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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2006

Is Labour's Gordon Brown electable?

LONDON -- British Finance Minister Gordon Brown obviously wants to succeed Tony Blair as British prime minister. But it is less obvious that he is willing to do what is necessary to lead the Labour Party to victory in the next general election. In some critical sense, he must repudiate Blair's legacy,...
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CULTURE / Music
Oct 19, 2006

Cornelius pops back with touching sounds

Keigo Oyamada, better known as Cornelius, is one of Japan's most recognized musical exports. His innovative approach to electronic music on his 1997 breakthrough album "Fantasma," which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, and then on 2001's "Point" have won him fans in Europe, America, Australia...
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 19, 2006

"Takanobu Kobayashi Exhibition"

Nishimura Gallery Closes in 10 days
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ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 18, 2006

Slow down to savor the turning seasons

The autumnal season of change is upon us once more, with delights for eye, ear and nose. As the thermometer dips, rises and falls erratically, some days seem almost balmy as if it is late spring or early summer; others carry a stronger hint of the chill to come as winter approaches.
SPORTS / E-LIST
Oct 17, 2006

Dragons win CL with 'Girl Power' formula

YOKOHAMA -- When no challenge exists, for some, the answer is to manufacture one. Call it the Teenage Girl Syndrome -- when there isn't enough drama in a given situation, never underestimate a moody 16-year-old girl's ability to create some, and fast.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 17, 2006

Visiting a theme park sure beats working, unless . . .

Japan has lots of young people who are out of work or not even in the hunt for a job. The government estimates that 850,000 people, from teens through to their 30s, fall into the category of NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training). Then there are the "freeters," youths who only work odd jobs...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2006

The false hopes of tax cuts

NEW YORK -- There is a movement in medicine to require that applications for licenses to sell a new drug be "evidence-based." By contrast, trained economists view their discipline as having already achieved this scientific standard. After all, they express their ideas with mathematics and arrive at quantitative...
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 17, 2006

What d'you think about the no. of corporate scandals in Japan?

COMMENTARY
Oct 16, 2006

Abe off to impressive start

In his summits with Presidents Hu Jintao of China and Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea last week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took the first step toward improving relations that had soured between Japan and the two countries under the rule of his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi. His initiative also opened a...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2006

More deadly than Saddam

LONDON -- The final indignity, if you are an Iraqi who was shot for accidentally turning into the path of a U.S. military convoy (they thought you might be a terrorist), or blown apart by a car bomb or an airstrike, or tortured and murdered by kidnappers, or just for being a Sunni or a Shiite, is that...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 15, 2006

Abe might not have Koizumi's hair and flair, but he's got a girl

During the recently closed Koizumi Era, the media was mostly silent about the former prime minister's marital status and lack of female companionship.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2006

Backing off the merge lane

Talks between General Motors Corp., on one hand, and Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA, on the other, concerning a three-way alliance have collapsed, as the U.S. automaker couldn't find a good enough reason to form such an alliance. The unanimous decision by GM's board to reject the alliance appears to...
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Oct 15, 2006

Top trimmer styles two leaders in a row

Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has declared he will continue his predecessor's reform policies. That's hardly a surprise, as Abe was Chief Cabinet Secretary under former leader Junichiro Koizumi, and before that was secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party when Koizumi was its president....
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 14, 2006

McClaren, Venables must regroup after fiasco in Zagreb

LONDON -- To the surprise, it seems, of nobody except the England coaching team the switch from 4-4-2 to 3-5-2 in Croatia was a shambles.
BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2006

Nuke test casts cloud over markets: Fukui

The nuclear test North Korea claimed it conducted Monday will negatively effect Japan's economy, Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui said Friday.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 14, 2006

Tetsuya Noda

The College Women's Association of Japan is holding its 51st Annual Print Show Oct. 20 to 22 at the Tokyo American Club. As well as exhibiting 211 new prints, the show features demonstrations, activities and lectures, and an associate show focusing on two young prize-winning women.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 14, 2006

English language disaster in the making

"Hello!" said a smiling boy next to me on the train. "Well, hello," I said, startled that anyone should actually use this phrase unaccompanied by at least a giggle and at most rolling on the floor laughing.
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COMMUNITY
Oct 14, 2006

Taking the real estate industry to new levels

No need to feel sorry for E. Takashi Norris, working all alone at his desk in Azabudai. Because it's good news -- including having a very nice office all to himself. "All my staff are out on business," he explains. "Even the young woman I took on initially as my assistant is now operating her own right,...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 14, 2006

Exorcising the untrained brain

Once at a Japanese hospital -- after first camping in the outer waiting room for an eternity and then sitting in the inner waiting room for half an eternity more -- I heard the nurse hold the following conversation with the doctor, whose desk was parked around the corner, just beyond my sight.
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CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Oct 13, 2006

Psychedelic radar 10.13

Raja Ram's Stash Bag Tour 2006
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CULTURE / Music
Oct 13, 2006

G. Love and Special Sauce

Comprising guitarist Garret Dutton (Mr. G. Love himself), upright bassist Jimmie Prescott (Jimi Jazz) and drummer Jeffrey Clemens (Houseman), Philadelphia's G. Love & Special Sauce first began turning heads with the release of their nearly gold-certified, 1994 self-titled debut. Incorporating a mish-mash...
CULTURE / Music
Oct 13, 2006

Scritti Politti "White Bread Black Beer"

With his punk roots, 1980s pop hits and hip-hop beatmaking, you could never accuse Scritti Politti's Green Gartside of being musically limited. Yet with just five Scritti Politti albums over 25 years, this 51-year-old Welsh recluse is hardly pop's most prolific son either. On "White Bread Black Beer,"...
CULTURE / Music
Oct 13, 2006

Mayra Andrade "Navega"

Mayra Andrade's debut of acoustic world music sounds a bit like fellow singer from Cape Verde, west Africa, Cesaria Evoria. Mayra, though, has her own uniquely joyful and lovely voice. Recorded last year at just age 20, she sounds as if she's already had a 20-year career.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 13, 2006

Dedicated to dance

A hundred years old this month and still an active dancer, "Kazuo Ohno Photo Exhibition" captures on film one of the most famous Japanese performing artists in history. The exhibition, comprising 100 images of Ohno taken by 42 photographers, runs Oct. 14-23 at Konica Minolta Plaza in Shinjuku, Tokyo....

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