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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 25, 2008

La Folle Journee au Japon 2008

Musical zing is coming to Tokyo International Forum and the city's Marunouchi district next week when the La Folle Journee (Days of Enthusiasm) festival presents its fourth annual classical-music spectacular, here titled La Folle Journee au Japon.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 25, 2008

It's hands-on in Kyoto

The standard visit to Kyoto is a test of endurance: you stay until you are sick of temples. This comes as a shock to first-time visitors, for while the city is rich in beautiful tourist spots, a true understanding of the nation's cultural heartland remains as elusive as a maiko (apprentice geisha) scurrying...
CULTURE / Music
Apr 25, 2008

Portishead "Third"

Portishead's "Dummy" was one of the defining albums of the 1990s — and one of its most ubiquitous. The band's producer, Geoff Barrow, made little attempt to conceal his disgust when the record was reduced to providing a soundtrack to fashionable dinner parties and coffee shops throughout the Western...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 25, 2008

Fancy French restaurant L'auberge De L'ill comes to Tokyo

Saying it with flowers The La Tour D'Argent French restaurant at the Hotel New Otani Tokyo will mark the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and France with a special lunch course and afternoon tea from April 29 to May 6.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 25, 2008

Watanabe pushes U.S. to fix credit crisis

Likening the U.S. credit crisis to a broken bathtub leaking water, financial services minister Yoshimi Watanabe is urging Washington to inject public money to fix the problem before it gets worse.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 25, 2008

Sky Deck: Take in all of Tokyo

Tokyo's Roppongi Hills is taking the concept of the observation deck to a new level: the roof. As of Saturday, the open-air Sky Deck will be inaugurated atop the 52-story Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. At 238 meters above ground level, and 270 meters above sea level, it will be the highest open-air facility...
BUSINESS
Apr 25, 2008

Canon to cut profit, sales forecasts

Canon Inc. said Thursday that it will reduce its full-year profit and sales predictions because a stronger yen has eroded the value of its exports.
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2008

NGOs rip Japan for lack of G8 leadership

KYOTO — NGO representatives clashed with officials from the Group of Eight countries at a meeting here Thursday, charging that this year's summit could be a major step backward for climate change, development and aid to Africa due to poor leadership on the part of Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Apr 25, 2008

"Next"

Director: Lee Tamahori
BUSINESS
Apr 25, 2008

Japan to call on WTO to outlaw food-export curbs

As the world's biggest net food importer, Japan will ask the World Trade Organization as early as next week to introduce rules to prevent countries from restricting exports of wheat, rice and other grains, according to the agriculture ministry.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 24, 2008

Kitajima eager for challenge

Kosuke Kitajima prepares for this summer's Beijing Olympics as the reigning Olympic champion in the men's 100- and 200-meter breaststroke races. But instead of considering himself the king of the hill, he will stand on the starting block with the mind-set of a challenger.
Reader Mail
Apr 24, 2008

Cutting U.S. service-member crime

Your April 9 editorial "Murder in Yokosuka" is very appropriate and timely. Criminal cases involving American soldiers are becoming far too numerous for comfort and there is a need to work out new arrangements so that such criminals are treated as such, and are not given any special privileges by virtue...
Reader Mail
Apr 24, 2008

Good reason for over-narration

Regarding the April 13 article "Media Mix" by Philip Brasor: The simple reason why some NHK programs are over-narrated is so that the visually impaired can follow the action of what is happening. I hope this clears the matter up as I have seen this comment made in other newspapers. terence o'brien
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2008

Japan vows to build 1,000 new schools in Africa

Japan pledged Wednesday to provide aid to finance construction of 1,000 new schools in Africa with a total of 5,500 classrooms over the next five years, setting a key numerical target ahead of planned major international conferences later this year.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 24, 2008

Suns' mental gaffes inexcusable

NEW YORK — What better time to dramatize then after the first games of the first series of an inexorable playoff season? Beginning with the Spurs-Suns showdown. . .
COMMENTARY
Apr 24, 2008

Now it's food versus fuel

What is the next great global problem we have to fear? The answer is not climate change and global warming, but food shortage and starvation. Suddenly, and in ways largely unforeseen by experts, a serious shortage of food supplies, especially corn and rice, has crept up on the world. The result has been...
Reader Mail
Apr 24, 2008

Release 'Yasukuni' overseas

Regarding the decision by some cinemas not to screen Chinese director Li Ying's documentary "Yasukuni," it seems that once again Japanese conservatives have exerted their strict control over political expression and the right to free speech. The movie's producers should submit "Yasukuni" to all the...
Reader Mail
Apr 24, 2008

CPR article could save lives

According to the April 2 article "Skip mouth-to-mouth: CPR ruled just as good with hands only," the American Heart Association has announced that simple uninterrupted chest presses at the rate of 100 times a minute could save a life in a case of a sudden cardiac arrest in adults. Evidently, in contrast...

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