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JAPAN
Sep 8, 2008

Rogue monkey is leading Tokyo police officers on a not-so-merry chase

Japan's most-wanted fugitive has been eluding police for nearly a month. He slips urban dragnets. He runs through crowded train stations, shocking commuters. He even urinates in public.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 7, 2008

Multiple interpretations of a tale told in many forms

ENVISIONING "THE TALE OF GENJI": Media, Gender, and Cultural Production, edited by Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, 400 pp., 11 color plates, 66 b/w illustrations, $32.50 (paper) "The Tale of Genji," Murasaki Shikibu's long monogatari, upwards of a thousand pages in translation,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / LETTERS FROM KOBE
Sep 5, 2008

Letter trove details Occupation life

More than 1,000 pages of handwritten letters from 1947 to 1948 by an American woman who witnessed and described in detail the Allied Occupation of Japan have been discovered in Nebraska and recently obtained by The Japan Times.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / GRAND OLD HOTELS
Sep 5, 2008

The Parnassus of Surugadai

Ochanomizu, the Tokyo neighborhood stretching from Yushima, Bunkyo Ward, to Kanda, Chiyoda Ward, gives good vibes. Jazz, rock and reggae spill from music stores and guitar shops lining Meiji-dori as it drops south toward Yasukuni-dori. Mid-slope is Meiji University's Liberty Tower, where one drizzly...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 5, 2008

Psy-trance partygoers get set for The Gathering weekend

Now in its 11th year, The Gathering, organized by Vision Quest Tokyo, is Japan's largest open-air festival for psychedelic trance music. It's got the biggest stage. It's got the biggest lineup. But does it attract the most people?
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 5, 2008

A healthy pick-me-up at the train station

What is the secret to surviving the heat of a Tokyo summer? For some it's ice cream or beer. Traditionalists might say broiled eel or tokoroten jelly. But there are a growing number of people for whom the answer is vinegar; not any old acetic acid, but the molasses-black vinegar known as kurozu.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2008

One-night stand set for hot '90s go-go club

Kumiko Araki has been waiting 14 years for Juliana Tokyo, a dance club that was a sensation in the capital in the early 1990s, to stage a comeback.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2008

Police take 'dead' doll for autopsy

Police are trying to determine whether they were the victims of a hoax after what they thought was a body inside a sleeping bag turned out to be a life-size doll.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2008

Change-bent public pines for leadership

Perplexity, apathy and hopes for a strong leader.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 30, 2008

Getting back on the horse

This year's sublime fiasco with the sub-prime mortgage market in the United States had made me wince at the plight of U.S. mortgage holders, even though I am not one of them and I have but a buck ninety-eight invested in American banks.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2008

51 poisonous snakes found in bite victim's Tokyo condo

A Tokyo man was arrested Wednesday after police found as many as 51 poisonous snakes, including cobras with extremely powerful venom, in his condominium near JR Harajuku Station in Shibuya Ward.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2008

Sumo career goes up in smoke

It appears that the Japan Sumo Association lacks the ability and determination to rid itself of scandals. Wakanoho has become not only the first active sekitori wrestler to be arrested, but also the first active wrestler to be dismissed in sumo history. His arrest on suspicion of possession of marijuana...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 23, 2008

Communicating through the unsaid

Sculptor Gakushi Yamamoto arrives looking as if he tumbled out of bed — or rather rolled off his futon and into the nearest shirt and pair of jeans that came to hand. And that may be so, considering he has had to travel two hours to meet up in Moto-Azabu for 10 a.m.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 22, 2008

'Tokyo!'

Like any other big city, Tokyo does things to you. The three directors in the omnibus movie "Tokyo!" however, inflict their penetrating stare upon the city and don't flinch when the city gazes right back — they all give as good as they get. They know that what happens here is both unique and ubiquitous...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 22, 2008

Special screening set for 'Fragment'

"Fragment," a documentary film by the young director Makoto Sasaki that follows the journey of a young Buddhist monk will be shown on Aug. 26 in Tokyo.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2008

Moscow called West's bluff

Forty years ago this week, the night sky above Prague began to rumble with the sound of transport aircraft. On distant frontiers, tanks lurched forward. The invasion of Czechoslovakia had begun.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2008

Travelers turning to highway buses to save on fares

At a time when food prices are on the rise and income levels remain flat, it's not easy finding the money for shinkansen tickets, which cost ¥13,240 per person for a nonreserved seat from Tokyo to Osaka.
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2008

Mercedes thinks small, upgrades hatchbacks

Mercedes-Benz Japan Co. launched two upgraded versions of its hatchback compacts Wednesday that boast better fuel efficiency to meet rising demand for environment-friendly vehicles.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Aug 20, 2008

The face that launched a thousand robots

KYOTO — Eighty years ago, an exhibition was held in Kyoto to celebrate Emperor Hirohito's ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2008

'Inaudible' ringtone confounds adults

For at least 1,000 years, the struggle has continued.

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