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Masaru Fujimoto
Features
Dec 11, 2005
Discordant history mars neighbors' friendship overtures
Japanese actress Yoshino Kimura was the lone main guest at the Chuo Kokaido Hall in Osaka in October. She appeared without her Korean counterpart in the opening ceremony to celebrate this year's 40th anniversary of the 1965 Japan-South Korean Treaty that normalized Tokyo-Seoul relations.
Japan Times
Features
Mar 13, 2005
'The executioner of Tokyo'
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay is without doubt one of the most controversial military commanders in U.S. history. Dubbed the "father of the U.S. Strategic Air Command" (SAC) and an icon of the U.S. Air Force, Le May is also known as a belligerent Cold War warrior who provided the template for the warmongering,...
Japan Times
Features
Mar 13, 2005
'Scorched and boiled and baked to death'
Kayo-chan was in the fifth grade when the Great Tokyo Air Raid took the lives of her parents, her grandparents and two of her brothers -- along with some 100,000 other people -- as World War II was drawing to its end.
Japan Times
Features
Feb 8, 2004
For better or worse
Exactly 100 years ago this week, Japan embarked on its first war with a major Western power. Though Emperor Meiji's forces scored a technical knockout the following year, the outcome was to shape Japan's destiny through to the A-bombs and beyond
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 10, 2003
Treasures too much for one
For one man alone, the Tokugawa treasures were simply too much to handle.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 10, 2003
EDO: City spirit of an era
Whether it's the floating world of ukiyo-e, the stately rites of sumo, the meticulous craft of netsuke, the minimalist art of Japanese gardens or the decorums of the samurai, what we today regard as the traditional values of Japan took shape in what's known as the Edo Period.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 1, 2003
Prodigy foiled in U.S. quest
A U.S. Navy officer was strolling down a deserted street in the town of Shimoda, late on the evening of April 24, 1854, when he ran into two well-dressed young Japanese who handed him a letter in Japanese. The previous month, Commodore Matthew Perry had completed his mission to have Japan sign a treaty...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 1, 2003
Black Ships of 'shock and awe'
Whatever Washington would have the world think, many people will only ever believe that the recent U.S. invasion of Iraq was for oil. However, U.S. power diplomacy of the Bush administration's "neoconservative" type is neither a new phenomenon, nor one confined to the Muslim Middle East.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 1, 2003
Shipwrecked Russians lived to tell an epic tale
With the Crimean War brewing in the eastern Mediterranean between Russia and an alliance of Turkey, Britain and France, a small Russian fleet of four ships commanded by Rear-Admiral Efimi Vasilievich Putiatin sailed into Nagasaki just a few weeks after U.S. Commadore Matthew Perry's "Black Ships" left...
COMMUNITY
May 4, 2003
Volleys that rang the death knell of an age
Oda Nobunaga is known as the man who dragged Japan out of its blood-soaked medieval past and cleared the way for the 264-year Tokugawa Shogunate to follow. This he achieved by dint of his advanced grasp of military strategy -- and especially by being the first to realize the deadly potential of firearms....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 16, 2003
Weapon of wonder: The craft of katana and the art of killing
Yokota, at the foot of Mount Sentsuzan in the Izumo region of Shimane Prefecture, is home to one of Japan's best-known mythological tales.
COMMUNITY
Feb 2, 2003
A crazed genius shining in the light of new learning
Sugita Genpaku was well-known for his broad social network, which owed much to his easygoing nature. One of his more unusual friends, however, was Hiraga Gen'nai -- dubbed Japan's answer to Leonardo da Vinci.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 2, 2003
How the 'modern' code was cracked
The headless body of a woman in her 50s was laid on a straw mat inside a hut at Kotsukahara in Edo's Senju area. Born in Kyoto and nicknamed "Aochababa," sketchy court records indicate the woman had been convicted of killing her adopted children. She had been executed by beheading that very morning,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 2, 2003
Parties to a revolution
An odd Edo Period drawing is kept at Waseda University Library in Tokyo. A designated important cultural asset, it shows 29 Japanese men wining and dining around three tables as they celebrate New Year's in 1795. Some hold wine glasses, others chat over what appear to be Western dishes. On the wall is...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 15, 2002
Chushingura Chushingura
Snow has been the backdrop to some of Tokyo's most colorful and epoch-making events.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 15, 2002
On the margins of legend
Like many other legends, the tale of the 47 ronin has behind its bare historical facts several fascinating anecdotes. Here are some of the lesser-known aspects surrounding Japan's classic vendetta.
COMMUNITY
Sep 15, 2002
Fight for the future
In a room at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Tokyo's Akasaka, Prussian Military Adviser Klemens Meckel studied a map showing the disposition of forces before the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 28, 2002
Stop the presses
At 7 p.m. on Oct. 11, 1946, it was quiet in The Japan Times newsroom in central Tokyo. The deadline for the next day's first edition had passed, and day-shift editors were ready to pack up and leave. Then, with no prior warning, a surprise visitor appeared in their midst.
COMMUNITY
Mar 31, 2002
The horror from the heart of darkness
It was a rough drive to the Cambodian town of Takeo in 1992. Going faster than 30 kph would have been suicidal. National Highway 2 was an unsurfaced dirt road pockmarked with craters from shells and land mines. Takeo, about 60 km south of the capital Phnom Penh, served as a base that year for an engineering...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 3, 2002
The complete angler
Although casting a line in a perfect midair loop may take a few years to master, you don't need to be a magician to catch the first trout of your life. All you need is a few 10,000 yen bills to spare for a starter kit.
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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