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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 2, 2007

To oblivion and beyond

Organist Brian Auger's 40-year career has seen him back a young Rod Stewart in the mid-1960s, then hit the top five of the British charts with Julie Driscoll with the Bob Dylan/Rick Danko-penned song "This Wheel's on Fire" in 1968 before he established his own long-running Oblivion Express jazz-pop unit...
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2007

'I Just Didn't Do It' questions court system

, who stars in "Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai" ("I Just Didn't Do It") and Masayuki Suo, the film's director, face reporters Thursday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. SETSUKO KAMIYA PHOTO
CULTURE / Film
Feb 2, 2007

Rookie director digs for the truth

"The Road To Guantanamo" may be the first feature-length film for Mat Whitecross as a director, but his collaborations with Michael Winterbottom stretch back over several years. Whitecross worked as assistant director and editor on Winterbottom films like "In This World," "Nine Songs" and "Code 46."...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 2, 2007

Banda Caliente Grande

Tokyo is home to the largest concentration of big bands of any city in the world. Every night of the year, student, amateur and pro bands are digging into music charts someplace in the city.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 2, 2007

'The Road to Guantanamo'

There's been a lot written in the press about the extralegal prison the American military has been running in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There, people the Bush administration has defined as "enemy combatants" are detained indefinitely, without the protection of the Geneva Conventions or any sort of rights...
MULTIMEDIA
Feb 2, 2007

This one's for Billy

"Rock 'n' roll is scary. Rock 'n' roll can make a person die. Rock 'n' roll may kill," says Seiji, aka Guitar Wolf, last Sunday. And he knows all about that.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 2, 2007

'Shooting Dogs'

When Hitler got his collaborators together and proposed the genocide of Jews, one of the things he said to justify the act was that before long the world will forget the whole thing. He is famed for having cited the example of the Armenian Genocide (1915-1917, in which around a million people were estimated...
MULTIMEDIA
Feb 2, 2007

No need to shell out for these oysters

No prizes for guessing what's on the menu at Tokyo Oyster Bar. The name is succinct, businesslike, almost generic. You would imagine it to be sleek, perhaps a bit impersonal, and definitely a bit pricey -- after all, that's the image most other oyster bars in the city aspire to. You'd be wrong.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2007

LDP launches lineup of Abe goods to boost sagging support

How about drinking coffee from a mug with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's face on it? Or making a cell phone call with Abe dangling from a chain? Or Abe-embossed clear folders, pens and memo pads?
MORE SPORTS
Feb 1, 2007

Grown-up Hingis ready to move beyond comeback

Martina Hingis wants to shake off "the comeback kid" tag.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 1, 2007

Hingis off like a shot at Pan Pacific Open

Martina Hingis enjoyed her magic carpet ride into the quarterfinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2007

H5N1 confirmed at Okayama farm

Dozens of chickens that started dying two weeks ago at a poultry farm in Okayama Prefecture were killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu, agriculture officials confirmed Wednesday, fueling concerns about the future of the poultry industry.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2007

Abe to ministry: Find way to aid war-displaced

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday told seven members of a group of war-displaced Japanese that he has told the health ministry to look at new ways to help the roughly 2,500 resettled Chinese of Japanese descent who were left behind at the end of the war.
BASKETBALL
Feb 1, 2007

MVP Washington to sit out two games with sprained ankle

Osaka Evessa power forward Lynn Washington will miss this weekend's games with a sprained ankle, coach Kensaku Tennichi said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2007

Sony aims to break even despite PS3 price cuts

Price cuts for the PlayStation 3 are among the factors Sony is studying as it seeks to break even in its money-losing gaming segment in the next business year, a company executive said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2007

Toshiba triples its group net profit in April-December period

Toshiba Corp. reported Wednesday a group net profit of 111.3 billion yen for the first three quarters of its 2006 business year to March -- more than triple from the previous year -- led by robust earnings in the liquid crystal display, home electric appliance and nuclear reactor businesses.
EDITORIALS
Feb 1, 2007

Mr. Putin courts India

Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India has prompted the usual dark musings about a new "axis of power" to balance the United States, the West and the international order as it now exists. Yet there is far less to the revitalization of Russia-India ties than the geo-fantasists would have us...

Longform

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