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JAPAN
Oct 27, 2007

Nova students give poor grades to management

Though forewarned of their language school's financial woes, students Friday reacted to the news of Nova Corp.'s bankruptcy with shock and disappointment.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 26, 2007

Israeli dance company finds friends in Saitama

With ever-more dance productions being staged at such mainstream Tokyo venues as Theater Cocoon in Shibuya, Setagaya Public Theater in Sangenjaya and even the New National Theater in Hatsudai, dance has clearly become an integral component of the performance-arts scene here.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 26, 2007

Japanese comic storytelling in English

Rakugo story-teller Katsura Kaishi will give an English-language performance on Nov. 7 in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. Originating in the Edo Period (1603-1868), this traditional form of Japanese entertainment sees a lone rakugo-ka (story-teller) sitting on a stage in kimono relating a long and complicated...
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Oct 24, 2007

From WiFi digital radio to PCs maid in Akihabara

Radio star: Television did not kill off radio, but it knocked it from the top perch in the entertainment food chain and forced it to change immensely. The iPod revolution, however, has rather surprisingly breathed new life into the old medium. Internet radio brings the world's music to you, quite literally....
COMMENTARY
Oct 22, 2007

Let MSDF refueling law die

Late last month a gathering in Yokohama remembered the victims of a U.S. military jet crash in a residential area 30 years ago. I was stunned to learn that a Japanese Self-Defense Force helicopter that had rushed to the scene of the crash flew away with two slightly injured U.S. servicemen without looking...
Reader Mail
Oct 21, 2007

Training trumps escalator design

Regarding the Oct. 17 article "Boy's head gets trapped between escalator, wall": Although I can sympathize over this tragedy, when is the real problem -- children riding escalators/elevators with no training or adult supervision -- going to be addressed? You can engineer safety into these things to...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 21, 2007

Denver fan from Japan proud of Kazuo Matsui, Rockies

I knew we would hear from Ken Shimada, the Japanese fan living in Colorado who always boasts about Kazuo Matsui and the Rockies. Ken's most recent e-mail states:
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 21, 2007

The power of telling tales versus making apologies

In his new book, "The Political Brain," Drew Westen analyzes in detail the election debates of 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Westen points out that it was Gore's dispassionate approach to issues that hurt him. Bush, then as now, presents himself as someone who knows what is right (and moral)...
COMMENTARY
Oct 19, 2007

Timely apology calms an Asian storm

LOS ANGELES — Donald Tsang, the executive leader of Hong Kong, recently apologized to his good citizens for something he said he didn't really mean. But the people of Hong Kong said they thought they heard it right the first time: that he believed the territory's rapid democratization, which many people...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 19, 2007

Berlin-based artists unite

Writer Yoko Tawada and jazz pianist Aki Takase will perform together on Nov. 2 as part of Art Complex 2007, a new project held by Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, which combines chamber music, art, theater and contemporary dance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / TAKING A CHANCE
Oct 17, 2007

Florist brings affordable flowers to the masses

Hideaki Inoue, president of the company that runs the Aoyama Flower Market chain, earlier in life had no particular interest in flowers. But today, the former accountant cannot live without them.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2007

Ex-gangster shot by gunmen in Tokyo shopping area

Kyodo News A man was shot and later pronounced dead Sunday after several men opened fire on him with handguns on a street in a busy commercial district in Tokyo's Taito Ward, police said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Oct 14, 2007

Yaki-imo: A hot potato for Japan's traffic authorities

As the cicadas of summer finally go silent, a well-known autumn vocalist is bursting into song — and, fingers crossed, nothing else.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2007

Mukai to head medicine, biology research at JAXA

plan for (astronauts) to stay on the moon and Mars," she said. At the office, which was launched in April, Mukai will head research into medical support for astronauts and the influence of the space environment on life forms, according to JAXA.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Oct 7, 2007

Nahoko Yamazaki: Off-stage woman stars in men's theater world

Just as in the realm of politics, in the arts world — and here, particularly regarding the performing arts — different countries adopt different policies depending on their historical and economic circumstances.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Oct 5, 2007

All at sea in Shinagawa

In Edo Period Shinagawa, popular footwear included geta (traditional wooden sandals) perched on meter-high, box-frame stilts weighted down with large stones. A fashionista freakout? Not exactly. Turns out these uberplatforms, a pair of which are on display at the Shinagawa Historical Museum, were designed...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 5, 2007

Greek tragedy raises 3,000-year-old questions

Here's a three-act play with a difference or three — or four, or more. For starters, "Performing Women" comprises three standalone plays, each about a different Ancient Greek tragic heroine, each under a different director and each linked not just by their common theme but also by a fourth director's...
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2007

Early alert system for quakes launched

predict (the size of the quake) because only limited areas suffered major tremors," a Meteorological Agency official explained. The quake posted an intensity of lower 5 in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, where a 60-year-old woman fell and dislocated her shoulder. A 60-year-old man was taken to a hospital...
LIFE / Language
Oct 2, 2007

Giving Japanese names as tricky as picking buns

When you see an obvious mistake, should you point it out or just keep silent? It was coming up to Christmas, and I was in the bakery beside the station getting a sandwich for my lunch, when I noticed something new on the shelves: hot cross buns.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 28, 2007

Indian white tea, anniversary lunches, Shanghai specialties and Halloween grub

Experience India's white tea From Sept. 27, the last Thursday of each month will be "White Tea Experience" day at the 45th-floor lobby lounge of the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo in the Midtown complex in Tokyo.

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