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BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2008

Rice cookers go upscale to bring male retirees traditional flavor

For the average Japanese, no day starts out right without a bowl of steaming, glistening white rice.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2008

Scientists hope frozen mammoth will shed light on climate change

The frozen carcass of a 37,500-year-old baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction — and shed light on the history of global climate change, scientists said Friday.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 5, 2008

89ers, Evessa still on top

New Year's Day is history. The year is still quite new, though, and 2008 leaves us with the same story from last year: The Sendai 89ers and Osaka Evessa are still in first place in their respective divisions.
EDITORIALS
Jan 5, 2008

'Blanket' hepatitis C relief

The ruling parties and the sufferers of hepatitis C infection via tainted blood products who have filed damages lawsuits have reached agreement on "blanket" government relief for them and other hepatitis C infection victims. This is welcome. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's decision to "achieve a breakthrough"...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 5, 2008

Give the rats among us their due

Let's start by calling a rat a rat. And not a mouse.
SOCCER
Jan 4, 2008

Hitzfield leaving Bayern Munich

MUNICH (AP) Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld said Wednesday he will leave the club at the end of the season. The 58-year-old coach, one of two men to win European Cup titles with different clubs, ended weeks of speculation about his future after he was stung by public criticism from Bayern's management...
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2008

A delicious mix of technology and sweets

Futuristic technology has come to sweets.
EDITORIALS
Jan 4, 2008

Few dare call it 'coercion'

The dispute over the screening of high school history textbooks to be used from April has come down to whether the Imperial Japanese armed forces used "coercion" in the mass suicides of local residents during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. During the process of the first screening, whose results were...
COMMENTARY
Jan 4, 2008

Global 'war' waged in vain

LONDON — The tragic killing of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan has sent a raft of shock-wave messages round the world. Most of these have been carefully and lengthily noted and analyzed — such as the concern that Pakistan, labeled a frontline state in the fight against terrorism, could now collapse into...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 4, 2008

'Hokushin Naname ni Sasu Tokoro'

The old school tie is strong for many Japanese, especially members of the dwindling prewar generation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 4, 2008

A director's defense

Francois Girard, the Canadian filmmaker who brought to the screen such quirky masterpieces as "Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" and "The Red Violin," changes his style and goes all out in the grandiose "Silk." His first feature project in 10 years, "Silk" is based on an Italian novel that explores...
CULTURE / Music
Jan 4, 2008

Linda Thompson "Versatile Heart"

When she and Richard Thompson were setting the standard for English folk rock in the 1970s, Linda Thompson was burdened with interpreting her husband's songs of "doom and gloom." Twenty-five years after their divorce, and two albums into a late comeback, Linda finally seems to be lightening up, at least...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Jan 4, 2008

Where ambitions have long soared

First of two parts
Japan Times
JAPAN / THIS FOREIGN LAND
Jan 4, 2008

The doctor will see the moneyed and insured, but less fortunate also ail

Third in a series
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 4, 2008

Top tango couples dance into a city near you

The world's top tango dancers will put on a spectacular show throughout Japan in Tango Dance Premium from Jan. 20-Mar. 31. With no fewer than 55 performances at 45 venues, the five winning couples of the annual Tango Dance World Championship will indulge audiences across the country with a rare opportunity...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 4, 2008

John Pizzarelli

New Jersey's John Pizzarelli is the complete package, not to mention a chip off the old block.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 4, 2008

'Silk'

It took a long time for me to recover from the blast of bullsh*t Orientalism that was "Memoirs of a Geisha." There were the usual symptoms: nausea, shaky hands and an attack of shudders every time I passed by the Oriental Bazaar on Tokyo's Omotesando avenue, among others.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jan 4, 2008

Home of the Brave

Director: Irwin Winkler
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2008

Waseda grad school to groom true newshounds

There is no doubt that Japan has produced its share of top-notch journalists: noted political writer Takashi Tachibana, war photographer Ryuichi Hirokawa and videographer Kenji Nagai, who was shot dead in September while reporting close up on the unrest in Myanmar, to cite but a few.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jan 4, 2008

Real, Barca survive lower-division scare

MADRID (AP) Real Madrid needed an injury time goal from Jose Maria "Guti" Gutierrez to beat Alicante 2-1 on Wednesday, and send it to the fifth round of the Copa del Rey.

Longform

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