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Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Sep 5, 2009

Ex-army cadet, 81, recalls war mind-set

25th in a series
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 4, 2009

Weekend of jazz features prime performers

Jazz fans are gearing up for a weekend of saxophone, guitar and piano at the 2009 Tokyo Jazz Festival.
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JAPAN
Sep 4, 2009

Futenma shift puts Hatoyama, U.S. ties to test

The next prime minister faces a possible showdown with Washington over a plan to relocate a U.S. air base in Okinawa and in the process move thousands of U.S. Marines from the prefecture to Guam, as he tries to remake his country's relationship with the U.S. while maintaining their strong alliance.
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CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2009

Fresh direction for the Hatakeyama Memorial Museum

A long with other great collections accumulated by early industrialists such as the Goto, Seikado Bunko, Mitsui and Nezu museums, the Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art is a hidden gem where only the very best is to be seen.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 4, 2009

Hungarian choreographer to give Japan a rare treat

Pal Frenak, a Hungarian-born choreographer based in Paris, is coming to Tokyo for a show that will see him both choreograph and dance for the first time in Japan.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2009

11-year-old gets away with voting

A tall 11-year-old girl voted Sunday in the Lower House election and her ballots were counted as valid, an Osaka Election Management Committee official said.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 30, 2009

Avian killing fields of lotus

Earlier this year it was reported that one of the 10 Crested ibises reintroduced to the wild on Sado Island last autumn had turned up in Fukushima Prefecture, in central Honshu. The islanders worried that Nipponia nippon, which had come to represent their Japan Sea home, had abandoned them.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 30, 2009

Ryuichi Sakomoto on 'Bakusho,' dishes worth tears and 'The Host's Wife'

This week the subject of "Bakusho Mondai no Nippon no Kyoyo" (Bakusho Mondai's Japan Education; NHK-G, Tues., 10:50 p.m.) is music, but not necessarily Japanese music.
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COMMUNITY
Aug 29, 2009

Corporate exec puts the planet's needs on par with the bottom line

The church that Bill Werlin attended as a child had no walls. "I grew up in the mountains. People would ask me where my church was and I would point out the window and say, 'right there,' " he says.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 28, 2009

Children get opportunity to experience traditional Japanese arts

Anyone interested in exploring the field of traditional Japanese music need look no further than the "Introductory Traditional Japanese Music Concerts" being staged at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in Ikebukuro from Aug. 28-30.
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 28, 2009

Bathing in timeless memories

Artist Shinro Ohtake discusses with The Japan Times "inside-out" buildings, private memories, public meanings and other inspirations underlying the "I Love Yu" bathhouse at Naoshima.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 26, 2009

How bureaucrats spell logic in Romanized Japanese

Tomorrow I will go to Sinzyuku to meet my old friends Mr. Tutida and Ms. Oisi. We will get some susi and then end up in Kabuki-tyo, drinking syoutyū until the syūden.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2009
Aug 25, 2009

Tanaka battling in New Komeito heartland

AMAGASAKI, Hyogo Pref. — Yasuo Tanaka, the leader of New Party Nippon and former governor of Nagano, is attempting to unseat New Komeito heavyweight Tetsuzo Fuyushiba in a race widely seen as a test of Tanaka's popularity in a region where his volunteer activities after the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake...
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Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Aug 25, 2009

Socializing on the volleyball court in Roppongi

Roppongi on Saturday morning tends to be quiet and empty, and pretty much all you see moving there apart from cars and trucks are a few sleep-deprived, hung-over remnants of the Friday night party crowd hobbling toward the station.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Aug 25, 2009

One pocket knife, nine days' lockup

Following are a selection of readers' responses to the July 28 Hotline to Nagatacho column headlined "Pocket knife lands tourist, 74, in lockup."
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CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2009

Refashioning the J-pop scene

Yasutaka Nakata is bouncing around like some kind of postmodern electro Tigger in front of a sea of adoring fans, almost uniformly young, beautiful and well-dressed. His DJ set taken in large part from his group capsule's own music, with the odd track thrown in by electro-tinged idol pop phenomenon Perfume...
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 21, 2009

Be a fool and dance Bon-odori

If you spend your life stuck in one of Japan's concrete jungles, you may have never seen a Bon-odori (Bon-dance) performed at the summer Bon festivals held all over the country in towns and villages, where people dance in a circle or in line, making the same moves together to traditional Japanese music....
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2009

DPJ to shed light on secret pacts

Will the Democratic Party of Japan shine a light on the government's darkest security secrets if elected to power, and if so, how will this affect relations with the United States?
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 16, 2009

Sakai's twin personalities were falling apart before bust

The advice column in the Aug. 1 Asahi Shimbun ran a letter from a 30-year-old woman who despaired over her obsession with male idols, wondering if it was the reason she didn't have a boyfriend. The guest adviser was University of Tokyo Professor Chizuko Ueno, who told her to relax. She'd survived 30...
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CULTURE / Stage
Aug 14, 2009

Playwright Tomohiro Maekawa finds the uncanny in the mundane

In February this year, 35-year-old Tomohiro Maekawa's reputation was given a boost when he was nominated in both the best-playwright and best-director categories of the prestigious Yomiuri Theater Awards. Although Maekawa didn't walk away with an award; the nominations, coming just six years after he...
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 14, 2009

A little Indonesia in Tokyo

Spicy curry, beautiful batik fabrics and traditional Javanese dancing, Tokyo's Yoyogi Park will transform into a Little Indonesia Aug. 15-16.
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CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Aug 14, 2009

Hachiko: A Dog's Story

Director: Lasse Hallstrom
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 10, 2009

Free java, no jive

Step back Starbucks. McDonald's is making a power move on the coffee market in Japan with free java.

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji