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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 18, 2008

Ai-chan fights it out in Tokyo

The latest world rankings in women's table tennis, announced Jan. 5 by the International Table Tennis Federation, placed local hero Ai Fukuhara, aka Ai-chan, at No. 10 for the third straight month. That's enough for her to automatically qualify for the Beijing Olympics, where she'll be up against some...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 18, 2008

Chinese New Year, Strawberry tea sets and Orca wine

Lunar New Year celebration To celebrate the Chinese New Year on Feb. 7, the Hilton Tokyo's Dynasty restaurant is preparing special lunch and dinner menus from Feb. 5 to 8.
CULTURE / Music
Jan 18, 2008

Boredoms "Live at Sun Flancisco"

Boredoms (or V ∞ redoms, as they're confusingly billed in their home country) preside over a haphazard patchwork of a discography. For every official album, there's a slew of EPs, remixes and side projects, chronicling in detail the Osaka group's evolution from schizoid noise punks to ecstatic tribal-drum...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 18, 2008

The hotel of eternal youth

It was reportedly good enough for Elizabeth Taylor. It kept Chairman Mao forever young (until he died). And Charlie Chaplin went straight to the source — a clinic in Bucharest — for it.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 18, 2008

'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'

On many other actors Victorian period costumes would look like, well, costumes, but on Johnny Depp, they cover his physique like a second skin — merging with his persona as if he had a spent his life wearing lace cuffs and with his feet, encased in heavy boots, treading on nothing but mud and cobblestones....
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 18, 2008

Quilters keep the Tokyo Dome all sewn up

Here's an event that's ripe for a bit of blanket coverage — The Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2008. At the annual event — subtitled "Fabric, Needles and Thread Exhibition" — hundreds of quilts from Japan and overseas will be exhibited.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jan 18, 2008

28 Weeks Later

Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 18, 2008

Brewing sake amid a cacophony of miracles

Being a 41-year-old male puts me at the end of my yakudoshi, a period when Japanese believe all kinds of calamity are due to befall me and mine. Running to form, a family crisis meant I had to fly home to Britain on Dec. 23. I was back at work before the new year, but these few days off were still more...
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jan 18, 2008

Nikkei plunge may continue if foreign investors flee market

Market participants voiced concern Thursday that the Nikkei stock average may fall below the 13,000 line as foreign investors flee the Japanese market and shift their cash to more attractive emerging economies instead.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2008

Upcoming Diet session figures to be a stormy one for Fukuda

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda appears fated to face some challenging times ahead as the 150-day ordinary Diet session opens Friday, only three days after an extraordinary session drew to a close.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 18, 2008

Tchaikovsky medalists tour Japan

Winning instrumentalists in the 2007 International Tchaikovsky Competition will tour Japan from Jan. 23-30. The gala concert brings together the three gold medalists and two silver medalists from last June's 13th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, including Japanese violinist Mayuko Kamio....
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2008

Matsushita, Daikin mull parts deal

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Daikin Industries Ltd., Japan's two largest makers of household air conditioners, plan to expand a parts-sharing alliance by jointly developing the components to cut costs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 18, 2008

Depp: "If you ate me I would taste of deep-fried frog's legs"

Despite the gore depicted in trailers aired on screens, the atmosphere was nothing short of festive as director Tim Burton, actor Johnny Depp and producer Richard Zanuck entered the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo's Roppongi district last week to promote "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of...
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2008

ANA, JAL mull compensation for 787 delay

All Nippon Airways Co., scheduled to be the first recipient of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and Japan Airlines Corp. may seek compensation from the U.S. plane maker after a second delay in the aircraft's delivery.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 18, 2008

Apache winning with balanced scoring

With 2 1/2 months of games already in the books, there are some new faces among the bj-league leaders.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2008

Seven Bank, Shinsei in ATM deal

Seven Bank Ltd., the financial arm of Seven & I Holdings Co., will install its own automated teller machines at Shinsei Bank Ltd.'s ATM corners as part of an agreement between the two to improve customer service and raise efficiency.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 18, 2008

Hallelujah: The fiery flavor of Korean winter

A fter all the holiday feasting, the boozing and carousing, it comes as no little relief to get back to basics. Warming sustenance is what we crave in this coldest of seasons. And few things are more comforting, to body and spirit alike, than the hearty home cooking of the Korean Peninsula.
BASKETBALL
Jan 17, 2008

Japan shoots for Olympic berth

The Japan women's basketball team is one of 12 nations that will vie for a spot in the 2008 Summer Olympics at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women from June 9 to June 15 in Madrid. Japan, coached by Tomohide Utsumi, was placed in Group A, along with Latvia and Senegal. Group B is comprised...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2008

Hypocrisy weakens West's whaling protests

PRINCETON, New Jersey — Thirty years ago, Australian vessels, with the government's blessing, killed sperm whales off the West Australian coast. Last month, Australia led international protests against Japan's plan to kill 50 humpback whales. Japan, under mounting pressure, announced that it would...
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2008

Ozawa stakes career on Lower House contest

Opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa said Wednesday the next Lower House election will be the "final battle" of his political career and for the Democratic Party of Japan itself.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2008

Sea Shepherd 'hostages' pawns, pirates?

Japan's whaling fleet halted its Antarctic operations Wednesday and scrambled to arrange the turnover of two activists who boarded one of its harpoon ships after a tense, high-seas chase, accusing the Sea Shepherd conservation group of piracy.

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