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Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 13, 2003
The Cumbrian sense of fair play
For most of the year, Appleby is a sleepy little English market-town in eastern Cumbria, not that far from the Scottish border. Surrounded by green fields spotted with sheep, Appleby is dominated by a castle that overlooks a gently sloping high street flanked by small shops. It has lots of benches with...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 29, 2003
Catching the Paris underground
Call us weird, but we've always wanted to explore the sewers of Paris. Perhaps the urge was sparked by Victor Hugo's ghastly descriptions of the fetid underworld in "Les Miserables." Or maybe the image of the "Phantom of the Opera" was responsible: a masked maniac poling about in a gondola in his own...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 15, 2003
Life, in 22 million forms, in a bottle
Goggling out of its jar with dead, bulbous eyes, stained a ghastly yellow by its embalming alcohol, is a mutated octopus. Just behind it is another octopus, also in a jar. To its left is a bottled shoal of sea bass.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 1, 2003
The desert domain where the rhinos rule
Last of two parts We are in the Kunene wilderness region of northwest Namibia, with former F-1 star Ukyo Katayama, an NHK documentary team, a bunch of bloody-minded camels, several battered off-road vehicles, about 50 local tribesmen and Namibian wildlife artist Blythe Loutit, founder of The Save the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
May 18, 2003
The fall and rise of rhinoceros
First of two parts Some years ago, the English adventurer Benedict Allen made the first solo crossing of the notoriously inhospitable but hauntingly beautiful Sand Dune Sea and the Kunene wilderness area of Namibia, in southwest Africa.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
May 4, 2003
A glimmer of what lies beneath
It used to be called the Street of Ink. Before that it was known as the River Fleet, mainly because that's what it was: the River Fleet. It even spent a period as London's Grand Canal -- something to rival the Venetian version, a grand urban waterway full of jostling pleasure boats and barges.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Apr 20, 2003
Look what the tide brought in
Venice Beach, Fla., and the sun is hot and strong. Most tourists are simply lounging on the sand turning various shades of furious red or "Baywatch" bronze. A few are chucking Frisbees or checking out the babes.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Apr 6, 2003
Like no other country on earth
"Bom . . . bash . . . bom . . . bash . . ." The savage thud of big drums echoed off the alley walls, shook the cobbles and rattled the wonky Belgian shutters.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 16, 2003
Prison for some, refuge for others
Second of two parts Robben Island is more than a world-famous symbol of racial reconciliation. On the insistence of Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned here for 18 years, Robben is also "a monument to [ecological] preservation."
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 2, 2003
Robben Island's living ghosts
First of two parts The history of Robben Island is so dense with incident, tragedy, hope and despair that you can almost touch it. You can almost hear the ghosts and the slamming of prison doors.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 16, 2003
The turbulent isles are tranquil at last
Last of two parts Despite its appearance of timeless peace and tranquillity, the Seychelles has a turbulent history. Originally discovered by the Dutch, this remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean rapidly became a haunt of pirates.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 2, 2003
Sexuality takes a suggestive form in Eden
First of two parts The Vallee de Mai, on Praslin Island, the second-largest island in the Seychelles archipelago, is a heavenly spot. But for some, it is also a glimpse of hell or, as Milton put it, "Paradise Lost."
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jan 19, 2003
Paradise retained
Palawan is variously cited as the Philippines' "last frontier," "the world's best-kept secret" and "a nature-lover's dream."
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jan 5, 2003
From prison to grave -- via voodoo
There's more to Zanzibar than Zanzibar Island. There are the other Zanzibar islands!
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 22, 2002
Historic Zanzibar, as exotic as it sounds
First of two parts Zanzibar! Just eight letters, but what a wealth of romance they sum up!
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 22, 2002
Historic Zanzibar, as exotic as it sounds
First of two parts Zanzibar! Just eight letters, but what a wealth of romance they sum up!
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 8, 2002
Swiftlets threatened by bowls of soup
Entering a Borneo emporium in 1922, American missionary Elizabeth Mershon noted that "many strange and evil-smelling articles greet the eye and the nose."
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 19, 2002
Seeking spiritual succah in the Negev desert
The largest natural crater in the world has a past almost as awe-inspiring as its present.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 5, 2002
Trapped in a cold tent by a strong wind outside
As readers may recall, our last Halloween horror story left us in Chobe national park, Botswana. Not the northern part of Chobe: the part with easy access, good roads, fantastic riverbank campsites and glorious views over the game-rich flood plain to the distant forests of Namibia. No. That would have...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 22, 2002
Bogged in Botswana's mudholes
It is traditional for this column to supply a Nature Travel horror story as close to Halloween as scheduling permits. Halloween is still some time away. But this one's most definitely a two-part column. So forgive us for starting early.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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