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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE

Oct 25, 2003

I am Eiimi: a beautiful, excellent twig!

By Amy Chavez

As promised, today I will translate names of foreigners into Japanese to reveal their true meanings. Since I did male names last time, I'll do female names this week. However, I decided to highlight famous women in order that we might find out a little more about them than we would ordinarily be allowed...

COMMUNITY

Oct 25, 2003

Palette mixes people of every color and capacity

By Angela Jeffs

Naoko Taniguchi is a pioneer in bringing mentally handicapped individuals into the community. Thirty years ago, when she began volunteer activities, families still regarded the disabled as a source of shame. She says the situation is improving, "though there will be no major shift until companies hire...

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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST

Oct 21, 2003

Japan still bazaar for the bizarre

By Geoff Botting

It's not news that Japan is a vast emporium for some of the weirdest products ever retailed on the planet. We've all read the stories about high-tech toilet seats, used schoolgirls' underwear, million-yen pet beetles, canned whale blubber, and so on.

COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES

Oct 21, 2003

Internet bill nightmare, pension payouts, and singing groups

By Ken Joseph Jr.

Internet connection I have a problem that concerns with my Internet Service Provider. I was billed for over 100,000 yen for Internet connection and international calls. Most of the bill came from international phone calls, which I thought were free.

COMMUNITY

Oct 19, 2003

By Eric Prideaux

On a recent Saturday, some 80 delegates from the National Union of General Workers, Tokyo South, trudged through cold rain to gather at a conference hall near Mount Fuji for their annual meeting. Greetings were kept brief and to the point. After all, with the sour economy putting such pressure on unions,...

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COMMUNITY

Oct 19, 2003

Diamond exhibit is a real sparkler

By Masami Ito

The diamond is a symbol of love, wealth and power. Down the centuries, this precious stone has been adored by the rich and powerful -- among them empresses such as Catherine the Great of Russia and Elisabeth of Austria. Now the general public has the opportunity to get a little closer to the treasures...

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COMMUNITY

Oct 19, 2003

A timeline of protest in Japanese history

By Eric Prideaux

Japanese labor is today characterized by "enterprise unions," company-by-company groupings that account for almost all of the country's labor organizations. Lacking the militancy of their forebears, these unions are credited by some with enabling Japan's postwar economic boom but blamed by others for...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE

Oct 18, 2003

By Vivienne Kenrick

The Mori Art Museum, an integral part of the Mori Arts Center, occupies space on the top five floors of the 53-story Roppongi Hills Tower, Tokyo. The Mori aim is to have the new Mori Art Museum "become a major feature in the cultural landscapes of Tokyo, Japan, Asia and the world." Over the last 18 months,...

COMMUNITY

Oct 18, 2003

Archaeologist turns west to save Siberian culture

By Angela Jeffs

Kazuo Morimoto made history in the early 1980s when he discovered a large Paleolithic site at Narita, north of Tokyo. Now his attention is balanced between digging up the past and preserving the future -- the future of a once-nomadic tribe in Siberia.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

Oct 18, 2003

The stress of getting things right

By Thomas Dillon

If you're like me, one thing you do not need is more stress.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE

Oct 18, 2003

Your fortune through name translation

By Amy Chavez

Look at any list of foreign names written in "katakana" and you'll see that people's true names -- their identities -- are hidden behind unrecognizable clods of katakana. The name "Tim," for example, becomes "chee-moo." But by looking at the possible combined meanings of katakana spellings in Japanese...

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COMMUNITY

Oct 12, 2003

Livin' la vida loca

By Victoria James

Charles Darwin must have been a regular at whatever passed for a bar on the HMS Beagle. During the ship's five-week stop at the Galapagos, the scientific superstar-to-be got his kicks from riding the trunk-size tortoises that give the islands their name -- galapago is Spanish for "saddle." Despite the...

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.

Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go

By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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