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Mar 22, 2008

U.S., Japan set to battle in Global Challenge Bowl

KAWASAKI — At first glance, it looks to have replaced its predecessor. But the main concept actually offers a whole lot of new excitement to the young participants.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 22, 2008

Here they are once again — The Cherry Blossoms!

Nothing excites Japanese people the way cherry blossoms do. Cherry blossoms are something the Japanese are so proud of, they can't help but smile when someone mentions the magic word: o-hanami.
COMMENTARY
Mar 22, 2008

Iraq after five years of war

LONDON — March 20 marked five years since U.S. President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq. Can Iraq emerge from this ordeal as a place where people lead reasonably safe and happy lives?
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2008

Japan, Rosneft ink agreement on oil exploration, production

Japan and OAO Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil producer, signed an initial agreement to cooperate in crude oil exploration and production, part of Japan's efforts to win better access to overseas reserves.
COMMENTARY
Mar 21, 2008

Tibet and Olympic Games

Events in Tibet have turned ugly. Once again we see the harm caused by Beijing's heavy-handed bureaucracy, and its panicky, untrained soldiers used for crowd control. But even when combined with all of Beijing's other alleged sins — Darfur, pollution, human rights and other issues — does Tibet justify...
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Mar 21, 2008

Albirex looking to continue dominance of Apache in key series

This weekend marks the Niigata Albirex BB's first trip to Ariake Colosseum during the 2007-08 season.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2008

Deterrence fails in a prison with no key

PRINCETON, New Jersey — Every day in the Gaza Strip, strategic deterrence — the inhibition of attack by fear of punishment from superior military power — is being put to the test. The escalating spiral of violence by Israel and Gazan militants indicates not only that deterrence is failing, but...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 21, 2008

Alice Cooper's psycho vaudeville

Alice Cooper, veteran rock star and all-around showbiz maven, is on the phone from Melbourne, Australia, where he plays two concerts before continuing on to New Zealand and then Japan. The singer promises that his Psycho Drama tour contains "all the hits," as well as the stage theatrics he's notorious...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 21, 2008

Kaneko, LaRocca lead Buffaloes to season-opening victory

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Chihiro Kaneko couldn't believe he was going to start the Orix Buffaloes' first game of the season. On Thursday, he made believers out of the Seibu Lions.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 21, 2008

Then there were ghosts

Uraga Station, on the Keikyu Line, deposits passengers at the end of a narrow valley. The road ahead bifurcates.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 21, 2008

Setagaya theater brings kyogen forward

Mansai Nomura is the leading star of kyogen (Japan's traditional comedy theater), but this 41-year-old who made his stage debut at age 3 has several other artistic faces, having acted in films, TV dramas and in contemporary theater dramas, too.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 21, 2008

Folk music lights traditional tales

Takeharu Kunimoto's entry into the music world was via the mandolin, which he took up in 1974 while he was still in junior high school. But it wasn't the lure of traditional European tunes that attracted him to the ancient instrument; it was the twangy rhythms of the blues- and jazz-fusion American...
EDITORIALS
Mar 21, 2008

Bank of Japan without a governor

The Upper House led by the Democratic Party of Japan has rejected the nomination of Mr. Koji Tanami, governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, as the next chief of the Bank of Japan. Appointments at the BOJ leadership require approval of both houses of the Diet. The rejection Wednesday...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 21, 2008

'Memo'

Some directors put their own neuroses on the screen, with attitudes ranging from the dramatically self-lacerating (Ingmar Bergman) to the comically self-deprecating (Woody Allen). Where actor-turned-director Jiro Sato departs from the messed-up norm in "Memo," his first feature film, is in the rawness...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 21, 2008

'Jellyfish'

War and its implications are the first things one tends to associate with Israeli cinema, perhaps because those kind of films are the ones that make it to the film festivals and get international releases (most notable are the works of director Amos Gitai).
EDITORIALS
Mar 21, 2008

Top court buries a skeleton

The Supreme Court on March 14 dismissed, on the strength of a legal technicality, a request to retry five deceased journalists convicted of promoting communism during the Pacific War years. The five had been convicted in the "Yokohama Incident," regarded as the worst case of free-speech suppression during...

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