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SUMMER

Japan Times
SUMO / Basho reports
May 14, 2013
Harumafuji stumbles on second day of basho
Yokozuna Harumafuji was sent to a shock defeat at the hands of Myogiryu on the second day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday.
Japan Times
SUMO / Basho reports
May 13, 2013
Hakuho victorious in Summer Basho opener
Hakuho outfoxed Tochiozan to make a winning start in his bid for a 25th career title on Sunday, while yokozuna rival Harumafuji also won handsomely on the opening day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 9, 2013
Bugg scores with working-class familiarities
"I hadn't been anywhere before last year, I'd hardly left England. And now I'm going to Japan. I never thought I'd be going to a place like that. I think it is going to blow my mind."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 23, 2013
Shortcake Collage Tape "Spirited Summer"
Creating music meant to purposely evoke the past can be tricky. Recreate the sounds of a specific decade too closely and the music becomes too nostalgic, pining for a time the artist never even knew existed. On the other hand, approach bygone times too cynically — as the Internet-born microgenre "vaporwave" does by perverting old commercials and corporate sounds — and it starts to sound like a joke. Tokyo's Shortcake Collage Tape, the solo project of Azusa Suga (who also fronts indie-pop trio For Tracy Hyde,) takes an alternate route on the new album "Spirited Summer." Suga splices samples from various time periods to create original songs that radiate warmth and good times but also conceal a melancholy for lost moments.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Aug 22, 2012
Take the kids back in time this summer
Japanese people are rediscovering the charms of a simpler life, if only for a weekend.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 2, 2012
Edo-era amazake is back to beat the summer heat
The Edo-era health tonic amazake is back to help Japan beat the summer heat.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Aug 1, 2012
Housewives go DIY in attack on insects
Japanese women are turning to essential oils instead of chemicals for insect repellent.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Jul 18, 2012
Today's J-blip: Suteteko
Hot under the collar? Cool down with suteteko.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 4, 2012
Cool heat-blockers for summer 2012
It's gonna be a scorcher out there, but at least Japan Inc. has dreamed up a few new fun ways to beat the heat.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Jun 28, 2012
Today's J-blip: Bang a paper drum
Yumiko Matsui's intricately crafted depictions of life in Japan look great on paper.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Jul 11, 2011
The latest and greatest gear for keeping it cool
It's gonna be a scorcher out there today, and tomorrow, and tomorrow ... Make sure you have the right gear for the dog days ahead.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 20, 2010
Summer pick-me-ups for salarymen
The salarymen of Japan have got it tough in the summertime, but we've found a few things that might ease the pain.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 25, 2008
Spiritualized beat the reaper
Jason Pierce almost died in July 2005. Hooked up to a ventilator and suffering from double pneumonia, Pierce — aka J Spaceman — shrank to 45 kg and spent two weeks in intensive care in a London hospital. Things looked so bad that his girlfriend was offered grief counseling.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 17, 2007
Girls have all the fun
If there was a festival anthem to this year's Summer Sonic, it was "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." The overflowing crowd at Cyndi Lauper's Sunday set on the Sonic Stage was mostly made up of women who mouthed every word to her string of hits. And when she finished with her biggest hit, the female members of The Polyphonic Spree and Tilly and The Wall joined her on stage to she-bop ecstatically.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
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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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
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