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Nov 9, 2003

KANSAI : Who & What

Kagawa woos tourists with discounts, gifts: Every tourist who visits sightseeing spots or hotels in Kagawa Prefecture after crossing the Seto Ohashi Bridge through March 31, 2004, will receive a discount, a package of "udon" noodles or other incentives.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 9, 2003

In with le new!

It's Beaujolais Nouveau time again, and Japan -- despite its piffling per capita consumption of just three bottles of wine a year -- will suddenly become a nation of tipplers and quaffers (if not connoisseurs) of this fresh-from-the-vine red wine from France.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2003

Woman who fled to North Korea was government mole in Aum

The saga of a woman believed to be an ex-Aum Shinrikyo member who entered North Korea in August seeking asylum has taken another turn: she at one time spied on the cult for the government.
COMMENTARY
Nov 1, 2003

U.S., Europe make amends

PARIS -- It was widely assumed, a few months ago, that three of the world's top international organizations -- the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union -- would suffer heavily from the quarrel over the Iraqi war between the U.S.-led coalition and those nations...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 26, 2003

Revealing more to life and death

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF YUKIO MISHIMA, by Henry Scott Stokes. Tuttle Publishing, 2003, 271 pp., $16.95, (cloth). One afternoon in the late 1960s, Henry Scott Stokes received a visit at the Tokyo office of the London Times from the writer Yukio Mishima, who declared to the startled young journalist, "You...
COMMUNITY
Oct 25, 2003

Palette mixes people of every color and capacity

Naoko Taniguchi is a pioneer in bringing mentally handicapped individuals into the community. Thirty years ago, when she began volunteer activities, families still regarded the disabled as a source of shame. She says the situation is improving, "though there will be no major shift until companies hire...
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2003

Fujii to spill the beans at Ishihara's OK

If he can get land minister Nobuteru Ishihara's permission, Japan Highway Public Corp. President Haruho Fujii is ready to reveal what went on behind closed doors when he was at the former Construction Ministry.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Oct 23, 2003

Bush backers open their purses

WASHINGTON -- It has stopped! U.S. President George W. Bush's men have determined that his slide has ended. The latest round of polling has him in the mid to low 50s.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2003

Empress admits fears over Emperor's prostate surgery

Empress Michiko, on the occasion of her 69th birthday Monday, confessed that she was worried when Emperor Akihito underwent surgery to remove his cancerous prostate in January.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 19, 2003

Out of the ordinary

SELECTED POEMS 1976-2001, by Peter Robinson. Manchester, Britain: Carcanet, 2003, 139 pp., £8.95 (paper). NO VISION WILL TELL: 100 Selected Poems 1992-2002, by Scott Watson. Sendai, Japan: Bookgirl Press, 2002, 123 pp., 1,500 yen (paper). Both of the poets reviewed here, one British and the other American,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2003

Gifu gives Big Apple taste of local legend

If you mention the name Furuta Oribe, most Japanese will probably give you a blank stare.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 18, 2003

David Elliott

The Mori Art Museum, an integral part of the Mori Arts Center, occupies space on the top five floors of the 53-story Roppongi Hills Tower, Tokyo. The Mori aim is to have the new Mori Art Museum "become a major feature in the cultural landscapes of Tokyo, Japan, Asia and the world." Over the last 18 months,...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2003

Rotary meet to eye poverty, health

OSAKA -- Poverty and public health issues will be tackled during the International Rotary Convention here in May, the head of Rotary International said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 12, 2003

Young Japanese silently reject salaryman lifestyle

Government facilities are depressing places, but none are as depressing as your neighborhood unemployment office. That's why, in Japan, unemployment offices have been given the cheery, infantilized name "Hello Work," a term that conjures up visions of company presidents waiting at the entrance with job...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 12, 2003

His finger on the pulse of life on Earth

The Philip Glass Ensemble has been performing the music to the film "Koyaanisqatsi," live with screenings of the film, since the year after the film's release in 1982. This was later complemented by the performance of music from the film's 1987 followup "Powaqqatsi." So far, these cinema concerts have...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2003

Bali summit moves ASEAN toward sense of community

SINGAPORE -- At the Ninth ASEAN Summit in Bali, Indonesia, this week, the 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed the Bali Concord II, an action plan aimed at realizing a more integrated ASEAN in terms of economy, culture and security.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 8, 2003

Where to catch the action in and around Tokyo

If you expect to be one of the hundreds of millions of people planning to sacrifice your health, finances, time and possibly marriage to watch a bunch of thugs chase an oval ball around the park while at the same time inflicting grievous bodily harm on each other, under the pretense of a tournament commonly...
COMMENTARY
Oct 8, 2003

Blair style reassures nonunion masses

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair strides onto the platform, shirt and skin softly gleaming, his gait erect, his manner proud, determined, with a measure of sorrow and a tinge of repentance; his appearance is heart-winningly boyish with his large blue eyes and easy smile, but now there is an...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Oct 2, 2003

"The House of Windjammer," "Boolar's Big Day Out"

"The House of Windjammer," V.A. Richardson, Bloomsbury; 2003; 349 pp. No matter where you grow up, whether it's in 21st-century Japan or in 17th-century Europe, some things never change. People everywhere, at every time, are at the mercy of larger forces -- political upheavals, market fluctuations,...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2003

Currency interventions prove to be both fruitless and costly

GUATEMALA CITY -- The weakening of the U.S. dollar accelerated after finance ministers from the Group of Seven issued a communique calling for market-oriented international exchange rates. Soon afterward, the Japanese yen set a two-year high against the American currency.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2003

Childhood experiences key to protecting nature

Childhood experiences of nature hold the key to raising the public's environmental awareness, according to a top official at a public institution for environmental education in Germany.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 30, 2003

Should foreigners be allowed to participate in national sporting events?

Nick KwanAccountant, 28 Sport is based on skill and competition, not race. It should be an international forum where people of all races can compete together. If you want to be homogenous and one-eyed, then you won't improve.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2003

Peruvians divided over Fujimori

OSAKA -- With Japan facing mounting international pressure to extradite disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, the nation's Peruvian community is divided on the matter.
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2003

Problems with Mr. Grasso's pay

In business, as in politics, there is a simple rule for evaluating decisions: How will it look when it is in the headlines? By that standard, the uproar surrounding revelations that Mr. Richard Grasso, the former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, was awarded compensation of $139.5 million tells...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Peacenik taps art world to parody war

Tetsuya Ozaki is trying to wage peace in a unique theater of war -- the theater of the absurd.

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