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Midori Paxton
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 8, 2002
Nature's poster-bear on the brink
No animal, with the possible exceptions of the dolphin and the whale, has won more hearts and minds for the cause of wildlife conservation than the giant panda.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 24, 2002
A cape designed by God with wine in mind
Rule No. 1 for a Cape Wine Route tour is: Find someone else to do the driving.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 10, 2002
Studying Sri Lanka's simian soap opera
Scientists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Ga., are sewing the eyelids of infant primates shut to see how that affects their behavior. At the New England Regional Primate Research Center, a database is maintained of self-inflicted wounds -- fingers bitten off, holes chewed...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 10, 2002
Studying Sri Lanka's simian soap opera
Scientists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Ga., are sewing the eyelids of infant primates shut to see how that affects their behavior. At the New England Regional Primate Research Center, a database is maintained of self-inflicted wounds -- fingers bitten off, holes chewed...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 27, 2002
A rainy spell, and a desert blooms
For much of the year, most of Namaqualand is hot, dry, dusty and all but dead.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 27, 2002
A rainy spell, and a desert blooms
For much of the year, most of Namaqualand is hot, dry, dusty and all but dead.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 6, 2002
Pick a Palau isle and call it your own
The boat is fueled. Frosted beer bottles glint in the ice boxes. The provisions are stashed, and we are about to go and find ourselves our very own desert island.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 23, 2002
Two Crocodile Dundees find a wild world in South Africa
The reeds ripple. There is a throaty, menacing, hiss.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 23, 2002
Two Crocodile Dundees find a wild world in South Africa
The reeds ripple. There is a throaty, menacing, hiss.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 9, 2002
Chengdu, Sichuan's city of contrasts
Tonight, our guide Desmond assures us, there is going to be "a very exciting party." The Tibetans are planning a neck-wrestling competition. And you, Desmond adds, as the first foreigners to visit the newly opened hall of Tibetan games and dance, are going to be invited to participate.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 9, 2002
Chengdu, Sichuan's city of contrasts
Tonight, our guide Desmond assures us, there is going to be "a very exciting party." The Tibetans are planning a neck-wrestling competition. And you, Desmond adds, as the first foreigners to visit the newly opened hall of Tibetan games and dance, are going to be invited to participate.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 25, 2002
The monks and the markets of Mandalay
The Ayeryarwady flows smooth as oil, dark as coffee, wide but shallow, with occasional ripples and tucks where the sandbars nudge the surface. There is none of the hectic frenzy of river traffic that smothers many of Asia's great waterways in fumes and oil slicks -- Myanmar moves to a different rhythm,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 11, 2002
On the pagoda path of the Irrawaddy
"On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay." -- Rudyard Kipling.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
May 28, 2002
On the front lines of bird conservation
It may say as much about the status of politicians as it does about that of birds, but one of the more striking demographic statistics to emerge from the United Kingdom is this: There are currently more members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds than there are members of all British political...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
May 6, 2002
A safari of jungle trails, animal tales
As readers of our last column know already, we are currently floating gently down the Lower Zambezi in canoes. And though it might sound recklessly intrepid, it's really a piece of cake.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Apr 23, 2002
Thrills (but no spills) canoeing the Zambezi
"This isn't a car document," the customs official says, his forehead creased in suspicion.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Apr 9, 2002
Biblical reserve echoes Noah's 'two by two'
A visit to Israel is probably not high on your list of tourism priorities at the moment, but should the situation calm down and the killings and fighting stop, here's one to consider: The Biblical Wildlife Reserve of Hai-Bar Yotvata.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Apr 9, 2002
Biblical reserve echoes Noah's 'two by two'
A visit to Israel is probably not high on your list of tourism priorities at the moment, but should the situation calm down and the killings and fighting stop, here's one to consider: The Biblical Wildlife Reserve of Hai-Bar Yotvata.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 12, 2002
Fairy-tale castles dreamt up by a mad king
King Ludwig II (1845-1886), absolute ruler of Bavaria, had his little ways.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 26, 2002
Beauty in the land of blood and bones
Angola is not a tourist destination for the faint-hearted. In fact, it's probably fair to say that it's not a tourist destination at all. Period.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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