delayed meeting of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party came at a time of severe tension between North Korea and the international community. As widely expected, Kim Jong Il's third son, Kim Jong Un, was appointed to a high position to justify his becoming his father's successor. A...
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2010

Asian carmakers report brisk U.S. September gains

Toyota Motor Corp. posted its largest U.S. sales increase in five months and Hyundai Motor Co. led gains for Asia-based brands as September auto demand grew at the fastest rate since the "cash for clunkers" program in 2009.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 3, 2010

A place in the woods for the world to gather

Construction of the Afan Nature Centre here in our woods outside Kurohime in the Nagano Prefecture hills is complete and the keys have been handed over to us. The beautiful building is the result of a decade of wishing, three years of planning, and a year of onsite building.
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.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 3, 2010

Media racism: How unsportsmanlike

Local favoritism is built into organized sports. At the macro level you have whole countries rooting for national teams at the Olympics or the World Cup. At the micro level you have fans cheering a hometown boy who plays for a team far away. By the same token, nationalistic fans denigrate opposing countries'...
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2010

Big Issue finds home; homeless in charge

The Big Issue Japan Ltd., a publisher that hires homeless people to sell its magazine on the streets, opened on Friday Japan's first shop managed by homeless people in a former convenience store in Nishi-Umeda subway station.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 2, 2010

Whiting to take stock of Nomo's lasting legacy in four-part series

Best-selling author Robert Whiting, who penned an exclusive four-part expose on Bobby Valentine's rise and fall with the Chiba Lotte Marines for The Japan Times this winter, returns with a four-part series on trailblazer Hideo Nomo's legacy on both sides of the Pacific Ocean 15 years after he left Japanese...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 2, 2010

Wenger needs to turn Wilshere loose against Chelsea

LONDON — Arsenal has the chance to prove it is ready to mount a serious Premier League title challenge when it takes on champion Chelsea on Sunday.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 1, 2010

Japan's toilet business flush with success

Asia loves the Washlet. In fact, some people can't leave home without it.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2010

Parties unite in demanding Senkaku video

The ruling and opposition parties agreed Thursday to ask the government to submit video footage documenting last month's collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japan Coast Guard cutters to the Diet.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2010

China frees three Fujita employees

Three of the four Japanese construction employees being detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of entering a restricted military zone were released Thursday in a sign that Sino-Japanese relations may be on the mend.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 1, 2010

For artist Tokumaru, music is but a dream

Shugo Tokumaru's music is a dream come true — literally.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 1, 2010

'El Topo'

A lot of times you'll see movies that a look a lot like all too many other movies you've seen before. Odd-couple buddy cops, one last heist, boy meets girl who hates him at first, the "chosen one" heroic quest, band of dysfunctional misfits who learn to pull together and triumph . . .
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 1, 2010

Exploring the stylistic diversity of nihonga

"The Avant-Garde of Nihonga 1938-1949" at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto takes issue with nihonga (Japanese-style painting) of the period as a reaction to what has been passed down to the present as the traditional aesthetics and thematics of the genre. These include the conventional materials...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 1, 2010

De De Mouse sets an electronic trap

"I am a musician, not a celebrity," says the shy fop when asked about the bumbled between-song banter in his otherwise triumphant set that finished just moments earlier at a music festival. Facing in toward his backing band, rather than outward to the crowd, the shy fop had buried his head in a bank...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 1, 2010

Zezankyo: A showcase for tempura artistry

It would be absolutely inaccurate to call Tetsuya Saotome a maverick. But within the traditional, buttoned-down world of tempura chefs, he certainly stands out as an individualist.
COMMENTARY
Sep 30, 2010

Ebb and flow of hedging in Southeast Asia

HONG KONG — Last week, when the China-Japan dispute over the detention of the captain of a Chinese fishing trawler was hanging fire, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said American efforts to improve relations with China must "go through Tokyo" because Japan was vital to the United States.

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