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COMMUNITY
Nov 3, 2007

Winning salsa moves to a Cuban beat

For Japanese women — any woman for that matter — Richard D. Cabrera is a sight for sore eyes. Here in Japan especially he would appear to have all the requisite credentials that make girls swoon: kakkoii (trendy or cool), kanemochi (wealthy), and kashikoi (smart).
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2007

A blow to the budding India-U.S. alliance

LONDON — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's response made perfectly good sense. If his allies in Parliament were willing to bring the government down to block the nuclear deal with the United States that he had spent two years negotiating, he would drop the deal. "One has to live with certain disappointments,"...
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2007

Gaba takes on students in lurch; EF woos staff

Gaba Corp., a Tokyo-based English-language school chain, said Friday it has begun accepting Nova lesson tickets from students left in the lurch by the sudden closure of their schools.
EDITORIALS
Nov 3, 2007

In search of a mission

As the special law for antiterrorism measures expired Nov. 1, the government halted the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Indian Ocean mission of refueling naval ships of the United States and other countries engaged in antiterrorism operations. The MSDF mission continued for almost six years. As the mission...
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2007

Housing slump 'threatens growth'

The worst housing slump in four decades and rising oil prices threaten growth in the world's second-largest economy, Cabinet ministers said Friday.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 2, 2007

Pistons in position to deal for Kobe

NEW YORK — Since the NBA last played games that counted, we've had a rogue referee plead guilty, an oafish organization found guilty and the league's principal point producer/insubordinate is within a hair ball of leveraging himself off the Lakers' lot.
BASKETBALL
Nov 2, 2007

With key players moving, Eastern Conference wide open as bj-league tips off

The nights are getting cooler, the days are growing shorter and professional basketball competition is heating up around Japan.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 2, 2007

K-Ballet returns

News in early May this year that Tetsuya Kumakawa had sustained a serious injury on tour in Japan with his K-Ballet Company came as a terrible shock to his legions of fans.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 2, 2007

Shizuoka welcomes street performers' World Cup

World-class street performers descend on Shizuoka Prefecture for the annual Daidogei World Cup this week. Fourteen groups, who have survived a rigorous selection process, will compete for the 16th championship title.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2007

A guy and a girl

In "Once," the couple consisting of the Guy (Glen Hansard) and the Girl (Marketa Irglova) make sweet music but never get together.
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Nov 2, 2007

Venus

Venus © 2006 Venus Pictures Ltd./UK Film Council/Channel 4 Television Corporation
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Nov 2, 2007

Dragons clinch Japan Series

NAGOYA — It was almost the perfect ending to 53 years of heartbreak.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2007

'Always Zoku 3-chome no Yuhi'

Are the Japanese more nostalgic than the rest of us? It's hard to say, but here cinematic look-backs tend to be more bittersweet than in the West, especially films set in Tokyo, which was obliterated in World War II and has undergone several reincarnations in the six decades since.
EDITORIALS
Nov 2, 2007

China stays the course

Continuity was the guiding principle of the Chinese Communist Party's 17th Party Congress, which concluded last week in Beijing. The conclave agreed to enshrine President Hu Jintao's concept of "scientific development" in the party's constitution, a step that elevates his thinking to the level of official...
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2007

'F**k'

There's a great scene in "The Big Lebowski" where Sam Elliott leans over a bar counter next to Jeff Bridges and asks: "Just one thing, Dude. Do you have to use s'many cuss words?" To which The Dude replies, "What the f**k are you talkin' about, man?" That was but one of 281 times the F-word was used...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 2, 2007

Soul goes Hi-Tek with Derrick May

"Basically I'm trying to save the world from bad . . . soulless music in whatever form that may be," 44-year-old DJ Derrick May says on his Web site. So its pretty safe to say there will be no remixes of Spice Girls songs in his set at the Hi-Tek Soul events to be held Nov. 3 and 11.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 2, 2007

"Re-make/Re-model Art, Pop, Fashion and the Making of Roxy Music 1953-1972" By Michael Bracewell

Roxy Music were a powerful force in 1970s pop, with their art-school roots an important aspect of their influential style. It is with a background of British Pop artists such as Richard Hamilton and David Hockney in mind that writer Michael Bracewell attempts to tell the story behind Roxy Music's formation....

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