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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
May 26, 2002

Phew: There and back again

Hiromi Moritani looks like a typical, well-heeled matron. Her chic black ensemble is a touch artier than the average mother's wardrobe, but sitting in her record label's office, her conversation dwells on the perils and pitfalls of being a mom. Hearing her fret over her young son and the evening's dinner...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
May 26, 2002

Romancing the sake rice

With wine, it's all about the grape, and this leads to boundless potential for conversation and enjoyment above and beyond flavors and aromas.
COMMUNITY
May 26, 2002

Art and life in a bowl

Like a gossamer web, drifting in mist, the threads that link Japan's traditional arts can be hard to grasp. Yet some links become visible as soon as a keen observer points them out.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
May 26, 2002

Wartime suffering that didn't count

JAPAN'S COMFORT WOMEN: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War Two and the U.S. Occupation. By Yuki Tanaka. Routledge, London, 2002, 212 pp. $24.95 This is by far the best book available on this sordid chapter in Japan's history. Yuki Tanaka's sophisticated and textured assessment of Japan's...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 26, 2002

The pick of the crop

IRUMA, Saitama Pref. -- Despite global warming and technological developments in agriculture worldwide, still some things have never changed. Just ask tea farmer Toshiharu Kato.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 26, 2002

Pro-whalers living on a harpoon and a prayer

The increasing media flurry over the upcoming World Cup must be frustrating to the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, which had been preparing for a year to make sure that this past week would be their moment in the spotlight. As the de facto hosts of the 54th annual plenary session of the...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 26, 2002

Marketing message in a bottle

Wherever you go, wherever you look, shelves are stacked with it, vending machines are loaded with it and people are toting it in their burando bags and natty knapsacks. And that's not to mention all those billboards, magazine ads and TV spots keeping green tea up close and personal to residents of these...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
May 26, 2002

Victor Segalen: searching out the strange to find a way home

VICTOR SEGALEN AND THE AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY: Journeys Between Cultures, by Charles Forsdick. Oxford University Press, 2000, 242 pp., 40 pounds (cloth) In 1919, 41-year-old Victor Segalen was found dead in a Breton forest, a copy of Shakespeare beside him, the pages opened to "Hamlet." Thus ended the...
JAPAN
May 26, 2002

Kawaguchi seeks talks on islands

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi is hoping to inject fresh momentum into bilateral peace treaty negotiations with Russia by holding talks with her Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov, on the sidelines of the upcoming meeting of the Group of Eight foreign ministers in Canada, sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 26, 2002

Enough to make Spanish eyes smile

In case you hadn't noticed, Spanish food is big right now -- or at least that's what the vernacular magazines would have us believe. This, of course, is not the first time it's been touted as the next big thing. But somehow a critical mass of popularity was never achieved, and Spain's culinary profile...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
May 26, 2002

Where to get your kicks

As Japan braces itself for the influx of soccer fans, the media is keeping a careful eye on potential hot spots -- including Roppongi, Tokyo's gaijin HQ. Though no World Cup matches will be played inside Tokyo, Roppongi is expected to take the brunt of post-game soccer fans out to celebrate their wins...
COMMUNITY
May 26, 2002

Fired with flavor

The Hagi yunomi (teacup) on my desk is stained from years of use, and some might even say it looks a bit shabby. I prefer to call it full of aji (flavor), the way a pottery connoisseur describes an item with character and patina.
SOCCER / World cup
May 25, 2002

Guidelines for changes on tickets given

The Japanese World Cup Organizing Committee on Friday announced the details for changing the name of World Cup ticket holders following an agreement reached with FIFA to broaden the reasons for the change in Thursday's FIFA ticketing sub-committee meeting.
JAPAN
May 25, 2002

Tokyo-Seoul panel on history ready to meet for first time

Japan and South Korea will hold the inaugural meeting of their joint history research committee Saturday in Seoul to promote better mutual understanding of history among scholars, Foreign Ministry officials said Friday.
JAPAN
May 25, 2002

LDP weighs law to close Diet loophole

The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided Friday to consider legislation that would force Diet members who are elected as a party's proportional representation candidate to step down if they leave their party, LDP Secretary General Taku Yamasaki said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MUSEUM MUSINGS
May 25, 2002

Museum offers its visitors hands-on experience for drumming up a storm

On the fourth floor of a small building near the Sumida River in old-town Tokyo, people are making a racket in Megumi Ochi's museum.
JAPAN
May 25, 2002

Chongryon sues publisher, lawmaker

A high-ranking official of a pro-Pyongyang group in Japan filed a lawsuit Friday against a publisher and lawmaker over claims that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il asked the official to send Japanese public funds to Pyongyang.
JAPAN
May 25, 2002

Japan still seeks to settle consulate discrepancies

Japan will seek further talks with China and South Korea over the case of five North Koreans whose attempt to seek asylum at a Japanese consulate in China was frustrated by local police, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday.
COMMUNITY
May 25, 2002

Ocean photographer passionate over dying seas

He stands on the prow of a ship, camera ready for the perfect shot of dolphins as they leap skyward. He directs film and video for movies and TV to amaze viewers with images of whales. And he dives with underwater equipment to record the life of the oceans. Meet Bob Talbot, indisputably the most respected...
JAPAN
May 25, 2002

Search of Suzuki premises yields web of lies

Two political organizations for scandal-tainted lawmaker Muneo Suzuki registered themselves as political entities by using the names of secretaries to Suzuki without the aides' permission, sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2002

Japan requests steel talks with China

Japan on Friday requested a meeting with China to discuss that country's provisional import curbs on steel products, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
May 25, 2002

Petunia diet: key to a long, slender body

Are you a city dweller living in a high-rise apartment block? Do you miss having trees as neighbors? Have the few plants you tried to grow on the veranda died of asthma? I offer all you smog dwellers my garden: a virtual garden where you too can grow tomatoes and even pick off the worms. Or just be glad...
JAPAN
May 25, 2002

USC program aims to foster Japan entrepreneurs

With the intention of encouraging entrepreneurial activity in Japan, the University of Southern California is recruiting candidates for a 15-member entrepreneurial development program scheduled to start in July, according to Rebecca Weintraub, visiting director of USC's Center for Corporate and Community...
JAPAN
May 24, 2002

Pesticide found in spinach at Jonathan's restaurants

Illegally high levels of pesticide residue have been found in frozen spinach imported from China and used by the Jonathan's restaurant chain, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Thursday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
May 24, 2002

Wolf spider

* Japanese name: Komori-gumo * Scientific name: Pardosa astigera * Description: Wolf spiders are dark brown, predatory and fast-moving spiders measuring 7-10 mm long. Females may continue to grow after they are sexually mature. They do not spin webs like many spiders. They have eight eyes, in pairs:...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 24, 2002

We dig chimp culture

Most of what we know about ancient cultures comes from what they've left behind. Archaeology tells us, for example, about daily life in England before the Romans came and put an end to bad sanitation, and about intellectual life in Europe before the Dark Ages put an end to learning. We even know that...
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
80 years on, former teacher conveys history of hidden island in World War II
Masayuki Yamauchi teaches junior high school students about the history of Okunoshima, an island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, in May.
1,010 food and beverage prices to rise in Japan in August
The price increases in August will be especially noticeable for dairy products, including milk and yogurt, according to the research firm Teikoku Databank.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima
“Memory of Lines” is Chiharu Shiota’s second art installation on Teshima as part of the Setouchi Triennale.
How the Japanese TV industry is changing
Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Fuji TV came under fire over the manner in which it handled a case of “sexual trouble” involving former boy band member Masahiro Nakai and a female announcer.

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