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Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 4, 2008
Alien exhibition lands in Odaiba
Are we the only intelligent life in the vast universe?
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 21, 2008
Anime universe shifts to Tokyo
Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008, one of the world's largest animation conventions, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from March 27 to 30.
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 20, 2008
Are Japan's leaders merely readers on climate change?
Japanese people often wrongly pronounce "l" as "r," or "r" as "l." So, "leader" can be pronounced as "reader."
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 14, 2008
22nd Kurashiki Music Festival fetes choice ensembles
The Kurashiki Music Festival, with concerts featuring a wide range of music, will be held in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, from March 15 to 23.
Japan Times
LIFE / COSPLAY CULTURE
Mar 9, 2008
Business booms as Japanese subculture soars
The last two decades have seen kosupure ("cosplay," or "costume play") blossoming from being a local Japanese subculture to a thriving worldwide trend — and business.
Japan Times
LIFE / COSPLAY CULTURE
Mar 9, 2008
Fashion fantasies come to life in cosplay
Silver wig, blue contact lenses, a mock sword and a (kind of) knight's costume.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Mum fights nuke power
Yurika Ayukawa, the special adviser on climate change to the environmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature Japan (WWF Japan), believes the key to combating global warming lies in changing humans' means of generating energy.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Mother of 2 leads the way
Izumi Washitani is not only a professor of conservation ecology at the top-flight University of Tokyo, she's also a committed activist who applies her studies to restoring threatened biodiversity.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2008
Japan's 'pouch curry' turns a tasty 40
Fancy a feast? Un petit peu du foie gras, perchance? A slice or three of the finest Aberdeen Angus roast beef, if you will — with lashings of horseradish, sans doute. Or, drop a plastic pouch of curry into boiling water, wait for 3 minutes, pour it over rice and — voila! — you have a meal fit for...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 8, 2008
Elias in homage
Brazilian jazz pianist and vocalist Eliane Elias will perform songs from her latest album, "Something for You: Eliane Elias Sings and Plays Bill Evans," when she visits Tokyo this month.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 18, 2008
Quilters keep the Tokyo Dome all sewn up
Here's an event that's ripe for a bit of blanket coverage — The Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2008. At the annual event — subtitled "Fabric, Needles and Thread Exhibition" — hundreds of quilts from Japan and overseas will be exhibited.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jan 13, 2008
Shimmying to fitness in South Seas style
Their hips swathed in tight, colorful skirts, and their shoulders bare above tight tube tops, about 30 women shimmy and shake sexily to fast, powerful drum rhythms and the cheerful melody of Tahitian banjo.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 11, 2008
Find a warm glow in the Niigata snow
Villagers in Niigata rebuilding after a 2004 earthquake need your help to survive heavy snowfall this winter. Volunteers to help remove snow from houses and roads in Niigata Prefecture are being recruited by JEN, an international NGO based in Tokyo.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 4, 2008
Doggy style hits the Tokyo catwalk
New Year Dog Party, a festive treat for canines and canine-lovers, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight on Jan. 12 and 13.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2006
New rules to doom used electrical goods shops?
The phones at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have been ringing off the hook since early February when it suddenly and quietly changed its enforcement of a 2001 law on electrical appliance safety.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Mar 19, 2006
Creative expression is the need of their souls
Reciting in a rap rhythm, a young man read his poem in a low, strong voice as 10 others around him listened intently.
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2006
Toyota launches first Lexus hybrid engine-equipped
Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday unveiled the Lexus GS450h, the first hybrid in the luxury sedan's lineup.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2006
Architect group to offer directory of highly trained members
A nationwide organization of architects will publicize later this month the names and addresses of architects who have taken training courses on the latest technologies and construction regulations, the group said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2006
Another architect fakes design strength
Five Sapporo condominium complexes have been confirmed to have been built with faked earthquake-resistance data, the land ministry said Tuesday, and the city is investigating 28 more buildings the architect who compiled the data has said are not sufficiently quake-proof.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2006
Strife-ridden JAL removes Shinmachi from its helm
Japan Airlines Corp. announced Wednesday that JAL President Toshiyuki Shinmachi will be relieved of his post and be replaced by Senior Vice President Haruka Nishimatsu.
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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