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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2002

Wireless LAN services untether Internet surfers on the go

With high-speed wireless Internet connection points springing up at retail businesses in Tokyo and other cities, Kazuhiko Sekimoto has become one of many a mobile Internet surfers.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2002

Hiroshima mayor's message: reconciliation, not retaliation

The following is the full text of Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba's peace declaration Tuesday at the memorial ceremony marking the 57th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city Aug. 6, 1945:
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 7, 2002

Sonic Youth: Murray Street

Jim O'Rourke is on a roll. First, post-rock's poster child released his best solo effort, "Insignificance," late last year, and now he's on two of the best albums of 2002. As well as having produced Wilco's breakthrough album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," O'Rourke has become producer for -- and a member of...
MORE SPORTS
Aug 4, 2002

Kawaguchi, Amaya to stay on with NFL teams

OSAKA -- Two Japanese football players participating in the American Bowl have taken a big step toward making their dreams come true.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 4, 2002

Shock of the new: modernism as a cultural force

TOPOGRAPHIES OF JAPANESE MODERNISM. By Seiji M. Lippit. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 301 pp., $22.50 (paper) Among the many results of the 19th-century "opening" of Japan to the West was a truly massive internalization of foreign culture, one which is now so advanced that concepts such...
EDITORIALS
Aug 3, 2002

Positive moves from Pyongyang

The good news about North Korea is that it is ready to resume diplomatic contacts with Japan and the United States. At the ASEAN Regional Forum in Brunei this week, Pyongyang's foreign minister, Mr. Paek Nam Sun, expressed a willingness to mend fences with Tokyo and Washington in talks with Foreign Minister...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 3, 2002

Keeping up with family weddings around world

Betty Glover from Perth, Australia, cannot walk too easily these days. This does not stop her from traveling however. Assisted by daughter Mo (Maureen) and son-in-law Deg (Derek), she is just coming to the end of a two-month trip to the U.K. and -- a bit of a surprise this one! -- Japan.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2002

Diet stood in the way of reform

The 192-day regular Diet session that ended on Wednesday will be remembered more for what it did not achieve than for what it did. In brief, it failed in two critical areas: political reform and economic revival. While politics bogged down in a quagmire of corruption, deflation dragged on, with no recovery...
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2002

Suzuki served fresh arrest warrant over bribery

Prosecutors served a fresh arrest warrant Thursday on lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on a second bribery charge.
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI BEAT
Aug 1, 2002

Time for Japan to face up to AIDS threat

KOBE -- For many Japanese, AIDS has long been regarded as someone else's problem.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 31, 2002

Modern Paintings of Mongolia: taking great steppes

Dividing his massive empire between his sons, Genghis Khan's grand legacy to the eldest was all the land from the Aral Sea westward "as far as the hooves of Mongol horses have reached."
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Motorists rebel against exorbitant expressway fares

Hidenori Wago used to get angry when faced with the exorbitant fees exacted at the nation's expressway tollgates. Now, he has a solution: Drive through, don't pay.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ARCHIPELA-GO
Jul 30, 2002

Going slow and easy in a land of plenty

In vino veritas. In wine there is truth. And in Hokkaido there is wine. Living in Hokkaido has its perks, and I set out recently seeking my truth on a long-weekend getaway with my family in central Hokkaido's wine region.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Subcontractor mystery clouds airport expansion

OSAKA -- The bulk of subcontract work for the second phase expansion of Kansai International Airport has been given to a group believed incapable of handling airport construction, according to documents on subcontracted work and sources familiar with the matter.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2002

Eco-law in works to push rail, sea freight transport over trucks

The transport ministry has begun deliberating a new law to cut carbon dioxide emissions from goods distributed by truck by supporting businesses that switch to rail and marine transport, ministry officials said.
COMMUNITY
Jul 27, 2002

Creating a museum as a sacred, powerful place

Asked what it is like to be a goddess, Hiroko Koyama laughs. Of course she's not really a goddess, she says, "but if some of our congregation believe me and my mother to be so blessed, well, there's not much we can do about it."
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2002

Mother held in daughter's strangulation, refrigeration

Police arrested a 49-year-old woman Thursday on suspicion of strangling her 14-year-old daughter at home in Tokyo and keeping the body in a closet and a refrigerator for two weeks.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jul 26, 2002

Breaking down people's mental barriers

Joannah Peterson was a bright, attractive, typical 14-year-old when the accident occurred. In the car with her were her older brother and a cousin. Both escaped with minor injuries, but for Peterson, the story was different.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2002

Move to slash foreign aid sparks strong opposition

A government advisory panel submitted to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday a final report on official development assistance policy criticizing the administration's moves to slash ODA spending under its reform drive.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 23, 2002

Two Crocodile Dundees find a wild world in South Africa

The reeds ripple. There is a throaty, menacing, hiss.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2002

Panel suggests 20% of ambassadors be nonministry staff

An advisory panel on Foreign Ministry reform on Monday called for appointing 20 percent of ambassadors from outside the ministry within three years to increase competition for overseas postings.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 23, 2002

Two Crocodile Dundees find a wild world in South Africa

The reeds ripple. There is a throaty, menacing, hiss.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 21, 2002

Take a dee . . . p breath

Umberto Pelizzari sits deep in meditation on the side of a boat, his legs dangling in the water, his hands clasped on his lap. He pulls a swim cap over his head and crosses himself.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 21, 2002

Flawed assumptions that courted disaster

PEACE, POWER AND RESISTANCE IN CAMBODIA: Global Governance and the Failure of InternationalConflict Resolution, by Pierre P. Lizee. Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 2000, 206 pp. (cloth) According to the famous dictum, war is the continuation of politics through other means. Is the reverse true? Is politics...
CULTURE / Music / HOGAKU TODAY
Jul 21, 2002

They're out there, they're really out there

When I was a student in the United States during the 1970s, a classmate of mine went to a record shop in a large city and asked if they had any Japanese music. The shopkeeper excitedly pulled out a brand-new album titled "Koto and Shakuhachi" and talked about how wonderful and exotic the music was. Since...
Global militaries to study India-Pakistan fighter jet battle
The Indian Air Force's Rafale fighter jets. India and Pakistan aircraft engaged in a dogfight on Wednesday.
Man admitted to 2025 Osaka Expo with 85-year-old ticket
The Osaka Expo, which opened last month, runs through mid-October.
In his first appearance, Pope Leo offers three big clues about his papacy
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States, appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday.
Pakistan hails role of Chinese jets in repelling India strikes
A J-10C fighter jet
Suspect in Tokyo Metro stabbing chose station to highlight ‘educational abuse’
Yoshitaka Toda is escorted out of a police station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Friday to be sent to prosecutors.
Who could become Japan's next prime minister?
Clockwise from top left: Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi
With a new Shibuya studio, Apple Music bets big on Japan
Apple Music personalities (from left) Ebro Darden, Kentaro Ochiai, Zane Lowe and Mino came together for a special recording in late April to discuss music and celebrate the newly opened Apple Music studio in Tokyo.
Kazuki Nagasawa's sustainable designs are rooted in tradition
For centuries, artisans have unraveled strands of the fibrous bark of "shuro" trees to create a medley of everyday objects. Designer Kazuki Nagasawa is now transforming the traditional material into ethereal contemporary pieces.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 expands to become one of Asia's largest startup events
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 was bustling with participants of various nationalities Thursday, and multiple languages could be heard around the room as many engaged in conversations throughout the day.
Celebrating Japan’s defeat at Shimoda’s Black Ships Festival
Tatsumi Onose (right), who plays the part of Commodore Matthew Perry in Shimoda's Black Ship Festival, says the historical episode the event is based on should be remembered for its positives more than its negatives.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
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