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Nov 24, 2006

Suicides lay bare bullying menace

Eight years ago, Shinichiro and Midori Komori's 15-year-old daughter, Kasumi, committed suicide.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Nov 24, 2006

Rooms with a top-class view

Mado Lounge sits on the 52nd floor of the Mori Tower Building in the Roppongi Hills complex. As the last stop at the top of the structure, it is a fitting location for the building's official City View attraction. For 1,500 yen, a whisper-quiet elevator smoothly whisks you to the top in less than a minute,...
CULTURE / Music
Nov 24, 2006

Joanna Newsom "Ys"

Joanna Newsom possesses genius on a ridiculous number of levels. She plays pixie folk music on a harp, but doesn't rest on the mere novelty of the idea. Her lyrics are stream-of-consciousness, but she has two things that run counter to this type of songwriting: an unimpeachable sincerity and a complex...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 24, 2006

Netted by the charms of fishy Kochi

Arched around the underbelly of Shikoku and following the great indentation of Tosa Bay carved into that island by the Pacific, Kochi Prefecture is one of those places over which a sense of isolation has long seemed to hang.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 24, 2006

Aardman exhibits, new Miyazaki anime on view

With reports that Japan's best-known anime director Hayao Miyazaki met up on the sidelines with director Nick Park at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival, after having previously visited Park's studio in England, perhaps it's little surprise that Aardman Animations now finds itself the subject...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 24, 2006

Watch this MySpace

W ith sites already running in Europe and Australia, U.S. social networking site MySpace finally landed in Japan last week, squaring up against the all-conquering homegrown service Mixi.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 24, 2006

Foo Fighters

Seriously, what's left for Dave Grohl to do in the world of rock 'n' roll? After playing in tiny, dilapidated clubs with hardcore punk act Scream in the late 1980s, he kicked off the '90s by drumming for one of the decade's most influential groups, Nirvana. Then, in the mid-'90s, Grohl formed his current...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 24, 2006

Sounds of the British underground

Nov. 30 sees the second British Underground club night, a monthly Tokyo event that aims to introduce new British music to a Japanese audience. With upfront tracks supplied directly by labels in the U.K. and then spun by British and Japanese DJs, organizers are claiming that the event "offers a diverse...
COMMENTARY
Nov 24, 2006

Breaking the trade impasse

LONDON -- Gordon Brown, the British chancellor of the exchequer and likely successor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, has declared publicly his strong support for a successful conclusion to the Doha round of world trade negotiations. He has called for new mechanisms to break the global logjam on trade and...
CULTURE / Music
Nov 24, 2006

Shack ". . . the Corner of Miles and Gil"

Michael Head, leader of Liverpool's early 1980s alt-pop hopefuls The Pale Fountains, formed Shack with his brother John in the late '80s. After a run of bad luck with a studio fire in 1991 and a record co. bankruptcy, they almost called it quits. Shack's music lacked the Fountains' frantic tunefulness,...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 24, 2006

Celtic thunder in step with modern

Trinity Irish Dance Company's monthlong tour of Japan draws to a close on Nov. 28, 29 and 30 in Tokyo before a final date in Hamamatsu City on Dec. 1.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 24, 2006

Neil Cowley Trio "Displaced"

The debut recording by pianist Neil Cowley, "Displaced" is one of the best British jazz releases in some time. The trio has a big, meaty sound and melodic energy, yet their complexities stand out as strongly as their freewheeling, almost rocklike sense of fun.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 24, 2006

Back to basics

After a summer of mixed fortunes in which the Mariinsky (formerly Kirov) Ballet faced criticism in some quarters for its ill-prepared performances, the "world's greatest ballet company" should be on safer ground this month and next when it performs classics from the ballet repertoire on a Japan tour...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2006

What monetary policy does China need?

PRAGUE -- China's remarkable growth has been financed recently by a rapid expansion of money and bank credit that is producing an increasingly unsustainable investment boom. This renews concern that the country may not be able to avert a replay of the painful boom-and-bust cycle it endured in the mid-1990s....

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