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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Oct 9, 2007

Actress Devon Aoki in Tokyo with Levi's, Toga in the parking lot and more

Denim diva
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 9, 2007

Keiko Sumi

JUDIT KAWAGUCHI Keiko Sumi, 57, is the 10th-generation owner of Komaruya, a Kyoto-based company that produces traditional and modern handheld fans. Komaruya's fans were selected by Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising company, to represent the best in Japanese craftsmanship at the 2005 Aichi World Expo....
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2007

No. 1 — from violin to hot dogs

Around the world, Japanese have been competing and winning prize after prize. From the world of classical music to intense, if lighthearted, forms of competition, Japan's new international face is composed in part of the many globe-trotting, contest contenders. Clearly, the new generation of Japanese...
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 9, 2007

Smoldering J-love lacks yesteryear's gumption

The question, "What has happened to love these days?" is every bit as serious as the question why diets never work in this country. I'm very distressed to have to report that Japanese love, like Japanese politics and the not-so-quite-lovely outlook of the economy, is unwell. It suffers from low blood...
TENNIS
Oct 8, 2007

Ferrer downs Gasquet to win Japan Open final

Top-seeded David Ferrer of Spain coasted to a 6-1, 6-2 win over third-seeded Richard Gasquet of France on Sunday to win the Japan Open.
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BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2007

Chinese suffering from poverty, uneven development, experts say

The widening economic divide between rural and urban China — and between its coastal and western regions as well — will only get worse as its spectacular economic growth continues, a Chinese scholar warned at a recent symposium in Tokyo.
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2007

When it's unsafe at home

A survey taken by the health ministry between May and June shows 12,575 cases of physical, psychological and other kinds of abuse of people aged 65 years and over in the year since the law to prevent abuse of elderly people went into effect in April 2006. Experts believe the figures reported by the nation's...
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2007

An unsteady step forward

North Korea has agreed to "disable" its facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex and "provide a complete and correct declaration of all nuclear programs" by Dec. 31 in the latest round of six-party talks on the North's nuclear programs. The agreement is a step forward toward the country's denuclearization....
COMMENTARY
Oct 8, 2007

Save cramming for college

On Aug. 30, the elementary-school group of the Central Education Council published a draft report to the education minister that included these points:
COMMENTARY
Oct 8, 2007

Getting Japan's politics wrong

Western media have reported Japan's new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, as drab and unexciting and even as "lukewarm pizza." But anyone who watched him during his more than three-year stint as chief Cabinet secretary would know that he has a sharp mind and a laid-back sense of humor.
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Oct 8, 2007

Japan's huge ad market still slowing foreign firms

It's no secret that Japan's advertising market is one of the world's largest. Indeed, the world's biggest advertising firm is a Japanese one.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2007

No graceful exit for Russia's Grand Putin

VIENNA — For those who still wondered who Vladimir Putin is, the mystery is over. His latest actions show that he is Russia's new autocrat. He is a czar, pure and simple. The seven years since Putin assumed power in the Kremlin have been a time of conflicting signals. On one hand, he appears to be...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2007

Japan's Antiterrorism Special Measures Law and confusion over U.N. authority

Once again there is political debate over military-related legislation under the shadow of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, and once again it has revealed confusion over the international law and constitutional issues involved. The debate is over the extension of the Antiterrorism Special Measures...
SUMO
Oct 7, 2007

Ozeki Kotomitsuki hospitalized

Recently promoted ozeki Kotomitsuki has been hospitalized with appendicitis, his stablemaster Sadogatake said Saturday. Kotomitsuki suddenly started to complain of stomach pains on Thursday morning and entered a hospital in Chiba Prefecture the same day. However, the ozeki will not undergo surgery and...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 7, 2007

Ando falters as U.S. shocks Japan

YOKOHAMA — Led by world junior champion Caroline Zhang and veteran Johnny Weir, the United States pulled off a surprising sweep of Japan in their International Counter Match at Shin-Yokohama Arena on Saturday evening.

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