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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 18, 2008

Rei Harakami and Kahimi Karie

During the 3rd-anniversary events at Liquidroom in Ebisu, Tokyo last August, Rei Harakami played with jazz-pop vocalist and pianist Akiko Yano in their group Yanokami. This August, the idiosyncratic, Kyoto-based electronic musician plays with multilingual singer Kahimi Karie at the same venue.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 18, 2008

30th Pia Film Festival opens

The 30th Pia Film Festival, Japan's largest and most influential independent movie event, kicks off July 19 in Shibuya, Tokyo, showcasing works by amateurs who could be the next greats of the film industry.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2008

Redress again doled out over Yokota base noise

The Tokyo High Court ordered the government Thursday to pay about ¥194 million in compensation to 210 people who suffered from noise pollution generated at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 18, 2008

India's pioneering DJ Pearl goes global

Since the worldwide dance-music explosion hit its peak in the late 1990s, the market for clubbing has been saturated. From Tokyo to New York to Ibiza, the "superclubs" are established, the fan base for the music is pretty much stagnant and everyone is looking for the next place that will experience a...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 18, 2008

Summer yet? Beaches open around Kanto

In the West, the only time you're likely to see a "closed" sign on a beach is if there's a shark about or sea conditions resemble the inside of a washing machine. Either way, it is the desire for self-preservation — rather than for law and order — that sees swimmers dutifully heed the restriction....
COMMENTARY
Jul 18, 2008

Cliches won't rescue Earth

LONDON — The recent Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido was one of the least memorable summit meetings. Every G8 spews out cliches; the Hokkaido meeting was no exception. Leaders at the meeting were generally a mediocre lot.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 18, 2008

Pop Levi goes slightly wrong

"It was a very obsessive thing," says Jonathan Pop Levi about the recording of his new album of warped pop music, "Never Never Love." "It took six days a week for 12 hours a day for four months to get it to sound that way. Especially in the vocals; if a computer could do a perfect impression of a human,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 18, 2008

The photographer who snaps it as it is

In his teens, photographer Edward Burtynsky worked in the factory of General Motors in his native Ontario. The experience gave him a taste for "seeing large things in a big perspective," as he describes it. He built his career on stark, amazingly beautiful images of the effects of industry on the environment...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 18, 2008

Unagi Akimoto: Tradition beats the summer heat

Squeezed in between towering modern neighbors, Akimoto's traditional low-rise architecture is so self-effacing you barely notice it. From the tiled eaves to the wood-slatted second-floor windows and the sliding door set back from the street, all is inscrutable.
COMMENTARY
Jul 17, 2008

New world order is long overdue

George Herbert Walker Bush, when he was president of the United States, used to talk a lot about a "new world order" emerging after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Seventeen years later, that new order is still not in place as the countries that dominated the old order refuse to make way for...
SOCCER / J. League
Jul 17, 2008

FC Tokyo keeps Gamba out of first-place tie

FC Tokyo denied Gamba Osaka the chance to go level on points with J. League leaders Kashima Antlers with a battling 1-1 draw on Wednesday night.
COMMENTARY
Jul 17, 2008

Let's hope it's over soon

The world is now in the grip of a first-class financial crisis. Some will be hit harder than others, but no one is going to escape. Final confirmation of this has arrived with the news that the two giant mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, pillars of American life that underwrite, or insure,...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 17, 2008

Anti-Chavez axis emerging in Latin America

BRUSSELS — The rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages who had been held for years by FARC guerrillas marks more than a turning point in Colombia's long war against its drug-running, Marxist guerrillas. It also confirms the emergence of a new troika of Latin American leaders — Colombia's...
SOCCER
Jul 17, 2008

AC Milan completes deal for Ronaldinho

MILAN, Italy (AP) Ronaldinho was transferred to AC Milan late Tuesday, leaving FC Barcelona after the club's new coach declared the team would plan for next season without the Brazilian playmaker.
BUSINESS
Jul 17, 2008

Toyota buys land in Brazil for plant, studies plans to build compacts

Toyota Motor Corp. is acquiring land in Brazil for a new factory and is studying plans to build compact vehicles there in 2011 or later — the latest move in the aggressive drive by automakers in emerging markets.
Reader Mail
Jul 17, 2008

Rice flour to rescue ramen?

I read with great interest the July 13 editorial "The price of ramen," because I've been working on an article on ramen in America. Undoubtedly, rising prices for this convenient foodstuff will be a challenging problem for some time.
Reader Mail
Jul 17, 2008

Leadoff street view seems lame

Regarding Debito Arudou's July 8 Zeit Gist article, "Beware the foreigner as guinea pig": I couldn't help but notice the curious order in which opinions about the article were placed in Views From the Street (at the bottom of the page). The first opinion not only is a biased and bigoted viewpoint of...
EDITORIALS
Jul 17, 2008

Fishermen fed up

The one-day stoppage of fishing operations on Tuesday proves that current high oil prices are acutely affecting economic activities. Most of Japan's 200,000 fishing boats took part in the fishermen's strike throughout the country, the first and largest of its kind.
Reader Mail
Jul 17, 2008

Three days in the Hakodate jail

The unsuccessful Group of Eight summit is over and no definite agreements were announced, but at least the Hakodate police were successful -- in arresting me, a 32-year-old German tourist. A week before the G8 summit I traveled with my wife, a Japanese national, by motorbike from Kyushu to Hokkaido....

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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped