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JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

34 modern novels to be translated for P.R.

The Cultural Affairs Agency has selected 34 modern Japanese novels to be translated into English, French and other languages to promote understanding of Japanese culture abroad, agency officials have said.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2005

Icebreaker departs for Antarctica

The 11,600-ton icebreaker Shirase left Tokyo Monday, bound for Antarctica on Japan's 47th observation mission there.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 15, 2005

Marie-Helene de Taillac, Side by Side, Viliue cosmetics, Youth Records

Staff writer A gem of an idea
EDITORIALS
Nov 13, 2005

The pop-word culture

The dictionary frowns on words it snootily labels "informal." Teachers and newspaper copy editors carry a grudge against slang. Nearly everyone recoils from jargon. But according to a new book irresistibly titled "Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and,...
CULTURE / Music
Nov 11, 2005

Hard-Fi

Richard Archer, the leader of England's Hard-Fi, claims there's no point in being another indie band. "I'm not in competition with Razorlight or The Killers," he says on the band's Web site. "I'm in competition with Eminem." The British music press seems to think he actually has a shot at Shady's level...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 10, 2005

The thing itself

In October 1968 Nobuo Sekine dug a hole in the ground, shaped the extracted dirt into a large cylinder and called the work "Phase -- Mother Earth." It was probably an experiment, influenced by discussions of the new Land Art and Minimalist works taking place in the United States.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Tsutaya operator triples net profit to 3.28 billion yen

Culture Convenience Club Co. said its first-half net profit more than tripled to 3.28 billion, yen thanks to strong revenue growth from rental DVD movies.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 8, 2005

Spreading the spirit of an old Japanese tradition

It's probably a sign of impending old age but these days, I find myself recalling the words of my late grandmother and applying them to current life situations.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 8, 2005

The art of having fun in style

Agnes Trouble Bourgeois, known to the world as Agnes B., started to design clothes at the age of 19 and opened her first boutique in Les Halles in Paris in 1976. Twenty-nine years later, her company has 129 boutiques, selling clothes, accessories and travel goods around the globe. While there are 32...
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2005

Amway ready for greater triumph in China after tough years in Japan

For direct-selling giant Amway Co., China is fast becoming its most lucrative overseas market, far surpassing sales in the massive yet troublesome Japanese market.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2005

Five honored with Order of Culture

President Jinnosuke Ashida, 71, for his contribution to the labor movement. Other recipients of the order are Minoru Makihara, 75, former chairman of Mitsubishi Corp., and former Justice Minister Shozaburo Nakamura, 71.
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 / CABINET INTERVIEW
Nov 3, 2005

Make English mandatory for elementary pupils, Kosaka says

The new education minister believes English education should be made mandatory for elementary school students.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 3, 2005

Pushkin delivers the goods

It's no secret what the mainstream art public really like -- soft, flowery Impressionism and cute, colorful Post-impressionism, with, possibly, a smattering of Picassos and Matisses thrown in to add grit. Hold a show with this kind of art, and you'll have to hang the paintings high so that people can...
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2005

English test to gauge education level

About 1,000 junior high school students will be tested in November on their ability to speak English as part of the government's efforts to ascertain the situation of English education in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2005

Gun control loses yet again

LONDON -- Last Sunday in Brazil, a country with the second-highest rate of gun deaths on the planet, almost two-thirds of Brazilians voted against a total ban on the sale of firearms. Explain that.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 30, 2005

Akiyuki Nosaka's "Hotaru no Haka" dramatized in Nihon TV's "Drama Complex" and more

This week, Nihon TV launches a new series called "Drama Complex" with a three-hour adaptation of Akiyuki Kosaka's best-selling novel "Hotaru no Haka (Grave of Fireflies)" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), which is set during World War II.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 30, 2005

What lies beneath the myth of middle-class consciousness

A friend sent me an email about some new people, all Japanese, she had met at a party. There was a young man who had worked in Africa for Medecins Sans Frontieres. One middle-age man had quit a stable job in broadcasting to study French in Paris. A female graduate student in marine biology was also there....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 29, 2005

New Asian Collection gallery is dream come true

Robert Tobin makes charismatic progress around the back side of Ebisu Station in central Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 29, 2005

Yuki Akimoto

Yuko Akimoto and her brother began the right way by choosing their parents well. Their father, Minoru Akimoto, has an M.A. from Michigan State University. From a business career at the top, he retired as executive vice president of Itochu Corp. Their poetic, music-loving mother, Taeko, runs her own musical...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 27, 2005

The man in black

For a man whose entire cinematic career has been devoted to portraying maladjusted types who don't fit in, Tim Burton is certainly comfortable holding a microphone in front of a crowd. Then again, that is the deal with artists: turn your oddities and idiosyncrasies into art and watch your childhood rejection...
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Koizumi breaks fast with Muslims

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hosted a dinner at his office Monday to break the day's fast for diplomats from about 40 Islamic nations, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 22, 2005

Margarita Carrillo de Salinas

"The most important room in our house in Mexico was the huge kitchen. We six children went in with our bicycles; our mother was cooking, we all helped. Our grandparents were there -- our father, a lawyer, was always encouraging family life around the table. That is the way I got my interest in food,"...
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.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 20, 2005

PIFF: Asia's magnet for movies

The Pusan International Film Festival, which took place Oct. 6-14, marked its 10th year with its biggest program ever -- 307 films from 73 countries. These numbers alone make PIFF the largest annual film-related event in Asia, and with the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) taking place in the Korean port city...
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...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 15, 2005

Learn to live and love consciously in workshop

Katie (Kathlyn) Hendricks sounds as clear as a bell on a three-way line between California, to which she has just returned from Colorado, and Japan. "I was in Boulder, Colo., facilitating a workshop not dissimilar to the three-day foundation training in conscious living and loving that is being arranged...
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
Chinese fighters came within 30 meters of Japanese spy aircraft, Tokyo says
A Chinese JH-7 fighter jet makes an near an Air Self-Defense Force YS-11EB surveillance aircraft over the East China Sea this week in this image released Thursday.
What Japanese politics could look like after Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (center) waves to attendees as he departs after delivering a campaign speech in Yokohama on Sunday.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
Once a niche, anime is now mainstream content for Netflix and other streaming services
Though Netflix remains the dominant choice globally for anime viewers, Amazon Prime Video has also invested heavily in anime, steadily adding titles to their catalogue.
NGOs condemn rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of Upper House vote
Sanseito head Sohei Kamiya holds a board that reads "Japanese First" in Tokyo on July 2. In a joint statement on Tuesday, eight human rights nongovernmental organizations described the far-right party's stance as "hate speech."
Japanese dancers find a home abroad at Houston Ballet
“Giselle” lead Yuriko Kajiya (center), performing with Connor Walsh as Albrecht, is one of six Japanese dancers at Houston Ballet.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.

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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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