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JAPAN / MUSEUM MUSINGS
Sep 24, 2001

Baseball still the stuff of boys' dreams

The eyes of the boys from Okachimachi Junior High School in Tokyo light up as they grip the bats of professional Japanese baseball stars.
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Sep 23, 2001

Wine loving in the city, from dusk till dawn

This week brings good news for wine lovers whose schedules tend toward the late end of the Tokyo grind. Nissin World Delicatessen has extended its hours to 8:30 p.m., and a new Shirogane wine bar is pouring until the wee hours.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 23, 2001

Dream weavers of a bygone era

When made up for work, Norie is perhaps as close to the classic image of Japan as you could wish. Clad in a colorful yet demure kimono, wooden sandals and a jet-black wig that provides a striking contrast to the white makeup lavished on her fine features, she looks like a doll.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 23, 2001

Arossa: Best cellars Down Under

When a recent cover feature in a heavyweight U.S. weekly magazine assures us that New World vintages -- especially those from Down Under -- are giving the French (and Californians) a run for their money, then it's safe to say that Australian wine has arrived. But we in Tokyo have known that for a long...
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2001

SDF team may head for Pakistan

The government may dispatch elements of the Self-Defense Forces to Pakistan as well as to the Indian Ocean to provide logistic support to the U.S. military should it follow through with threats of force in the region.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2001

Economic panel compiles timetable for reform priorities

A key government economic panel compiled Friday a list of reform priorities centered on a strategy to accelerate the cleanup of banks' problem loans and assist corporate restructuring.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2001

Koizumi-led panel reveals steps to cope with unemployment

A state task force led by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday unveiled a comprehensive package of measures to deal with unemployment.
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 21, 2001

Japanese macaque

JAPAN
Sep 19, 2001

Miyazaki animation museum to open Oct. 1 in Mitaka

An animation museum designed by Hayao Miyazaki, a popular director of animated films, was opened to the media Monday ahead of its official opening on Oct. 1.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2001

Government aims to cut its elderly medical bill

The government may raise the age at which people can receive elderly medical care to 75 from 70 within five years, according to health ministry sources.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 16, 2001

Pick a fate, any fate: it's all in the tarot

It is often said that all human life is contained within the tarot -- from shady business prospects and secret admirers to unexpected adventures and marriage plans. But can a tarot spread really contain so much meaning, or is it pure chance?
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 16, 2001

Some hairy ordeals

Fans of the long-running historical drama series "Mito Komon" (Mondays at 8 p.m. on TBS) may have been slightly put off last spring when Koji Ishizaka, the actor who had just assumed the title role, opted to play it without the character's famous wispy white beard. Mito Komon just wasn't Mito Komon without...
COMMUNITY
Sep 16, 2001

Divination business thriving, for the foreseeable future

Head bowed, eyes closed, silently intoning my birth date and a prayer-like plea for good fortune; I feel a little silly, but I'm doing as I've been told.
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2001

Draft solid reform plan, Koizumi tells Cabinet

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi instructed his Cabinet on Friday to devise concrete reform measures on priority areas such as education, urban renewal, job creation within the public sector and deregulation of health care.
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 14, 2001

Golden orb spider

CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 12, 2001

Rachid Taha

Algeria's indigenous pop music, rai, which gained international attention in the 1980s, was, like many popular music forms, the result of city slickers adapting music from the sticks for their own purposes and enjoyment. Originally ribald, rai became pointedly political after young people in the '60s...
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 12, 2001

You ain't nuthin' but a henjin

What a wacky guy Junichiro Koizumi is. When he's not battling bureaucracy or trying to revive the ailing economy, Japan's unprecedentedly popular prime minister likes nothing better than to chill out and listen to the music of the King: Elvis Presley.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Vanity thy name is also man

If my mates could see me now, they'd just about die laughing.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 9, 2001

For your regular viewing pleasure

Those who believe young people don't have proper peer models should check out TBS's "Sekai Ururun Taizai (World Sojourn)," which, every Sunday at 10 p.m., features a young celebrity traveling to a distant corner of the globe and living with a local family while learning a local skill or craft.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 9, 2001

Adan: A hidden tropical paradise

The chances of discovering Adan by accident are about as great as seeing snow in Okinawa -- in summer. It lies in anonymous residential territory in an unprepossessing quadrant of darkest Mita, well away from the regular foraging trails of mainstream Minato Ward. But even if you were to stumble unaided...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Sep 9, 2001

Katsuya Takasu, holding back the years

Katsuya Takasu regards his body as a vehicle to carry his mind. So what he had done to his face two years ago was, as he puts it, "just like fixing an old jalopy."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 8, 2001

Misako Fedorowicz

SHREWSBURY, England -- This country town of Shropshire in the British Midlands is characterized by its crowding, crooked, black-and-white 16th century houses, clustered within a horseshoe loop of the River Severn. Narrow passages known as shuts link winding streets that keep distinctive names acquired...
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Sep 7, 2001

Siberian chipmunk

BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2001

Air-conditioner production to move

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. plans to relocate part of its home-use air conditioner production to China next year, Matsushita officials said Thursday.
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 6, 2001

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

It's a memory that still pains me to this day. It was a public humiliation -- and the very worst kind. There are those who can shrug off such insults. I am not one of those.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Close and personal

An exhibition of photographs by Miyako Ishiuchi is on show until Nov. 24 at Gallery Deux in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, showing the nails, hands, fingers and feet of men of various nationalities, ages and occupations.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Welcome to wonderland

The Yokohama Triennale, a grand-scale international art exhibition four years in the making, debuted last weekend with a gala party attended by the everyone who is anyone on the Japanese art scene, a sparkle of the global art illuminati, and even Prince Takamado. The 10-week-long exhibition, running...
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Meaning of life found around us and within

Shinjuku Nikon Salon is currently hosting two photo exhibitions offering viewers an opportunity first to delve deep into the living world through the lens of Kusamushi Afuba and then to take a wider view courtesy of Hidetoshi Hamada.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

New fuel-cell Honda unveiled

Honda Motor Co. revealed Tuesday a new fuel cell-powered vehicle that performs almost as well as gasoline-powered cars.
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
Japan doubles down on stimulus to counter effects of Trump tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks about U.S. tariffs in Tokyo last week.
Tokyo court fines Amazon Japan ¥35 million over counterfeit products
Takahiro Fujii (center), the president of Try and E, and his lawyers speak during a news conference on Friday in Tokyo after a ruling was handed down in a case against Amazon Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
How to bring up bad news in Japanese
As in other cultures, when someone shares bad news in Japanese it’s best to respond with supportive words.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

Podcast

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

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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Tsukuba massif granite, one of the world’s few heritage stones
Tsukuba massif granite, one of the world’s few heritage stones

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