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WEEK 3

Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2013
Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc
For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sano, southern Tochigi Prefecture.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2013
Tracing time's passing through faces of Tokyo
Petri Artturi Asikainen would regularly accost strangers in Tokyo, on the streets, in parks or bars and on trains. With a high-end Nikon D3 digital SLR in his hands, the lanky and bespectacled Finn would ask — somewhat timidly summoning one of the few Japanese phrases he had memorized: "Can I take a picture of you?" If the answer was in the affirmative, he'd then fire off another, even more personal inquiry: "How old are you?"
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CULTURE / Art / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2013
Art disaster turns out to have a silver lining
A dozen paintings hang from the white walls of a gallery at the Museum of Modern Art in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Mostly prewar works by artists involved in the Proletarian movement, who focused on depictions of factory and farm laborers, the paintings are like many others on display at the museum — except that alongside each is a small photograph showing the same works cracked, scratched and, in many cases, caked in dirt and paper pulp.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Jan 19, 2013
Turnip-tossing turns up trumps for trader
Yoshio Otsuka's years of striving to revive a near-extinct strain of turnip known to have been grown some 400 years ago in the Shinagawa district of today's central Tokyo recently struck pay dirt in a most unexpected fashion.
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ASIA PACIFIC / WEEK 3
Jan 19, 2013
Nanjing remembers; disputes fester
Young Chinese marking the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre are baptized in battles over war memory that shape bilateral relations.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Jan 19, 2013
Zen and the cross-cultural art of tree-climbing
In the upstairs meeting room of a camping lodge in Komagane, Nagano Prefecture, two women and about 20 men walked slowly and intently in circles one rainy day last November. At the front of the room, a weathered and wiry Englishman intoned the sort of instructions a yoga aficionado would find familiar.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2012
Survivor pens 'too painful' 3/11 tale
'March 11, 2011 — We will never forget the day. The disaster ...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2012
Last Tokyo street view of Mount Fuji set to go
As the sun sets over a small patch of the Nippori district of Tokyo's northeastern Arakawa Ward, people can often be seen stopping to gaze to the West — something not so surprising atop a street named Fujimizaka, which means "Mount Fuji Viewing Slope."
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LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2012
Tsunami survivor uses English to share his tragic story
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CULTURE / Art / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2012
Pyongyang offers a rare 'real' photo opportunity
Most images of North Korea appearing in the media express just a few aspects of that country — namely, repression, militarism, poverty, backwardness, gloom.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Nov 18, 2012
Roller derby dames get rough and tough on the rink
The whistle blows and Kristina "Ragin' Redhead" Owens Hawkins, a jammer for the Yokosuka Sushi Rollers roller derby team, darts quickly as she approaches an aggressive pack of blockers. She scans for a weak spot between two ladies in the back. She spots a gap. It's not too big, but it's large enough for Hawkins to get through. Without pause she breaks through the wall of women onto her right skate, before she pulls her entire body through she quickly searches for a another breach and a teammate to help her. Six women stand between her and lead jammer status — seven if you include the jammer for the Yokota Scary Blossoms team. Four of them are allies, but the other two have a mission to take Hawkins down. She bounces back and forth between skaters, hip checked from the left, shouldered from the right, but manages to stay on her skates. As she catches up with the last blocker, she's delivered a hard bump to her hip that sends her flying out of bounds. The check costs her lead jammer status and her Scary Blossoms opponent skates past. It's not over, though, she still has a chance to redeem herself in later jams.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Nov 18, 2012
Moss art: growing a masterpiece
What's green, fuzzy and has a starring role in Japan's national anthem?
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Nov 18, 2012
The muddy issue of cesium in a lake
Lake Kasumigaura in Ibaraki Prefecture is facing an environmental threat that has essentially turned it into a time bomb ticking away 60 km northeast of Tokyo.
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CULTURE / Stage / WEEK 3
Oct 21, 2012
Dramatists explore the essence of language in new play
In a small studio just a seagull's squawk from Tokyo Bay in the Higashi Gotanda district of Shinagawa Ward, a unique play titled "Understandable?" briefly delighted packed houses of baffled Japanese and others recently with its absurd-but-not, "abandoned- in-translation" dialogue devoid of subtitles.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Sep 16, 2012
'Cheating' robot poses tech and ethical issues
Like a child eagerly trying to win some trading cards during a playground huddle, I scrunch up my fingers behind my back before unleashing my hand in time-honored fashion with the Japanese phrase: "Saisho wa gu, janken ... pon!"
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Sep 16, 2012
Sex samaritan keeps walking the walk
Self-styled "sex helper" Shingo Sakatsume has lost count of the abuses he claims the media and the authorities have heaped on him.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Sep 16, 2012
Lover of detail strives to keep a kimono-dyeing art alive
As an expert dyer of Edo-komon-style kimonos whose repeated, especially intricate patterns are often so tiny as to be almost microscopic, Emika Iwashita is a mistress of subtlety and the tiniest detail.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 19, 2012
Politics taint Ahn Sehong's 'comfort women' photo exhibition
Visitors to a photo exhibition would not typically be asked to open their bags or walk through a metal detector before entering the exhibition site. Nor would they expect to catch the inquisitive gazes of various plainclothes police officers lurking in the crowd once inside.
LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 19, 2012
Scholar Tenshin Okakura's seaside pavilion, destroyed in tsunami, witnesses a new dawn
Rokkakudo, a small, six-sided wooden pavilion that overlooks the Pacific Ocean from a low rocky headland in northern Ibaraki Prefecture, is by no means Tenshin Okakura's most important legacy. That honor would go to "The Book of Tea," a now-classic dissertation on traditional Japanese aesthetics that he wrote in 1906. Still, the seaside retreat is the most picturesque of the late scholar's many achievements, as well as the most evocative of his spirit, and it is for these reasons that a profound sadness followed the news that the tsunami of March 11, 2011, had washed it away.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Jul 15, 2012
Better late than never for Japan's first, "slowest" Olympian
Have you heard the one about the Japanese runner who took 54 years to finish the Olympic marathon?
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'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.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
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.

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