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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 10, 2006

Dancer brings the supernaturalto creature at bottom of garden

After a two-week run playing to full houses and widespread acclaim in December, "Skellig" is back. Based on British novelist David Almond's book, which won the author the Whitbread and the Carnegie children's book prizes in 1998, "Skellig" is a play that tells the story of the hero Michael (Konousuke...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 10, 2006

French film festival

The "Festival du Film Francais au Japon" takes place March 15-19 simultaneously in Tokyo and Osaka, showcasing the best in contemporary French cinema.
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ENVIRONMENT
Mar 8, 2006

'Paradise found' -- but not a single panda to be seen

FOPING PANDA RESERVE, China -- "There! In that tree, a month ago, the Netherlands lady saw a baby panda. She was so excited!"
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2006

The radicals return to power in Tehran

WASHINGTON -- Twenty-six years after the Islamic Revolution, just when the West had expected Iran to settle down and become more pragmatic, the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to have lurched back toward radicalism. By looking at earlier revolutions, we can perhaps come to understand what...
EDITORIALS
Mar 5, 2006

Red hats and purple dresses

If you are out on the town one day -- anywhere from Tokyo to Tijuana -- and you suddenly spot a group of animated, middle-aged women all wearing red hats and purple dresses, don't be puzzled. Smile! You might anyway, because it is an oddly heartwarming spectacle when a chapter of the global sisterhood...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 5, 2006

TBS's 'Kodai Hakka-tsu Mystery' reveals secrets to an ancient civilization and more

On Monday, March 6 at 9 p.m., TBS will present a two-hour documentary program on the recent discovery of an ancient civilization. "Kodai Hakka-tsu Mystery (Prehistoric Excavation Mystery)" follows an international team of archaeologists, including artist and Rikkyo University professor Katsuhiko Hibino,...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 4, 2006

Mong-Lan

Although she was only 5 when, with her family, she was evacuated from Saigon, Mong-Lan thinks the events of war and suffering in her early life traumatized her. Thirty years later, critics find in her poetry "the tectonic force of history, beauty and despair." Poetry, giving release to her emotions,...
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CULTURE / Art
Mar 2, 2006

"Thank You Art Day"

Nationwide On March 9
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 2, 2006

Mortensen, Bello jump into the deep end

Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello, co-stars of "A History of Violence," show up for an interview at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo looking like, well, if not an item, close enough friends that they could be mistaken for one. (They even finish each other's sentences.)
LIFE / Language
Feb 28, 2006

To learn the Japanese language, get pod-agogical

With Internet blogs beginning to challenge traditional print media, it was only a matter of time before a new medium broke radio's traditional choke hold on free audio programming. Enter podcasts, the downloadable MP3 audio files that feature mixes of music and chatter created by amateurs worldwide....
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Feb 27, 2006

Of winter sports and economic fortunes: What's the connection?

The Winter Olympics were last held in Japan in 1998. The stage was Nagano, and on that stage, the Japanese athletes performed brilliantly. They won no less than five gold medals, one silver and four bronzes. Many of the winning athletes sported auburn, if not blonde-tinted hair. Some even went for eyebrows...
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Features
Feb 26, 2006

Dateline: Xinjiang

Our plane looked new and well maintained, but as we headed off into the void on the atlas far, far to the northwest of Shanghai, I still wondered if I had made a mistake by not buying some of the "Air Unexpected Insurance" on offer at the airport.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 25, 2006

David Hewett

In 1990, then Tokyo resident Va Maughn served as special project director of Refugees International Japan's first Art of Dining Charity Exhibition here. It was her idea to feature personal table settings as "art on tabletops."
OLYMPICS
Feb 22, 2006

Slump in Turin leaves many back home perplexed

The struggles of Japanese athletes at the Turin Olympic Games have bewildered many back in their country, particularly those who banked on rosy pre-Games medal predictions.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2006

It's not right for the West and Israel to isolate Hamas, the Palestinians' best hope

NEW YORK -- As the son of a Lebanese pacifist, I am dismayed by the widening gap between Palestinians and Israelis that make a possible solution to the con- flict between them seem even more distant.
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LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 21, 2006

Party round-up: Chloe, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, Alexander Lee-Chang . . .

It's been a busy month for the Tokyo style scene, with a flurry of high-profile store openings culminating in an unveiling of the monumental Omotesando Hills that coincided with extravagant 100th anniversary bashes for luxury pen brand Mont Blanc and jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels. All this meant a punishing...
COMMENTARY
Feb 20, 2006

The 'freedom' to disrespect

LONDON -- The furor over cartoons published in a Danish paper last September mocking Islam has not yet ended. One was of the prophet Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb, implying that Islam was a terrorist organization. Muslims were outraged because they saw a false image of Islam conveyed...
EDITORIALS
Feb 18, 2006

What right to torment?

Muslim furor in the Middle East and other parts of the world touched off by the appearance of cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad has led to diplomatic rows, embassy burnings and violent protests. It now begs serious thought about how the media should exercise the rights to freedom of the press...

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