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CULTURE / Stage
Feb 19, 2014

NNTT debut peers behind the masks of 'Condemned' Sartre family

Until Japan was opened to the West in the mid-19th century, its theater culture mainly comprised traditional forms such as kabuki, comic kyōgen, bunraku (puppet theater) and noh.
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 18, 2014

Vegan metalheads go to the Extreme

A little-known part of the music scene will be celebrated next week at Tokyo's Asakusa Kurawood venue, far from the candy-pop quirk of Harajuku. Obscene Extreme Festival (OEF) promises to be confrontational and dark and — yes, the capital letters are insisted upon — "UNLEASH HELL."
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 18, 2014

Fukushima kids compose for Philharmonic

The Sony Music Foundation took the opportunity of the New York Philharmonic's current Asia tour to organize a special event on Feb. 11. The concert aimed to provide Japanese youth — some of whom were from Fukushima Prefecture — with first-class live performances by a top-rate orchestra.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 18, 2014

Freud's hysteria theory backed by brain scans

Sigmund Freud may have been right about repressed memories causing hysteria.
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JAPAN / EMBASSY AVENUE
Feb 18, 2014

Charity from Japan for Syrian refugees

The Society of Wives of Arab Ambassadors in Japan organized a charity event to gather humanitarian donations to be sent to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan in order to help alleviate the pain and suffering of the refugees.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 17, 2014

Games organizing committee clock is ticking

With the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics up and running, preparations for the mega-project have commenced. The main hurdles it faces are how to amass the vast sums of money needed to stage the games and the personnel needed to run them. There is also the task of maintaining...
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 17, 2014

Filipino academic community in Japan unites to aid typhoon-hit homeland

Reggy Figer saw the news. A rapidly intensifying typhoon was heading towards his family in Tacloban. Concerned and nearly 3,000 km away in Nagoya, Figer sent a text message to his sister, Aileen Rose Figer-Peru, asking her to go to his parents' home.
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OLYMPICS / ICE TIME
Feb 16, 2014

Canada's Chan dignified in defeat

Canada's Patrick Chan held a press conference on Saturday, the day after settling for the silver medal behind Yuzuru Hanyu.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 15, 2014

Tokyo firebombing and unfinished U.S. business

Last week in this column, I suggested that Caroline Kennedy, the American ambassador to Japan, would be well advised to get the ball rolling on U.S. apologies for past misdeeds.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2014

Sure winners in 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Gangsters

As Japan bets on a big economic boost from the 2020 Olympics, it might be dismayed by what's happening right now in Russia. Moody's doubts the Sochi Games will be much of a plus for that economy.
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OLYMPICS / NOTES ON A SCORECARD
Feb 13, 2014

An inside look at the first week in Sochi

Some thoughts and observations after a week at the Winter Olympic Games:
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 13, 2014

Japanese internment set for short shrift in class

Don't count on the controversial internment of loyal Japanese Americans during World War II to receive full coverage in future American high school history classes.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 13, 2014

Feed desire with our seductive Valentine's pairings

When I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley, I taught a class called Female Sexuality with some of my fellow schoolmates (yes, everything you've heard about Berkeley is true). As my work with food and drinks seldom crosses into the realm of sex education, few people know this about...
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 13, 2014

Stay and enjoy Tokyo Skytree, French fair at the Imperial hotel, Baseball ticket plan

Stay and enjoy Tokyo Skytree The Asakusa View Hotel is offering an accommodation package that comes with a ticket for the Tokyo Skytree observation deck.
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 13, 2014

Making sense of cultural nonsense

In today's complicated world of mass media and communication, contemporary British artists are finding new means of expression.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 12, 2014

Yokohama holds a giant tea party

Learn about Japan's most commonly drunk beverage; try out different varieties of tea leaves; and learn to blend your own flavors.
EDITORIALS
Feb 12, 2014

Abe's Russia initiative

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should realize that his revisionist perception of Japan's war in the 1930s and '40s is putting Japan in a weak position diplomatically, especially with regard to its negotiations with Russia to resolve a northern territorial issue.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 12, 2014

Accused hacker: 'I'm innocent'

The man accused of hacking other people's computers to make a series of violent threats in 2012 maintains his “absolute innocence” as his trial opens at the Tokyo District Court.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Feb 11, 2014

All-female wine award targets girls of the grape

Before the tasting commenced at the inaugural Sakura Japan Women's Wine Awards in Tokyo, the judges were reminded to remove their lipstick. The competition, organized by the Wine and Spirits Culture Association (WSCA), is the first in Japan to feature an all-female panel of assessors. Over the course...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 11, 2014

Toyota plant closures put paid to Aussie industry

Toyota Motor Corp. will stop building cars in Australia in 2017, spelling the end of the local industry after Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. announced last year they also plan to pull out.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 11, 2014

Takanashi in good spirits ahead of Olympic women's ski jumping competition

Sara Takanashi goes through another training session late Monday on the normal hill at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Centre and says she's in top form ahead of Tuesday night's event.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2014

Mexico's reformer Pena Nieto can't quit Castro

It isn't clear what Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto gains by ignoring the reality that Cuba has no elections, no political parties, no free press or freedom of expression, and that dissidents are harassed and jailed.
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WORLD
Feb 9, 2014

In Sochi, a backlash against the backlash emerges

As the sport got under way in earnest in Sochi on Friday, and the first medals were won, the tide of public opinion in Russia and the world began to turn, slowly.
OLYMPICS
Feb 9, 2014

Takanashi enjoying Olympic experience in Sochi

Ski jumper Sara Takanashi was upbeat following her first official training session at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Centre on Saturday.

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