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LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 7, 2001
Climb rain forests to the clouds
If you've climbed Mount Kinabalu in Sabah Province, Malaysian Borneo, under the impression that you were heroically scaling the highest peak in Southeast Asia, I have bad news.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 21, 2001
Your Earth needs you! Volunteer now
In honor of the United Nations' decision to declare 2001 "The International Year of Volunteers," our last column devoted itself to an utterly shameless advertisement for the book "Kokusai Volunteer Guide: Inside International Voluntary Work," published by The Japan Times and written by Midori Paxton....
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 7, 2001
Why not join the marine corps?
Welcome to the second week of the second month of the United Nations-designated "International Year of Volunteers." To mark this joyous occasion, we are pleased to announce the release of a book named "Kokusai Volunteer Guido," aka "Inside International Volunteer Work," published by The Japan Times and...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jan 17, 2001
Botswana's delta a force of nature
The Okavango delta (or "the Delta" as it's known by those in the know) is not a swamp, at least not in the conventionally unpleasant sense of the word.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jan 3, 2001
Walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Approaching Machu Picchu on foot along Peru's 32-km Inca Trail might sound the stuff of legend. Or, better still, the stuff of Tin Tin. In all honesty, however, it can be more trial than trail.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 20, 2000
Walking along the edge of civilization
Done the Great Wall of China? Try the Great Wall of England. It's arguably the finest Roman monument north of the Alps.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 6, 2000
Mountain stairways to the sky gods
Time, mankind and Mother Nature have not been kind to the Seven Wonders of the World. Six are gone and most people probably couldn't even name them. According to the Philippines tourist people, however, there is an additional Wonder, and it is in remarkably good shape.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 29, 2000
Exploring deepest, darkest New Jersey
New York is New York, and Manhattan is, 24 hours a day, full throttle, unquestionably, Manhattan. What we wanted after two weeks of both was a place that was neither.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 1, 2000
Be sure to do the Galapagos in style
You can "do" the Galapagos right. Or you can "do" the Galapagos wrong.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 18, 2000
Ghost hunting in York
With Halloween just around the corner this column bravely steps beyond the boundary of nature travel and pops its toes into the chilling twilight realm of "supernature" travel.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 4, 2000
The parochial charm of Carmel
Rough Guide guidebooks are some of the best on the store shelf: thorough, entertaining and with excellent briefings on things historical, political and environmental. By and large we, and the Rough Guides, think alike.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 20, 2000
The flawed forests of Cuc Phuong
As many Americans have no doubt already forgotten, and as some will never forget, Vietnam was visited not just by their flag's red, white and blue but also by Agents Orange, White and Blue; toxic herbicides named after the color of their containers. A total of 72 million poisonous liters were dumped...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 6, 2000
Rolling along through Ngorongoro
The first minutes in Tanzania's famed Ngorongoro crater were neatly summed up by a small boy.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 30, 2000
Skin diving to save the world's coral reefs
Learn to scuba dive free, receive a complimentary education in tropical marine biology, and get to help save the threatened coral reefs of Southeast Asia and Central America at the same time?
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 16, 2000
Of Rubber Ridley and his Gardens
The Gardens: That is how many locals refer to them. Just The Gardens. As if there were no other, as Bonnie Tinsley wrote in "Visions of Delight."
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 2, 2000
Nature bites back in the Everglades
There isn't another river like it anywhere else in the world.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 19, 2000
Nabatean nights of the living dead
"It was truly a strange spectacle -- a city filled with tombs. One would be inclined to think that the former population had no employment which was not connected with death, and that they had all been surprised by death during the performance of some funeral amenities."
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jul 5, 2000
Species hidden in the mist of Tikal
TIKAL, Guatemala -- Early morning, and thin mist licks around the feet of Tikal's towering Mayan temples. It is that haunted time, not quite light, not quite dark, when one feels that the odds of seeing a jaguar padding golden-eyed through the ruins are at their highest.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 21, 2000
Hawaii's fire island a travel hot spot
All the Hawaiian islands are the peaks of submarine volcanoes. Only one island, however, is still volcanically active -- the aptly named Big Island, largest in the 2,400-km-long archipelago and unquestionably the wildest of them all.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 7, 2000
Irrational tomatoes and criminal turnips
What do Abraham Lincoln, Dark Purple Beefsteak, a Giant Belgian and the Earl of Edgecombe have in common?
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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