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SOCCER
Jun 15, 2007

Euro transfer gossip reaches feverish level

LONDON (AP) Thierry Henry for Barcelona? Samuel Eto'o for Arsenal? Didier Drogba for AC Milan?
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2007

Fund bill rife with loopholes advances

The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday criticized as "full of holes" that obliges politicians' fund-management bodies to report expenditures over 50,000 yen, as the ruling coalition scrambled to mitigate the fallout from the May suicide of farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka.
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2007

Worst student suicide rate yet

The National Police Agency says that suicides in Japan topped 30,000 for the ninth consecutive year in 2006. While the total number, 32,155, was down 1.2 percent from 2005, the number of suicides among students, 886 — up 25 (2.9 percent) from 2005 — was the worst since 1978 when the NPA started compiling...
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2007

Japan jumps on the bioethanol bandwagon

Japan is looking to bioethanol as a way to become less dependent on imported energy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 15, 2007

'Zukan ni Notte Nai Mushi'

We all need to escape, once in a while, from being serious people in the real world, trying to ace the big test, land the big contract, or earn an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. Rinko Kikuchi, who accomplished the last feat for her turn as a hearing-impaired high-school girl in "Babel,"...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 15, 2007

A year to remember in pictures

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then everyone who visits the World Press Photo Contest's traveling exhibition will have plenty to digest. That's because the WPPC, which runs at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from June 16-Aug. 5, features the best photojournalism of 2006 from lensmen...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 15, 2007

John Wesley Harding

Assuming the stage name John Wesley Harding was a bit cheeky of singer-songwriter Wesley Stace. Associations with Bob Dylan's album of the same name are unavoidable, but Harding didn't start out playing folk music as one might think. Ever since he emerged almost fully formed from his native England in...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 15, 2007

Take a psychedelic trip in Shibuya

Twenty hours of multisensory stimulation featuring art installations, contemporary dance and more would tweak the mind of just about any alternative-art aficionado. For the second time, the Tokyo-based Canadian duo of promoter Josh Child and longtime yoga practitioner Patrick Oancia have joined forces...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2007

Divvy up the gas allowance

PRINCETON, New Jersey — The agreement on climate change reached at Heiligendamm by the Group of Eight leaders merely sets the stage for the real debate to come: How will we divide up the diminishing capacity of the atmosphere to absorb our greenhouse gases?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2007

Cambodia investment pact inked

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Phnom Penh counterpart, Hun Sen, signed a pact Thursday to promote investments by Japanese firms in Cambodia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jun 15, 2007

Koi Suru Nichiyobi Watashi Koi Shita

Director: Ryuichi Hiroki Language: Japanese
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 15, 2007

'The Prestige'

In Hollywood, many a bright young director arrives thinking he'll make a film or two by their rules, pay the mortgage, and then use his newfound power and prestige to make the films he cares about.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 15, 2007

A star in the ascendant returns

Since his first Tokyo performance in 1997 aged 13, Nikolai Tokarev has cemented his reputation as one of the most popular young international pianists in Japan by performing more than 100 concerts here. Moscow-born Tokarev will add to that impressive tally when his forthcoming nationwide tour starts...
CULTURE / Music
Jun 15, 2007

Hikari Ichihara "Stardust"

If you are looking for a way into the music of trumpeter Hikari Ichihara, forget the techno-jazz pop of her synthesizer-heavy debut of originals or even her second album, "Sara Smile," in which she delved into standards, and start with "Stardust," her latest solo album.
LIFE / Travel
Jun 15, 2007

A budget day in Kobe

"I'll meet you at 9.30 p.m. outside the convenience store at Hanshin Uozaki Station," said the pleasant voice on the other end of the phone. It belonged to Aiko, who one year ago founded Kobe Dears, a backpacker hostel a 10-minute train ride from central Kobe proper that she runs with her British husband,...
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2007

More meddling in education

An advisory body to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has disclosed a second set of recommendations on improving the quality of public education. Among them is a call for upgrading moral education. Elementary and junior high schools already have a class on morality once a week, but it is not a course based on...

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