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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Oct 3, 2003

Luxor: Pride of Italy, transplanted

By Robbie Swinnerton

You eat better at Italian restaurants in Tokyo than you do in Italy. A preposterous statement of unreconstructed chauvinism? An urban myth propagated by a few disgruntled tourists ripped off in Rimini? No, that is the considered opinion of a growing number of people familiar with both countries and their...

LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL

Oct 2, 2003

When American values get a woman's mind cooking

By Kaori Shoji

My brother has plunged into this deep gloom. It's his girlfriend, naturally. He's taken to calling me three times a week, genuinely perplexed and begging me to tell him why the romance is gone. He's my brother and I love him, but honestly, like most Japanese men the guy does not have a clue. I can tell...

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LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL

Oct 2, 2003

"The House of Windjammer," "Boolar's Big Day Out"

By Payal Kapadia

"The House of Windjammer," V.A. Richardson, Bloomsbury; 2003; 349 pp. No matter where you grow up, whether it's in 21st-century Japan or in 17th-century Europe, some things never change. People everywhere, at every time, are at the mercy of larger forces -- political upheavals, market fluctuations,...

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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Sep 26, 2003

Tama: Pour a libation to summer's end at a stylish washoku hideaway

By Robbie Swinnerton

At last that spell of late summer heat has broken. At last we can generate something approximating an appetite. And -- all praise to the gods of zymurgy -- at last the first of the fresh-season sake is starting to arrive on the shelves and menus of our favorite ryoriya (restaurants) and izakaya.

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LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE

Sep 25, 2003

When the grass is greener on the other side

By Alice Gordenker

I was starting a load of laundry, my son's dirty trousers in hand, when I sensed something was wrong. I couldn't put my finger on what was troubling me. I held up my kid's khakis, looking for a clue. It wasn't that his pants were filthy. They are always filthy. It wasn't that they were full of holes....

LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME

Sep 25, 2003

Worth fighting for

By Steven L. Kent

Most "greatest hits" games are too familiar. They were great when they came out last Christmas and everybody bought them, but now they're simply old.

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LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND

Sep 19, 2003

Secret treasures of southern Sonoma

By William & Melanie Campbell-Drane

The sensual impact of a vacation in the wine country is hard to beat. Hot days, cold nights, good food and meandering drives under blue skies between vineyards and wineries that range from the manicured to the seemingly long-ago abandoned.

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LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL

Sep 19, 2003

The facets and the faults

By Midori Paxton and Hugh

Morning dawns to the background crash and suck of the Indian Ocean's waves breaking into scuds of foam on the beach. Sunlight bathes the bedroom; there is bird song audible from the hotel's tropical garden, and I draw back the lace curtains ready to inhale Sri Lanka's heady mix of sea salt, heat and...

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LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL

Sep 18, 2003

"Ruby Holler," "The Robodog Superhero"

By Payal Kapadia

"Ruby Holler," Sharon Creech, Bloomsbury; 2002, 310 pp. How do you reform a pair of 13-year-old twins who spend every spare moment breaking, spilling, throwing or dropping things -- and cursing loudly when they're caught?

LIFE / Language / KANJI CLINIC

Sep 18, 2003

A trove of kanji-learning treasure in cyberspace

By Mary Sisk Noguchi

Vacation is over and kanji learners at schools around the planet are once again cracking the books. Increasingly, they and their teachers -- as well as self-directed English-speaking kanji learners of all ages -- are supplementing paper-based publications with online learning resources. Today, Kanji...

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LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW

Sep 18, 2003

Step this way, pilgrim

By Sumiko Enbutsu

This 1830s woodblock print by Edo Period artist Hasegawa Settan depicts the grand view of a temple on a wooded hill with a low-lying town in the foreground and peaceful Edo Bay in the distance. The picture is actually the right half of a sweeping landscape depicting Hommon-ji, an enormously popular Buddhist...

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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Sep 12, 2003

Water Grill Oyster Bar: 'R' you ready to crack open oyster season?

By Robbie Swinnerton

Rules are made to be broken. Change is the only constant. Culture is porous and tradition must be fluid. These are the guiding principles for all life. How can they not apply to what and how we eat?

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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The celebrated artist ‘updating’ the kimono

The celebrated artist ‘updating’ the kimono

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