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CHANNEL SURF

CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 23, 2001
Writ large on the small screen
'Platonic Sex," the memoir by popular talent and former AV queen Ai Iijima, has sold more than 1.2 million copies in Japan and, translated into Chinese and Korean, has become the "bible" of young women throughout Asia. It tells the story of a teenage runaway who, free from the obligations of family and school, does just what she wants to until she discovers what it is that's really important to her.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 16, 2001
Some hairy ordeals
Fans of the long-running historical drama series "Mito Komon" (Mondays at 8 p.m. on TBS) may have been slightly put off last spring when Koji Ishizaka, the actor who had just assumed the title role, opted to play it without the character's famous wispy white beard. Mito Komon just wasn't Mito Komon without the whiskers.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 9, 2001
For your regular viewing pleasure
Those who believe young people don't have proper peer models should check out TBS's "Sekai Ururun Taizai (World Sojourn)," which, every Sunday at 10 p.m., features a young celebrity traveling to a distant corner of the globe and living with a local family while learning a local skill or craft.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 2, 2001
Let these be a lesson to you
Fuji TV, one of the main sponsors of the Year of Italy in Japan festival currently under way, will continue its promotion of all things Italian with a "docu-drama" that begins Monday night at 11 and runs for four consecutive nights at the same time. Each 40-minute episode of the "Itaria-tsu (Italy Expert)" series will take place in a different Italian city.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 26, 2001
Dogs and penguins and affairs, oh my!
If you have a dog who doesn't do what you say, you might want to tune in this morning to Asahi TV's Sunday talk show "Tokusuru TV (Beneficial TV)" (9:30 a.m.), where actors Masayuki Watanabe and Wakako Shinozaki play-act at being a couple who entertain guests with interesting tips for everyday life.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 12, 2001
War and remembrance
This Wednesday marks the 56th anniversary of the Japanese surrender, but, as usual, only NHK is commemorating it in any significant way.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 5, 2001
Terrors, real and imagined
August means hot weather and ghost stories to add a little chill to the muggy air. Tonight, on TV Tokyo's "Sunday Big Special" (7 p.m.), host Tsurutaro Kataoka will explore various occultish phenomena for either your terrified delectation or your nonbelieving derision.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 29, 2001
Tie the knot, raise a family, take the plunge
TBS's new daily, 30-minute hiru-dora (afternoon drama) series premieres Monday at 1:30 p.m. "Kids War 3," which TBS is promoting as a "home comedy," is the third 45-episode series about the ups and downs of the Imais, a Brady Bunch-like family trying to make do in contemporary Japan. Haruko (Akiko Ikuina) and Daisuke (Taro Kawano) Imai each bring to their union two children from past marriages. Together they have produced a daughter, and Daisuke's mother completes the eight-member household.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 22, 2001
Tarento find beauty is only cosmetically deep
Tonight at 11:30, TBS's documentary series, "World Heritage," will cover the Hiroshima Peace Dome, which has symbolized the atomic bombing since 1945, when it partially withstood the blast that flattened the entire city around it. The dome has been maintained in its damaged state for 56 years as a monument to the people who died in the attack, but while everyone in the world recognizes it on sight, most of us know nothing else about it.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 15, 2001
It takes two to tangle
Hong Kong pop idol Faye Wong already has quite a few fans in Japan, but she's sure to add more on a weekly basis thanks to her costarring role in the summer comedy series "Usokoi (False Love)" (Fuji TV, Tuesday, 10 p.m.). Wong plays a young Chinese woman appropriately named Faye, who is studying to be a designer in Japan, but she isn't really the main focus of the levity.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 8, 2001
Corporate warriors suit up for revolution
With the Upper House elections looming and the previously overlooked "urban salaryman" vote attracting special attention, NHK has decided to address the issue with a special 21/2-hour discussion Saturday titled "Japan's Salaryman Revolution" (NHK-G, 7:30 p.m.).
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 1, 2001
Oh, the places they'll go and the people they'll be
Ultraman, Japan's original TV superhero, first appeared 35 years ago, and since then there has been a string of Ultramen who adhere to the same cosmic rules (he can only remain on Earth for three minutes maximum) but who have embodied different values in line with the changing times.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 24, 2001
Condiment of champions
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, TBS will broadcast a 24-hour special, "Fight TV 24," starting at 8 p.m. Saturday.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 17, 2001
When commuter hell takes on a whole new meaning
Several weeks ago, JR's Saikyo Line started to reserve at least one car on its nightly commuter runs for women. The move followed a precedent set last year by the Keio Line, whose new service, according to reports, is very popular.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 10, 2001
All problems, great and small
Up-to-the-minute trends and subjects are often incorporated into the story lines of television drama series. Unfortunately, topicality is usually given more consideration than relevance, and the dramas themselves rarely explore the reality of problems such as AIDS or teenage depression.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 3, 2001
From simple folk to the royal couple
When the American folk revival landed on the shores of Japan in the early '60s, it gave rise to the "modern folk" movement. Japanese musicians copied The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, and it was only a matter of time before students started writing songs that reflected their own situations.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
May 27, 2001
Who says that women can't have it all?
Several weeks ago, this column covered TBS's romantic comedy series "Love Story," in which Miho Nakayama plays a not-so-successful book editor whose employer tries to force her to quit by assigning her to its most difficult author. Though, as with all "trendy dramas," this one is mainly about love, Nakayama's role as a career woman is what attracts the desired demographic.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
May 20, 2001
Ten weddings and a quiz show
'Timeshock" was one of the original Japanese quiz shows, an uncomplicated but tense trivia contest that kept viewers glued to their screens in the '60s and made its voluble host, the late Jiro Tamiya, a superstar. The heart of the show was the intense one-minute barrage of questions that the contestants had to undergo in order to win prize money. Speed was the thing, and keeping one's cool the secret to success.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
May 13, 2001
Death and the maidens
TBS's "Sekai Fushigi Hakken," currently the longest-running quiz show on commercial TV, was also one of the first series to combine education and entertainment in a way that didn't compromise either. Whereas the previous record-holder, "Naruhodo the World," which went off the air several years ago, presented foreign lands as they are now, "Sekai" takes a historical perspective.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
May 6, 2001
Drumming up some PR for the old neighborhood
Most of the current travel-information programs you see on TV are stylistic offshoots of TBS's long-running "Soko ga Shiritai," which has been off the air for several years now. One of the few variety shows that has done something different with the format is TV Tokyo's "Shutsubotsu! Ad-Machikku Tengoku" (Saturday, 9 p.m.), which is closer in style and purpose to information magazines, especially the best-selling city guide Hanako. Though "Shutsubotsu" has visited other cities in Japan and once even went overseas to Hong Kong, it mainly stays in Tokyo.
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Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.

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