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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 21, 2008

Cherry blossom afternoon tea at Tokyo's top hotels

Cheery cherry blossom time With 14 types of sakura (cherry blossom) in its garden, there are probably few better places for a sakura fair than the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 21, 2008

'My Blueberry Nights'

What in the world has happened to Wong Kar-wai? The freshest, most effortlessly cool man in cinema since the mid-1990s, Wong seems to be floundering at the moment. For a director whose style once seemed all about being free, off-the-cuff, jammed out, and playful, his most recent flicks show every sign...
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 21, 2008

Leandro's early strike prolongs misery for Reds, new coach

Urawa Reds' early season nightmare continued on Thursday as Vissel Kobe claimed a 1-0 Nabisco Cup win in new Reds manager Gert Engels' first match in charge. Leandro's third-minute strike was enough to send the J. League's biggest club crashing to its third defeat in three games, setting the seal on...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Mar 21, 2008

Bura Bura Ban Ban

Director: Yohka Kusano
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / MY PLAYLIST
Mar 21, 2008

MY PLAYLIST: Cornelius

Keigo Oyamada stopped writing hits a long time ago. Not playing the pop star suits him just fine. It gives Oyamada — formerly of Flipper's Guitar but better known since 1993 as avant-pop boffin Cornelius — more time to indulge his multimedia fantasies to the full, as captured on two new DVDs released...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 21, 2008

Zu

Italian trio Zu pride themselves on their work ethic and ability to battle adversity. Since forming in Rome in 1997, they have successfully performed their innovative mix of baritone saxophone, bass and drums at 1,000-plus gigs throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 21, 2008

Yuki "Video 2"

Whatever you think about the quality of solo output by artsy pop diva Yuki, one-time vocalist with groundbreaking 1990s J-pop act Judy & Mary, you can't deny that she's unique. The singles from her fourth solo album, "Wave" (2006), and those that have followed may seem a bit samey, treading the same...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 21, 2008

New York Theater Workshop

Founded in 1979 in Manhattan's trendy East Village, the New York Theater Workshop (NYTW) is one of the most provocative and successful off-Broadway theaters in the United States. The megahit Broadway musical "RENT" by Jonathan Larson was born as a NYTW studio production in 1994 before it transferred...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 21, 2008

Anime universe shifts to Tokyo

Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008, one of the world's largest animation conventions, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from March 27 to 30.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 21, 2008

Nisennenmondai "Destination Tokyo"

All-girl instrumental three-piece Nisennenmondai shook the Tokyo underground scene with the release of the mini album "Sore de Souzo Suru Neji" in 2004. They quickly gained a reputation as one of the hottest new bands in Japan for the way they combined elements of minimalist 1970s progressive rock like...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 21, 2008

Shinsuke: A sip of sake in shitamachi

Slowly but surely word is getting out to the rest of the world: Japanese restaurants don't have to be formal, exquisite and jaw-droppingly pricey. Quite the opposite, in fact: Eating out in Tokyo can be casual, friendly, affordable and fun.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 21, 2008

Words from the food wise on finding the best izakaya

The izakaya, of course, is much more than a pub in the Western sense of a drinking establishment. While there will always be plenty of sake and other kinds of inebriants, food is an integral part of the experience — ranging from tried-and-true traditional "comfort cooking" to inventive cuisine with...
BASKETBALL
Mar 20, 2008

Perennial powers square off for JBL title

The Toyota Motors Alvark and Aisin Sea Horses are perennial powerhouses in the JBL, and as most people anticipated, the familiar names are the last teams standing.
COMMENTARY
Mar 20, 2008

Brace for the Arctic oil rush

LONDON — For decades the world's major oil companies and their engineering experts have been eyeing the Arctic region and wondering how to get at the oil and gas deposits that are said to lie, in almost legendary quantities, beneath the vast expanses of ice. With the price of crude oil now well above...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2008

Last chance for millions of Zimbabweans

PRAGUE — As the world rooted for former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in his recent efforts to end the violence in Kenya, many also found themselves wondering whether a weary Annan, or some other global leader, will be battling another fire by the end of this month: this time in Zimbabwe....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2008

NPO works to reduce hunger, trim waistlines

Still haven't made up your mind what to eat for lunch today?
Reader Mail
Mar 20, 2008

Basis for discriminatory legislation

In his March 16 letter, "Leave immigration to Darwin," William Wetherall tackles the subject of ethnic Koreans and Chinese being stripped of their Japanese nationality after World War II by emphatically stating that "[t]he loss of Japanese nationality by some former subjects after World War II was not...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 20, 2008

Dragons hungry for Japan Series repeat

For the first time in more than 50 years, the Chunichi Dragons will open the season as Japan Series Champions.
Reader Mail
Mar 20, 2008

Syndrome of victimhood

I couldn't help but laugh as I read the March 16 article on "Metabolic Syndrome" by Tomoko Otake. "Metabo" has been getting a lot of undue attention in Japan these days without people really understanding what it is. Maybe it's just me, but at one time we had a different name for people who carried...
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2008

BOJ helm left vacant as DPJ vetoes pick

In a postwar first, the Bank of Japan lacks a chief following the Upper House rejection Wednesday of the government's latest candidate to replace BOJ Gov. Toshihiko Fukui, whose five-year term ended the same day.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 20, 2008

2008 Central League preview

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CULTURE / Film
Mar 20, 2008

The final days of revolutionary struggle in Japan

The West sees the turbulent era of the late 1960s and early '70s principally through the lens of its own protesters and radicals, with America's war in Vietnam the focal point of activist anger. If it thinks about East Asia in this period at all, it is usually the China of Mao and the Red Guards, who...
Reader Mail
Mar 20, 2008

Why patronize such a club?

A drunk American getting killed in a bar fight in Hiroo (in Tokyo)? Bullets is the name of the club? No thank you. If every drunk in Tokyo was killed by workers at clubs, there would be fewer and fewer people going out to clubs and I am sure the foreigners in Tokyo are smarter than to go to a crappy...

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