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Raju Thakrar
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Jul 30, 2008
Waribashi: Waste on a gluttonous scale
I f I were writing about one of my favorite Tokyo eateries for the JT's Food Page, this story would mostly focus on its delicious fare. However, as this is the Nature Page, my verbal meanderings here are not about the nosh at cheap and cheerful Shokudo Shogetsu in Tamachi, but about the tools used to...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jul 20, 2008
Fly fanboys in the living room
Parents the world over would surely prefer their children not to throw things about. It's just plain bad manners, among other things. But Atsushi Kikuchi, a serious-looking father of two boys, positively encourages it. And, he evenmaintains, his sons' ballistic behavior has produced considerable benefits...
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 22, 2008
Grounded rulers of the sky
His sharp, calm gaze follows yet another aircraft swooping down from the cloudless sky, its tires screeching in clouds of blue smoke as it returns to Earth on Haneda's concrete runway. One more flight successfully completed, he thinks — and now the next.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / WEEK 3
Jun 15, 2008
Get into golf's virtual swing
Considering that people can be prosecuted for driving a car under the influence of alcohol, what about those who go hitting golf balls while imbibing? Perhaps it's just a matter of time before "drink-driving" by golfers becomes the latest buzzword on the greens and fairways in safety-conscious Japan....
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 6, 2008
Star-studded cast imparts sparkle to Verdi spectacular
The New National Theatre Tokyo is currently staging the opera "La Traviata" for the first time in four years. Renowned Japanese conductor Toshiyuki Kamioka, making his first-ever appearance at the NNT, will lead a cast peppered with world-famous singers.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
May 18, 2008
Handsome is not enough: beauticians make the man
Perhaps no words send shivers down a company employee's back more than when your boss gravely tells you that he'd "like to have a chat with you." So, when mine at the English-language conversation school that I was teaching at said this to me a few years ago, my heart sank to the ground.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 9, 2008
'Hamlet' production does not leave the question unanswered
From next week, the International Theatre Company London will be in Japan, conducting its 30th tour of the country with a production of "Hamlet."
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 27, 2008
Bestowing beauty on a fearful blade
If you were to call 51-year-old Yoshihiko Usuki a makeover maestro, he'd probably just chuckle, go back to his hunched position and continue sliding the sword clasped in his hands over a polishing stone.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 27, 2008
Musashi: A do-or-die warrior not to be crossed
When he killed his first man, Miyamoto Musashi was a mere boy of 13 — in present-day terms, a first-year junior-high-school student.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 27, 2008
Deadly weapons forged as art
The slow, rhythmic thrust of a piston covered in tanuki (raccoon dog) skin blasted air from box bellows onto the searing-hot charcoal. A casual glance at his forge was, however, all that Yoshindo Yoshihara needed to know the fire's exact temperature.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 27, 2008
Hack, slash and hew — all with Zen in mind
As hobbies go, you might describe mine as, well, quite bloodthirsty.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Mar 16, 2008
Seeing is disbelieving
One, two, skip. Three, four, jump. Five, six, do a back flip. Seven, eight, now break dance.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 7, 2008
Change the channel of your sexual energy
The ancient Chinese practice of Taoism tells us that "sexual energy is not just about sex!"
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 22, 2008
Laugh yourself healthy
'I want to open 1 million laughter clubs around the world in the next 10 years in the hope of bringing about world peace."
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 15, 2008
Tokyo Players bring N.Y. comedy to town
The dearth of good comedy in English in Tokyo will be relieved in a few weeks' time, when Tokyo International Players — a 100-percent volunteer-run company that has been entertaining theatergoers since 1896 — will present "The Plaza Suite" at Akasaka V Theater. And The Japan Times has a pair of tickets...
Japan Times
LIFE
Jan 13, 2008
Let loose nature's way to tone body and soul
Ha-ha, funny isn't it, but Laughter Yoga has nothing to do with telling jokes. In fact, humor plays no part in this unusual form of the ancient Hindu discipline. Here, laughter has to be unconditional.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 4, 2008
Young artists kick off 2008
Budding artists need to be given a chance to show the world what they have got. Design Festa offers just this. Ever since it started in 1994, this twice-yearly event has been open to artists from all over the world to exhibit their talent.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Dec 2, 2007
Dalai Lama: Ocean of wit and wisdoms
Lhamo Thondup was born on July 6, 1935 in Taktster, a small village in the Amdo region of northeast Tibet. But neither his parents — farmers who grew barley, buckwheat and potatoes — nor his three elder brothers and one elder sister (a younger sister and brother came later) were to discover his true...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 23, 2007
Plight of Tibetan orphans
"Open Your Heart," a charity exhibition that includes photos from Tibet, France and Japan, will take place in Kamakura from Dec. 1 to 9 to aid the plight of Tibetan orphans. The exhibition opens with a musical event featuring Tibetan dancers, a biwa (Japanese lute) performer and a chanson singer. Profits...
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2007
Dalai Lama hits East's consumer craze
The Dalai Lama indicated Monday in an interview that he had set a budding democratic process in motion in Tibet that was effectively doomed by China's invasion in the early 1950s.
Japan’s 2024 buzzword of the year urges a reevaluation of past norms
Sadao Abe, who played the role of a time-traveling Showa Era teacher transported to present day in a popular TV drama, receives the 2024 buzzword of the year award for the word "futehodo," the nickname of the series.
Princess Aiko, only child of emperor, turns 23
Princess Aiko on Nov. 22 ahead of her 23rd birthday on Sunday at the Imperial Palace
Ishiba questioned on political reform, social issues and the economy
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks in the Lower House in Tokyo on Monday.
Nearly 90% in Japan and China have negative views of other
Chinese people's sentiment toward Japan is believed to be impacted by their use of social media platforms such as Weibo and Douyin, as well as whether they have visited Japan.
Bear that attacked Akita supermarket employee captured
A brown bear in Hokkaido. In the city of Akita, a bear that attacked a supermarket employee over the weekend was captured in a box trap on Monday morning.
Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service. 
Don’t worry, you can still use your Japan health insurance card — for now
A My Number card reader at a pediatric clinic in Tokyo. While the government will stop issuing new health insurance cards on Monday, most people will remain unaffected by the move in the short term as existing health insurance cards can still be used for another year.
The Geisha bean is the leading lady of Tokyo's coffee scene
Discovered in the 1930s, the Geisha coffee plant came to worldwide fame in the early 2000s and now represents some of the best coffee on the planet — Tokyo's top cafes included.

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