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Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 18, 2006

Sustainable design

To celebrate the 50th year since the founding of the Good Design Awards, the Good Design Presentation 2006 takes place Aug. 23-26 at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba, Tokyo, sponsored by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization. A crowd of 50,000 people are expected to attend, with exhibitors competing...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 18, 2006

Lively Latin jazz trio perform at Enoshima beach

Latin jazz pianist Katsunori Fukay presents an evening of energetic music at the live house Toramaruza on the beach at Enoshima in Kanagawa Prefecture at Sept. 3. Fukay will be joined by electric bassist Yoichi Yahiro and drummer Setsu Fujii and will perform his own compositions in addition to tunes...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 18, 2006

From silver screen to stage

Directed by Matthew Bourne, well-established in Japan following the success a decade ago of his production of "Swan Lake," "Edward Scissorhands" runs through Sept. 3 at the Yu-port Kani Hoken Hall in Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2006

Daughters also unable to reach Asahara

When she was finally allowed to visit her father, she found him in a wheelchair, wearing a diaper. A prison guard took notes throughout the 30-minute encounter, which took place in a small, barren room, through a plate of thick, transparent plastic. It was, for her, a dream come true, but yet a nightmare....
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2006

Pair admit killing violent daughter

A couple were arrested Monday in the Tokyo suburb of Machida after they turned themselves in the previous evening, saying they killed their 21-year-old daughter, who had violently abused them, police said.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2006

Yamasaki opts out of LDP presidential race

Former Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Taku Yamasaki said Monday he will not run in the ruling party's Sept. 20 presidential election, saying he wants to keep his "dignity this time."
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Sax man Pharoah Sanders still hitting the right notes

One of the finest tenor saxophone players of his generation, Pharoah Sanders returns to Japan to play three dates at the Blue Note in Tokyo from Aug. 20-23, before guesting with the Japanese jazz-dance fusion band Sleepwalker as part of Metamorphose, an eclectic one-day dance music/jazz festival taking...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Japan Phil strings keep program secret

A string quartet made up of members of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a mini concert on Aug. 18 in Suginami, western Tokyo. The concert program is being kept a surprise.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Showa Era star remembered

The International Theatre Institute is offering half-price kabuki tickets to foreigners living in Japan for its September program taking place at Kabuki-za theater in Ginza, Tokyo, on Sept. 15-17 (4:30 p.m.).
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2006

Israel-Hezbollah conflict: the end game

LONDON -- The kill ratio is becoming a problem: Israel has been killing about 40 Lebanese civilians for every Israel civilian who is killed. They are all being killed by accident, of course, but such a long chain of accidents begins to look like carelessness, and even in Israel and the United States...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Traditional Bali music

Based near Bali's capital city of Negara, Suar Agung have played jegog (traditional bamboo music from West Bali) to audiences in Japan on more than 30 occasions in the last decade.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Movies with musical theme screened for free in Ebisu

The "Star Light Cinema Festival" is currently screening popular movies with a musical theme free of charge at Yebisu Garden Palace in Ebisu, Tokyo. It is the seventh time that the shopping complex has hosted the festival.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 4, 2006

Architect's exhibition reveals simple aesthetic

Yoshihide Okuma (1905-1984) came to prominence as an architect in the postwar era, establishing a signature style of traditional wooden housing that harked back toward Japan's past when the country itself was undergoing rapid modernization.
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2006

Land prices log first rise in 14 years

The average price of land along selected key thoroughfares nationwide rose for the first time in 14 years, standing at 114,000 yen per sq. meter as of Jan. 1, up 0.9 percent, or 1,000 yen, over a year earlier, the National Tax Agency said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2006

Key defense bid-rigger gets 1 1/2 years

The Tokyo District Court found three former officials of the Defense Facilities Administration Agency guilty Monday of bid-rigging, including on construction assignments at U.S. bases in Japan, and sentenced the key player to prison.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2006

Officials look at extending Indian Ocean refueling law

Government officials are considering seeking an extension of the special antiterrorism law for another year so Japan can continue to refuel U.S. and other nations' ships in the Indian Ocean involved in military operations in Afghanistan, sources said Sunday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 30, 2006

New horizons beckon legendary sailor

This story is part of a package on "Growing old healthily." The introduction is here
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jul 29, 2006

Deven Arora

In his book "A Yen for Yen," Deven Arora from India describes his life in Japan as a "rupees-to-riches success story." He has always, he said, followed six rules: being committed to a dream; believing in self; daring to try unconventional ideas; being unafraid of making mistakes; persevering; and enjoying...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 28, 2006

Oxford University students stage Shakespeare comedy

Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) will arrive in Tokyo on Aug. 12-13 to perform William Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost," described by the society as a "witty battle of the sexes" containing "verbal sparring and love-struck flirtation."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jul 27, 2006

Finally hitting the local

It occurred to me recently that in the more than five years I've been covering contemporary art for The Japan Times, I've never once written about the gallery I visit most frequently -- The Konica Minolta Gallery in Shinjuku.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 23, 2006

Marty K. still alive and well in Eagles' nest

Marty Kuehnert still with Rakuten? What is Marty doing these days?
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2006

Japan Post, JR East eye cash card with Suica functions

Japan Post is talking with East Japan Railway Co. about a plan to issue a cash card with the electronic money and prepaid train ticket functions of JR East's Suica smart card, it was learned Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2006

Ishikawa orders 10,000 evacuated due to heavy rain

Heavy rain drenched wide areas of Japan on Monday, with downpours causing a mudslide and a train derailment in Shimane Prefecture and prompting Ishikawa Prefecture to order more than 10,000 people in Kaga to evacuate.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Jul 18, 2006

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Dear Alice,
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
Race to become next LDP president kicks off again
Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi on Monday became the first to enter the race to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

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