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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2007

Will the dollar lose its crown to the euro?

NEW YORK — Much of America's dominance in world finance comes from the dollar's status as international money. America's commitment to free capital markets, the rule of law, and price stability confer credibility on the dollar as a store of value. But American spending habits have undermined the dollar's...
Reader Mail
Jul 4, 2007

Australians and their whales

Every year the people of Japan look forward to the flowering of cherry blossoms. Parties are held as people flock to view this glorious natural event. Their spirits are lifted and they gain a deeper appreciation of the world in which they live.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 3, 2007

Eight-year ordeal nears end for Kurdish family

Visitors to the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau can't miss a giant banner strung over the main hall of Shinagawa JR Station. Sponsored by the bureau, the sign implores those who pass under it to obey the rules as Japan globalizes. In the household of Erdal Dogan, it provokes hollow laughs.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jul 1, 2007

Kotaro Sawaki: Writer on the road of life

Kotaro Sawaki is one of the most popular nonfiction writers in Japan. He made his name with "Shinya Tokkyu (Midnight Express)," a reportage of a yearlong overland trip through Asia and Europe he took when he was in his mid-20s. Those stories — whose title refers to a euphemism for "prison break" used...
MORE SPORTS
Jun 30, 2007

WWE hysteria all McMahon's doing

NEW YORK — Hucksters make their living ahead of the curve, or at the very least, by selling that illusion.
COMMENTARY
Jun 29, 2007

Chief executive who serves two masters

This is the first in a series of columns on the political and economic status of Hong Kong. On Sunday, the former British crown colony will mark its 10th anniversary as a special province of China.
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2007

Windsor Hotel prepares for second wind

The Windsor Hotel Toya in western Hokkaido has a lot of things going for it.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 22, 2007

Rimbaud revelry

Who ever would've thought a nightclub event would take a page out of a classic literary masterpiece?
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Jun 22, 2007

Duck Rock rides a new club wave

In the late 1970s, a club called Tsubaki House opened on the fifth floor of an office building on the southwest corner of Yasukuni and Meiji streets in Shinjuku. At a time when disco was still the rage, Tsubaki House was one of the few venues in Tokyo doing something different.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 21, 2007

Soundtrack of the summer: Seiji Ozawa

Under the baton of Seiji Ozawa, some of Japan's top classical musicians gather each year for roughly a month of opera and orchestral concerts. The Saito Kinen Festival showcases an opera, usually something a little offbeat, and this year it's Tchaikovsky's "Pikovaya Dama" ("The Queen of Spades"), based...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 21, 2007

Japanese look to international market

BASEL, Switzerland — Each June, the Swiss city of Basel gives itself over to Art Basel, the world's biggest and most influential contemporary art fair, where established galleries make deals with some of the biggest spenders in the global market.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 21, 2007

Soundtrack of the summer: Bi Kidude

The rich cultural history of Africa's spice islands comes to life in the gravelly, deep-throated singing of Bi Kidude. Now in her 90s (her exact age is unknown), Kidude is considered the embodiment of Zanzibari Tarab singing, a genre drawing on African, Middle Eastern and Indian sources with distinct...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 17, 2007

Romantic drama-comedy, travel food show and celebrity concert music special

The strong-willed wife is an archetype in almost every culture and it gets the comedy treatment in Fuji TV's series "Oni Yome Nikki (Diary of a Demon Bride)" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), which is based on a popular manga. Arisa Kanzuki plays the title character, Sanae, whose lazy and negligent husband, Kazuma...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 15, 2007

A year to remember in pictures

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then everyone who visits the World Press Photo Contest's traveling exhibition will have plenty to digest. That's because the WPPC, which runs at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from June 16-Aug. 5, features the best photojournalism of 2006 from lensmen...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 15, 2007

Take a psychedelic trip in Shibuya

Twenty hours of multisensory stimulation featuring art installations, contemporary dance and more would tweak the mind of just about any alternative-art aficionado. For the second time, the Tokyo-based Canadian duo of promoter Josh Child and longtime yoga practitioner Patrick Oancia have joined forces...
SOCCER
Jun 14, 2007

Reds face uphill climb in quarters

Urawa Reds have been handed a tough quarterfinal draw in the AFC Champions League against defending champions Chonbuk Motors of South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2007

Adventurer forges bond with nature, poet Basho

Adventurer Mitsuro Oba discovered a different kind of unexplored terrain last summer, a decade after he trekked across Antarctica and became the first person in history to walk unaccompanied to both the North and South poles.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past