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CEREMONY

Japan Times
JAPAN
May 31, 2015
First school dedicated to Japanese residents opens in Cambodia
A ceremony was held Sunday to open Cambodia's first dedicated school for Japanese children living in the country.
JAPAN / History
Apr 24, 2015
Abe not expected to attend May 9 Moscow WWII ceremony
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to decline Russia's invitation to attend celebrations in Moscow on May 9 marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, government sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Apr 18, 2015
Mastering the art of partaking in a tea ceremony
"Cold, withered, shrunken."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 11, 2014
Physics trio collect Nobel prize at gala
The three Japan-born physicists who won this year's Nobel Prize in physics for inventing energy-efficient blue light-emitting diodes received their prize at a ceremony in Stockholm on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2014
Futaba school ceremonies restarted
For the first time since the nuclear crisis began, the evacuated town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, like elsewhere around the country, held opening ceremonies for schools and kindergartens on Monday — albeit at a new location in the neighboring city of Iwaki.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2014
Tohoku schools, businesses welcome new faces
With the start of the new fiscal year Tuesday, schools and companies in the areas hit by the March 2011 disasters welcomed newcomers as a breath of fresh air in the region's efforts to rebuild.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Mar 16, 2014
Tone it down, don't upstage the graduate
Spring is just around the corner, and for teachers and parents with kids who are moving on to the next stage in the Japanese education system, that means graduation season.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 10, 2014
Fashion week is here again; see what the ordinary folk are invited to
Don't miss out on Tokyo Fashion Week
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 22, 2014
VIP attends Takeshima ceremony
A senior government official attended a ceremony Saturday commemorating the "incorporation" of two tiny islets at the center of a territorial dispute with South Korea.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 12, 2014
Yokohama holds a giant tea party
Learn about Japan's most commonly drunk beverage; try out different varieties of tea leaves; and learn to blend your own flavors.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 27, 2013
'Raku Tea Bowls and Celebrating the New Year with Pine Trees in the Snow'
Raku (comfort, ease) bowls were considered some of the most valued tea-ceremony vessels throughout Japan during the 16th and 17th century. Originally created by 16-century tea master Sen Rikyu and tile master Chojiro, the bowls, usually made from red or black clay and hand molded, were passed down through generations. They became symbolically influential throughout Japan's history of culture and literature.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 20, 2013
Tea bowls, simple emblems of power
"Ido Tea Bowls: Treasured Possessions of Muromachi Daimyo," currently showing at the Nezu Museum, presents an array of 72 rare tea bowls that were once owned by renowned warlords, tea masters and Buddhist temples. Produced by country potters in kilns in Korea's South Kyungsang province, these bowls were originally for domestic use and became treasured by Japanese tea masters and Muromachi Period (1338-1573) warlords for their rustic simplicity and rarity. They came to play a pivotal role in Japanese history.
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Oct 2, 2013
True tradition would be preferable to an 'Idolympics' in 2020
Ten-thousand Kumamons doing an elaborate Busby Berkeley-style dance routine to Kyu Sakamoto's international 1963 hit "Sukiyaki"? A 100-meter Hatsune Miku towering over the stadium while 80,000 spectators crane their necks for a glimpse up her skirt? Newly elected Prime Minister Pamyu Pamyu speeding up a ramp and jumping into the stadium on Kaneda's bike from "Akira" to deliver the "Idolympic" Torch?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2013
Sovereignty celebration hit by protests
The government holds its first formal celebration of the day the San Francisco Peace Treaty ended the allied Occupation, angering residents in Okinawa, which stayed under U.S. control until 1972.
EDITORIALS / NOTES ON A SCORECARD
Apr 12, 2011
Reconstruction after the disaster
A month has passed since the massive quake and tsunami on March 11 devastated the pacific coastal area of the Tohoku region. Some 13,000 people perished and about 14,500 people are missing. Some 148,000 evacuees remain at temporary shelters. It is unlikely that the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will end in the foreseeable future.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2009
For a stronger safety net
As economic conditions worsen and an increasing number of workers, especially irregularly employed workers, lose their jobs, it is becoming urgent that the government strengthen the social safety net.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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