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JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Bomb blast rocks city hall men's room

OSAKA -- Two explosions ripped through a first floor restroom in Osaka City Hall Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 employees for about an hour.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Bomb blast rocks city hall men's room

OSAKA -- Two explosions ripped through a first floor restroom in Osaka City Hall Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 employees for about an hour.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

City hall restroom blast forces evacuation in Osaka

OSAKA -- Two explosions ripped through a first floor restroom in Osaka City Hall Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 employees for about an hour.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

City hall restroom blast forces evacuation in Osaka

OSAKA -- Two explosions ripped through a first floor restroom in Osaka City Hall Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 employees for about an hour.
COMMUNITY
Feb 4, 2001

Heaven to Earth without explanation or apology

Anyone who thinks the art of painting is dead should head for the Towa Building on Tokyo's Meiji-dori and take the lift to Galerie Le Deco on the fifth floor. It is here that German artist David Garde is showing work created since last September: objects, installations and paintings that disturb and...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

CD-ROMs aid the visually impaired

KYOTO -- Yuko Shiomi, a professional narrator with the radio station KBS Kyoto, speaks into a microphone. Her role is that of "Kakuunsai," a fictional character depicting a distinguished calligrapher.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2001

CD-ROMs aid the visually impaired

KYOTO -- Yuko Shiomi, a professional narrator with the radio station KBS Kyoto, speaks into a microphone. Her role is that of "Kakuunsai," a fictional character depicting a distinguished calligrapher.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2001

Europe puts out feelers toward N. Korea

A mixture of adventure, altruism and a desire not to be left behind economically is responsible for the European plunge into Korean political affairs that began this year. First Italy and then, in rapid succession, Belgium, Britain and Germany have dispatched missions to Pyongyang. Only France held back,...
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2001

Year in prison sought for accused MSDF spy

Prosecutors demanded Thursday a one-year prison term for former Maritime Self-Defense Force Lt. Cmdr. Shigehiro Hagisaki, 38, who is charged with passing defense secrets to a Russian military attache in exchange for cash.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2001

Mori consoles train hero's family

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori offered condolences Thursday to the family of a Yokohama photographer who was killed Friday while trying to save a man who had fallen onto railway tracks.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Colleges brace as fewer apply

Tadataka Koide, president of Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya, is awaiting this month's entrance exams with anticipation and anxiety.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Mori highlights reform, recovery, IT

Introduction At the opening of the 151st session of the Diet, as the prime minister of Japan charged with the affairs of state as we mark the turn of the century, I would like to state my views as I once again brace myself to bear forward the burden of responsibility in this historical era.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Mori highlights reform, recovery, IT

Introduction At the opening of the 151st session of the Diet, as the prime minister of Japan charged with the affairs of state as we mark the turn of the century, I would like to state my views as I once again brace myself to bear forward the burden of responsibility in this historical era.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 1, 2001

Making work a lifestyle choice instead of just making a living

In an effort to get some idea of why the suicide rate among college students is on the rise, the weekly magazine AERA recently sent a reporter to the Muroran Institute of Technology, where there have been seven student suicides in the last two years.
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Feb 1, 2001

FIFA's football family is fatally dysfunctional

Sepp Blatter, the head of soccer's world governing body FIFA, invariably refers to the world's soccer community as "the football family." Unfortunately, it's a terribly dysfunctional family.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Ishihara keeps Yokota return hopes alive

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, recently heard boasting of having personal connections to the newly empowered Republicans in Washington, appears energized toward achieving his campaign pledge of getting Yokota Air Base back from U.S. control.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 30, 2001

Tokyo Stadium opening to public

The brand-new 50,000-seat Tokyo Stadium in Chofu City will be open to the general public on Feb. 10-12 ahead of its curtain-raiser with a J. League season-opening game.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2001

Area's jewelers rode wave of fortune

While not as well-known as the Ameyoko shopping street to the north, Okachimachi Station's south side in Tokyo's Taito Ward has traditionally been the country's largest jewelry town.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jan 27, 2001

The art of appreciating ceramics

In pottery, as with life, sometimes the most basic questions are the most important: Why is this so? Or, how did this happen? Or, what does this part mean?
CULTURE / Music / MUSIC NOMAD
Jan 23, 2001

Artists with eclectic tastes dispute the 'healing' tag

Of all the nonsensical musical genres, perhaps the most irksome is one coined here in Japan: "healing" music.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Jan 21, 2001

A little home for poetry in Shinagawa

Keiyudoh is a book store specializing in rare art books, with a small gallery in the back. Currently the gallery features an exhibition of calligraphy by Sueo Akiyama, a self-taught artist, whose works have received cultural awards in Poland and France recently. Keiyudoh also publishes the journal Le...
CULTURE / Film
Jan 19, 2001

Pleasure, pain and Arizona

January is an absolutely dire month for films, and this year's lingering holiday blockbuster constipation is even worse than usual. The pickings are slim, but you could try "Phatman: Theory of the Leisure Class," which is a rare film indeed -- an American indie flick that is opening in Japan but not...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 18, 2001

Meet your future friend, Mr. Roboto

One of the formative experiences of my childhood was the New York World's Fair of 1962-63, where America's great and beneficent corporations introduced consumers to the future. The memory that sticks with me most is of Bell Telephone's "picture phone," which we were told would be widely in use by the...
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2001

Teen held in stabbing of older lover

URAWA, Saitama Pref. (Kyodo Saitama Prefectural Police arrested a high school student Tuesday for allegedly stabbing and wounding a 32-year-old housewife he had dated after getting acquainted on a Web site.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2001

U.S. time limit on base reiterated

Okinawa officials again urged the government Tuesday to abide by their call for a time limit on the U.S. forces' use of a new joint civilian-military airport to be built in northern Okinawa.
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2001

Hijacking suspect arrested

OSAKA -- A 20-year-old cook was arrested Saturday night after hijacking a Kyoto city bus carrying only a driver and another passenger, police said Sunday.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past