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COMMENTARY
Dec 11, 2002

Pakistan's nuclear promises

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's new prime minister, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, has begun his tenure with renewed promises that the country's nuclear weapons will remain in safe hands.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Dec 11, 2002

Solomon Burke: "Don't Give Up On Me"

Solomon Burke's new album, "Don't Give Up On Me," is being touted as not only the return of one of soul music's pioneers, but the return of soul singing itself. And while the sixtysomething Burke is in great voice, the record is somewhat frustrating. Producer Joe Henry hired a dozen big-name artists...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 11, 2002

All I want for Christmas is the third of the tonic chord

As 2002 draws to a close, public halls are bracing themselves for the regular flood of yearend classical music concerts featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 "Choral."
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 10, 2002

Chilling in the houses of the rising damp

Waking up on winter mornings always reminds me of how primitive life in Japan can be.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2002

Pre-emption is as old as war

HONOLULU -- Suppose, for the sake of argument, the Japanese flotilla bearing down on Hawaii from the north Pacific 61 years ago this weekend had been discovered before its carriers launched their dive bombers and torpedo planes to attack the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor. What should the Americans have...
COMMUNITY
Dec 8, 2002

Mothers under pressure

Recently much media attention has been paid to the rise in depression and suicide among middle-aged men threatened by layoffs. The Yomiuri Weekly, however, reports that stress-related illness is actually more prevalent among housewives (Nov. 24).
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 8, 2002

Soaring lineup to peak your curiosity as well as appetite

On Monday at 8 p.m., TV Asahi presents the fourth special in its ongoing documentary series about the history of human endeavor with "The Legend of Human Flight."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 8, 2002

There's cows in them there hills

Even today, most of the "milk" in Japan is soymilk, eaten as tofu. The lactic sort, from cows, may be steadily growing in popularity, but consumption per person is still only around a liter a week, according to government data issued last year.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Dec 8, 2002

Where West met East

A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO YOKOHAMA: Sketches of the Twice-Risen Phoenix, by Burritt Sabin. Yokohama: Yurindo, 2002, 304 pp., 176 pp. of plates, illustrations and maps, 2,500 yen (cloth) Isabella Bird, that sharp-eyed, tart-tongued early traveler to Japan, opined that Yokohama had irregularity without picturesqueness,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 8, 2002

Capital transports of restricted delight

It's got the party places. It's got the party people. Now if only someone could come up with a way to get the people to the places, Tokyo could truly call itself a 24-hour city.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 7, 2002

Yawara-chan, Tani to tie the knot

Judoka Ryoko Tamura is set to announce her engagement to baseball player Yoshitomo Tani of the Orix BlueWave, sources close to the Olympic and world champion said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 7, 2002

Journeying back to tribal roots with eagle feather

Two years ago, after more than a decade in Japan, Shirley (Blackstar) Macdonald and her husband, Chris, decided it was time to go home. Now they run Eagle Feather Gallery in Victoria, British Columbia, with a magnificent cedar house in deep forest north of the city. A long way from working in Tokyo,...
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2002

Aceh on the brink of peace

At long last, there is an end in sight to the two decades of deadly conflict in Indonesia's separatist province of Aceh. The Indonesian government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the Free Aceh Movement, the guerrilla group established in 1976, are expected to sign a peace agreement in Geneva next...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 5, 2002

Pierce, Walker can forget about Athens

NEW YORK -- Like teammate Paul Pierce (and Baron Davis), Antoine Walker has no chance of being asked to play on the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. Taunting Larry Brown last season, among other coaches, has come back to haunt him.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 5, 2002

Ono replaces Kimura at Sanfrecce

Takeshi Ono on Wednesday was named the new manager of Sanfrecce Hiroshima following the departure of Takahiro Kimura, who resigned earlier in the day after his side was relegated to the second division on the final day of the J. League season.
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Dec 5, 2002

Carping over muddy ponds

Me and Mr. Matsuki, we're developers. There -- I've said it. We actually alter habitat. We haven't got around to making golf courses yet, but about 10 years ago, when I bought another section of land to add to what is now the Nagano prefectural Afan Woodland Trust, there was a large section of it that...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 5, 2002

GM crops get good press? Surely not

Everyone from religious scholars to British lords seems to have an opinion on genetically modified foods -- whether it is that they are "Frankensteinian" or that they are creations revealing the promise of biotechnology in the service of humanity.
COMMENTARY
Dec 5, 2002

French moderates end feuds

PARIS -- Six months after last spring's presidential and general elections, the French political landscape is undergoing a deep transformation:
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 5, 2002

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... dull

"Superman: Shadow of Apokolips," a new game from Atari for PlayStation2, is an utterly forgettable 3-D adventure game in which Metropolis' man of steel vanquishes familiar foes.
LIFE / Digital
Dec 5, 2002

Digital cameras get pocket-sized right

Those who bought their first digital camera several years ago spent upwards of 100,000 yen on bulky hunks that shot mediocre photos at best.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Dec 4, 2002

Christine 23 Onna: "Acid Eater"

Before you listen to "Acid Eater," you might want to gather a few fetish items; this experience is worth externalizing. Start with a surfboard, a spacesuit and a videocassette of Barbarella.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Dec 4, 2002

The secret language of janitors

Although it is my pleasure to cover contemporary art by living artists in this column, I hope readers will give me leave to discuss a dead one this week, because the Henry Darger exhibition at the Watari-Um Museum of Art is just too fantastic an event to ignore.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Dec 4, 2002

"Red Hot" AIDS charity compilations: "Red Hot + Riot"

Tribute albums tend to disappoint because multiartist formats are by nature inconsistent. "Red Hot + Riot," the latest in the decade-old series of "Red Hot" AIDS charity compilations, is a glorious exception. If it's more exciting than any tribute album of recent memory, then it must have something to...
SOCCER / J. League / ON THE BALL
Dec 3, 2002

J. League experiencing minor changes

The 2002 J. League season was completed on Nov. 30 after Jubilo Iwata won the league title for the third time by sweeping the two stages, and Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Consadole Sapporo both got relegated to Division Two.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 3, 2002

Can tourists get themselves working visas?

There is a Japanese saying that goes "when you stand in front of the lighthouse you often miss the light."
COMMUNITY
Dec 3, 2002

Lighting up the lives of the world's refugee kids

Refugees International Japan will hold the opening ceremony for its annual "Light up the Life of a Refugee Child" campaign on Thursday, Dec. 5, from 12:00-12:45 p.m. The campaign will continue daily from 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. until Wednesday, Dec. 11th (excluding Sunday).
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 3, 2002

Japan masters the art of noise

There is no cure, no medicine, no surgery that can reverse the damage done. You probably won't die of it, but the unknowing victims number in their millions and are usually only diagnosed after it is much too late. This totally preventable scourge is noise pollution and Japan is arguably one the world's...
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

Podcast

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

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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