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CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Nov 11, 2005

Psychedelic radar 11.11

Saturday, Nov. 12
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 10, 2005

Tokion talks Tokyo

Uber-cool magazine Tokion has been investigating the cutting edge of creative subcultures for almost 10 years. Having started as a Japanese/English bilingual culture magazine in 1996, it now has separate editions in each language and a cult following on both sides of the Pacific.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / U.S. THINK TANK SYMPOSIUM
Nov 10, 2005

Japan must defuse wartime issues with neighbors

Despite post-9/11 changes in American strategic thinking, the U.S. alliance with Japan today is more important and healthier than ever, but Japan's troubled relations with its Asian neighbors can prove to be a serious problem for the alliance, said Eric Heginbotham, a political scientist with the RAND...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 5, 2005

Troubles continue to grow for struggling Manchester United

LONDON -- In the ideal world most neutrals would like both Manchester United and Chelsea to lose when the clubs meet at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 4, 2005

Portugal and Brazil united in one voice

Fado, the passionate, powerful music of Portugal, was -- and still is -- sung in the local bars and small eateries for working people. The music's spirit is saudade, a word that translates roughly as nostalgia, melancholy or longing, though mixed with happiness and love. Fado's greatest singer was Amalia...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Nov 4, 2005

Psychedelic radar 11.04

Saturday, Nov. 5
COMMENTARY
Nov 2, 2005

No changing colors in China

HONG KONG -- Two weeks ago, China issued a 23,000-word white paper on democracy, the first time the Communist government had ever done so. However, instead of being a blueprint for the development of representative government, the white paper turned out to be a defense of the perpetuation of the monopoly...
COMMENTARY
Oct 31, 2005

Students need analytical skills

One characteristic of Japanese universities is that they provide highly specialized education for undergraduate students. This is partly because high-school students receive a high level of science education. In fact, their knowledge level in math and physics is one of the highest in the world. Thus,...
MULTIMEDIA
Oct 30, 2005

Speaking volumes

Kaori Shoji
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Oct 28, 2005

Psychedelic radar 10.28

Saturday, Oct. 29
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Oct 28, 2005

The velvety allure of Aoyama

Aoyama is full of small, high-end hideaways where service is delivered in studied silence and conversations are reduced to a whisper.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2005

Rakuten increases TBS stake to more than 19%

Rakuten Inc. said Wednesday it has raised its stake in Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. to 19.09 percent, only a tad short of the TV network's 20 percent threshold for triggering a process that could lead to the activation of takeover defense measures.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2005

NPO attempts to educate public about terrorism

A nonprofit organization that brings together former Defense Agency officials, academics and doctors is working to educate the public about potential terrorist attacks using nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological materials.
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2005

Saddam Hussein on trial

The trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein began last week in Baghdad. While Hussein and seven others are the defendants of record, the real focus is the tribunal itself -- its legitimacy and by extension, that of the current government in Iraq. Never before has justice been so important to Iraq....
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 21, 2005

The art of sencha

The Seventh Sencha (non-powdered green tea) Ceremony will be held Oct. 22 at the Mukojima Hyakkaen Botanical Garden in Sumida Ward, Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2005

Waseda honors German statesman

Waseda University conferred an honorary doctorate on former German President Richard von Weizsaecker on Thursday, citing his contributions to world peace through his political career.
EDITORIALS
Oct 20, 2005

The squeeze on Syria

The suicide of Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan is a sign of the steadily growing pressure on the Syrian government. Mr. Kanaan's death eliminates a central figure in the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, but it will not end the inquiry, nor is it likely...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 20, 2005

The aesthetics of the Korean noblewoman

Korean aesthetics can be summed up in one word, mot. Used frequently in casual conversation, the term refers to stylishness, elegance and the state of being chic.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2005

Proposals threaten South Korean growth

NEW DELHI -- Han Duck Soo, South Korea's deputy prime minister and minister of finance and economy, has unleashed a perfect storm of destructive policy proposals that may ensure that his country's economy remains stuck in under-performance mode. His declarations reveal him to be an inept custodian of...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 18, 2005

Funding, adoption and cigars

There was no column last week due to the monthly press holiday falling on a Monday.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 16, 2005

UNEAR THING FACT IN CLASSIC FICTION

'Robinson Crusoe" has fascinated explorer Daisuke Takahashi ever since his elementary school days, when he first read the classic adventure tale about a British sailor who lived on a desert island for 28 years. Imagining that he, too, was marooned on an isolated island, the young Takahashi would roast...
EDITORIALS
Oct 13, 2005

Nobel prize for fighting proliferation

Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog agency that he leads, are the winners of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. The award underscores the critical significance of the work done by Mr. ElBaradei and the IAEA. But given the events of the last year, it...
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2005

Six insurance execs face pay cuts

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. said Wednesday it will cut the pay of President Hiroyuki Uemura and five other executives over a scandal in which it failed to make payments in some 25,000 cases over a three-year period.
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2005

Mitsukoshi, Shochiku eye kabuki

Mitsukoshi Ltd. and Shochiku Co. said Tuesday they will form a business alliance to develop kabuki-related products.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2005

Homemaking guru in hot water for talking about food in lieu of Diet

New Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Makiko Fujino, the "charismatic housewife" elected in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election, took heat from her colleagues Friday after she missed a Diet session the day before to make two public presentations on cooking in Fukuoka, officials of the ruling...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2005

Australia gets tough on terror

SYDNEY -- Tough new laws enforcing preventive detention of suspected terrorists will soon drastically change the laid-back response that Australia has so far allowed to the growing world threat of terrorism. But even before new laws start, the wails of protests from civil-liberty groups are deafening....
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2005

Disneyland attendance fell during expo

The Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea amusement parks had a total of 11.66 million visits in the six months through September, down 3.1 percent from a year earlier, amid the just-ended Aichi World Expo, according to operator Oriental Land Co.

Longform

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