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Jan 26, 2002

No snow tires allowed in your carry-on

By Amy Chavez

Surely anyone who has tried to fly recently has found themselves mumbling, "Osama bin Ladin, you weenie!"

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE

Jan 26, 2002

By Vivienne Kenrick

Last summer for its "Perspectives" series, CNN presented the documentary film "Exodus," made by Sorious Samura. Sorious, from Sierra Leone, said of that film: "To try and tell a story like this means witnessing tragedy and sometime playing with death. . . . I was never sure we'd return in one piece."...

COMMUNITY

Jan 26, 2002

Still passing on her father's ideals of democracy

By Angela Jeffs

Yukika Soma can't see very well these days. Her eyesight is fine, she says; it's just she has trouble controlling her eyelids. She still comes into her Nagata-cho office three or four days a week at the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation, named after her father, but nowadays a young assistant escorts her...

COMMUNITY

Jan 20, 2002

Tandoori meets takoyaki in Kansai's Little India

By Eric Johnston

KOBE -- The port city of Kobe, with the largest concentration of Americans and Europeans in the Kansai region, a few of whom have lived in Japan since the Taisho Era (1912-1926), has long been known as one of Japan's most Westernized cities.

COMMUNITY

Jan 20, 2002

Japan's homogeneous diversity

By Tony Laszlo

More than one in 100 people residing in Japan is a foreign national -- but not all of them are immigrants or expatriates from overseas. Koreans are the largest foreign ethnic group in Japan, numbering some 635,269 persons (or 37.7 percent) of a foreign population put at around 1.7 million. Many are the...

COMMUNITY

Jan 20, 2002

Kabukicho: where worlds collide

By Mark Schreiber

About 1 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 1, 2001, a fire of undetermined origin swept through the No. 56 Myojo Building in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district, resulting in the deaths of 44 people on the upper two floors. While investigators say they have ruled out arson, stories in the tabloid press continue...

COMMUNITY

Jan 20, 2002

When something Western this way came

By Burritt Sabin

Like a Yankee daimyo, on Nov. 23, 1857, Townsend Harris made a progress to Edo (now Tokyo) from his residence in Shimoda on the Izu Peninsula. Proceeded by an American flag made of Japanese crepe, Harris, on horseback, was escorted by a guard of six whose costumes bore the coat-of-arms of the United...

COMMUNITY

Jan 20, 2002

Living off the record

By Tony Laszlo

"I hereby affirm that the above is the complete list of the members of this household," reads a typical juminhyo (resident registration form). The mayor of the issuing municipality applies the official stamp, and the family's all accounted for.

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COMMUNITY

Jan 19, 2002

By changing our thinking we can change the world

By Angela Jeffs

I make no apology for introducing Azzah a second time around, even though I made a ideological promise 15 years ago never to repeat an interview. As someone who has benefited enormously from her help (i.e. loosened up, become more flexible), I believe everyone should have the chance to experience her...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE

Jan 19, 2002

By Vivienne Kenrick

His potted biography as it appeared last year in a theater program reads: "Paul Lucas has been eight years in Tokyo, doing all this 'drama stuff.' A Seattle native, and consequently a Starbuck's addict, Paul has been 'doing' Tokyo's Starbuck's a lot lately to learn his lines. Once in a while his portable...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE

Jan 19, 2002

By Amy Chavez

Traveler A: For my winter vacation, I tried to join the "Around the World in 60 Minutes" campaign tour but lost the lottery. So I booked a different package tour: five days and three nights in Thailand and Cambodia. The package included airfare, hotel and some meals.

COMMUNITY

Jan 13, 2002

Tsukiji fish market: As fresh as it gets

By Robbie Swinnerton

As you would expect, there are plenty of fish restaurants in Tsukiji, both inside the wholesale market and also in the narrow streets that surround it. The rows of simple, hole-in-the-wall eateries in the very heart of the market cater primarily to the early-rising market workers who are already finishing...

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.

A boom for business tourism in Japan?

By Kathryn Wortley

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