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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / RENDEZVOUS

Dec 24, 2000

By Jane Rees

MERRY CHRISTMAS . . . MERRY CHRISTMAS . . . MERRY CHRISTMAS . . . Have a great day. And the best is yet to come for Japan, with the unique welcoming of the new year -- a festival that can take as long as two weeks or a shorter period of about five days, beginning with what westerners call New Year's...

COMMUNITY

Dec 24, 2000

The miraculous manifestation of a man of the cloth at Xmas

By Angela Jeffs

T'was 10 days before Christmas, and all through the house . . . complete and utter panic! Who to interview for Christmas Eve? Jim Carey (promoting his seasonal movie "The Grinch") has come and gone -- along with most of the foreign community (for the holiday break). As for the Japanese, they are all...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE

Dec 24, 2000

Roll up your sleeve when Lance comes calling

By Amy Chavez

Hospitals come and go -- especially on our island. You can always tell when the hospital comes because it's a large mobile contraption that rolls off the ferry. When it's time to go, it rolls back onto the ferry and you can wave goodbye to the hospital as it goes back out to sea. It's basically a big...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE

Dec 24, 2000

Jazzchor Freiburg

By Vivienne Kenrick

Germany's award-winning, unconventional 25-member Jazzchor Freiburg recently made its second tour of Japan. The choir is characterized by unpredictability, as its founder-conductor believes it is boring for audiences to know what is coming next. He throws into a typical concert as much variety as he...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

Dec 20, 2000

Jingle bills and other ghosts of Christmas past and present

By Thomas Dillon

There is a hereditary disease that stalks each member of my family. Even now I can feel it ticking maliciously through my bones, fully aware there is nothing I can do to stop it. Sooner or later it is going to strike.

COMMUNITY

Dec 18, 2000

Japan Prize winners picked for science

Two scientists from the United States and Canada have been named winners of this year's Japan Prize for their contributions to the development of environmentally sound materials and to marine biology.

COMMUNITY

Dec 17, 2000

Naturalist issues guide to Tokyo wildlife

By Angela Jeffs

Kevin Short leads two quite distinct lives. In California, he is a husband and father, with a home, a dog and three cars. In Japan -- based in Chiba -- he is a natural history writer and environmental consultant, involved with fieldwork, writing, botanical illustration and lectures, and leading secret...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE

Dec 17, 2000

All I want for Christmas is some cud to chew

By Amy Chavez

Since Japan has finally started to perform organ transplants, I can finally ask Santa for what I've always wanted -- an organ. And no, I don't mean a sex change. The organ I want happens to belong to a cow. And no, I don't mean the udder. What I'd like from a cow is something that would make my life...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE

Dec 17, 2000

By Vivienne Kenrick

The Fourth International Symposium on Basic Approach to Allergic Rhinitis will be held in Tokyo on Feb. 10 and 11. Its central theme, "allergy -- from the nose to the lung," is to focus on the impact and relation of allergic rhinitis and asthma. President of the Fourth ISBAAR and a founder of the series...

COMMUNITY

Dec 14, 2000

Network crusades for dogs in distress

By Barbara Bayer

If the pope were to visit Yokohama, he would have to consider Kiyoto Kitaura for sainthood, for the modern-day St. Francis is nothing short of a godsend to animals in need.

COMMUNITY

Dec 14, 2000

Pyrotechnic artists reach for the sky in international contest

By Kazuma Saeki

"Sky Concert: The World Fireworks Grand Prix," an international fireworks competition which took place last month in Yokohama, was a rare opportunity to view cutting-edge displays from some of the world's best pyrotechnic artists.

COMMUNITY

Dec 13, 2000

Unlocking secrets of the original Marseille Tarot

By Beth Lindsay

Tarot cards can be found in the game sections of toy shops, and there are hundreds of different decks. But Tarot is an ancient tradition, says tarot master Philippe Camoin, and the philosophy behind the cards is a powerful tool for awakening intelligence.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

It's back to the classroom for some residents as municipal governments across the country conduct lessons to learn how to use new technologies.

Can aging Japan go digital without leaving anyone behind?

By Tomoko Otake

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