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CULTURE / Music
Mar 3, 2006

Rhett Miller "The Believer"

Once again, Rhett Miller, lead singer-songwriter for The Old 97s, exorcises his pop demons on his new solo effort, "The Believer." A collection of mostly upbeat songs about the redemptive power of love, the album is much like his underrated 2002 debut, "The Instigator."
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2006

Oracle to release search software

Oracle Corp. announced Thursday it will market a new software package worldwide by the end of March that will allow corporate users to easily search their company databases.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 3, 2006

DJ gatecrashes VIP party

One of the biggest names in Japanese dance music, Mondo Grosso, returns to Club Yellow in Roppongi, Tokyo, on March 3 as a guest DJ for "Cyberjapan presents VIP Club."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Mar 3, 2006

Psychedelic radar 03.03

Saturday, March 4
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Mar 3, 2006

Water, water . . . almost everywhere

Squeezed between the Sumida and Arakawa rivers, sliced with canals, and facing Tokyo Bay, Koto Ward is sometimes known as the "Venice of Tokyo." While the comparison is a considerable stretch -- many of the canals have been filled in or obscured by buildings and highways, and you certainly won't spot...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 3, 2006

Blues from the Delta Crossing

On the Tokyo blues scene, the gut power of Delta blues has had few finer exponents than Steve Gardner. A Mississippi native who has made Tokyo his home, Gardner learned the blues at its source in the Mississippi Delta. While visiting the bluesmen and blueswomen in their homes there as a photojournalist,...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 3, 2006

Access to comic noh drama gets easier

Setagaya Public Theatre's next program in its kyogen (comic drama) series, "The Kyogen Theatre Vol. 3.," runs March 2 through March 12.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 3, 2006

Charlie Hunter, Chinna Smith, Ernest Ranglin "Earth Tones"

What happens when Charlie Hunter, one of jazz's hottest young guitarists, teams up with Ernest Ranglin, Jamaica's session man extraordinaire, and Chinna Smith, Bob Marley's rhythm guitarist? "Earth Tones" -- a unique and extraordinary blend of Hunter's special eight-string guitar with Smith's rhythm-ready...
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Japan grows on those who pay visit: poll

South Korean and Chinese high school students who have been to Japan like Japan more than those who have never been, a survey showed Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 3, 2006

Freaky tribal gathering

They are playing like schoolgirls, bouncing a balloon-shaped teddy-bear off each other and gaily dancing about in front of the Kiddy Ferris Wheel (admission 100 yen) for the lone press camera.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 3, 2006

Spice with style on the side

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CULTURE / Music
Mar 3, 2006

James Brown

Of all the self-promoting labels James Brown has appropriated in his career, "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" is probably the most apt. People think it refers to the intensity of his live performances -- the hoarse screams, the manic, stuttery dance steps, the buckets of perspiration -- but...
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2006

Lower House approves 80 trillion yen fiscal budget

The 79.69 trillion yen fiscal 2006 budget cleared the House of Representatives on Thursday, paving the way for Diet approval by the March 31 fiscal yearend.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 3, 2006

Funny play, serious themesfrom Sometimes Y Theatre

Sometimes Y Theatre presents its latest production, George F. Walker's gritty comedy "Problem Child," at the Canadian Embassy Theatre in Akasaka, Tokyo, March 3-5. A not-for-profit theater company that has been active in Canada and Tokyo for almost a decade, Sometimes Y Theatre's latest production marks...
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 2, 2006

Nakata plays down late heroics in Bosnia friendly

Japan midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata heads in the equalizer during second-half injury time in an international friendly match against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Dortmund, Germany, on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 2, 2006

Team Japan cuts Giants down to size

The Yomiuri Giants couldn't find first base with a map and a guide Wednesday night at Tokyo Dome.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

World must allow Iran's uranium program: Mottaki

Iran will not stop its uranium enrichment efforts and other countries should ensure it has the right to have a nuclear program for "peaceful purposes," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

Obituary: Richard Poole

Richard Poole, one of the Americans who helped draft Japan's Constitution, died Sunday at his home in Virginia, his family said. He was 86.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

Efforts fail to save whale pod beaching in Chiba

About 50 whales were found dead Wednesday after they beached for a second time in Chiba Prefecture, despite an earlier attempt to redirect them to the sea, an official said.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

Ikata pluthermal plan basically OK: safety panel

The safety examination panel of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan raised no objections Wednesday to a plan use fuel with uranium and plutonium for the Ikata power plant in Ehime Prefecture, panel members said.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

Blatant, erroneous forced confession slammed

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations warned police and prosecutors Wednesday over a case in which a mentally impaired man in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, was erroneously arrested and charged for robbery.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

DPJ figures e-mail fiasco is over; LDP begs to differ

The Democratic Party of Japan hopes to pick a new Diet affairs chief soon because it believes the uproar over the e-mail allegation has been settled with the apology by lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata and executives of the main opposition party, members said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

Burned Livedoor investors huddle to weigh options

Takashi Shimokawa, 56, is a staunch believer in digital technology and the potential of multimedia.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

Obituary: Mutsuki Kato

Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Mutsuki Kato died of heart failure Tuesday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 79.
EDITORIALS
Mar 2, 2006

'Black eye' for Philippine democracy

"People power" has a long history in the Philippines. Mass protests have unseated two presidents. The current president, Mrs. Gloria Arroyo, who came to office on the tide of the second uprising, is determined not to be the third. Last week, she declared a state of emergency to quash a coup. She has...
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006

U.S. agent suspected of tax evasion

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau suspects a man helping a U.S. company negotiate contracts for its cell-phone patents with Japanese makers hid more than 1 billion yen in income and evaded 400 million yen in taxes from 2001 to 2004, sources said Wednesday.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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