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COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
May 29, 2012

Your haiku: the good, the bad and the ugly of Japan

The following are the winners of the haiku competition launched to mark the Community section's 10th anniversary. The five recipients of the top prize, a copy of Debito Arudou and Akira Higuchi's "Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants," are marked by an asterisk. Other winners will receive...
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ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
May 27, 2012

Rolling around Sendagi

The Yanesen district of central Tokyo, whose name features bits of the names of the three neighborhoods it comprises (Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi), charms visitors with its temple-studded streets, craft shops and prewar architecture. Oddly, though, maps in either Japanese or English rarely guide visitors...
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 18, 2012

Dancer to honor late artist who balked at death

Shusaku Arakawa (1936-2010) was an enigmatic man. The late Japan-born, New York-based artist and his partner, Madeline Gins, once jointly declared they had decided "not to die," and even added that it was "immoral" for people to have to die. Based on their philosophy, the two created a series of houses...
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 18, 2012

Hyatt Regency Kyoto cooking classes

The Hyatt Regency Kyoto is again offering its popular small-group cooking classes this year, through Nov. 21.
JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
May 18, 2012

Fulbright orientation sessions for students heading to U.S.

Fulbright Japan will host two sessions in Tokyo in June for people who will enter undergraduate or graduate programs at U.S. universities this fall.
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JAPAN
May 13, 2012

Noda's vexing full plate: tax hike, Ozawa, Futenma, Senkakus

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda hopes to persuade Okinawans to accept the government's highly contentious plan to move the Futenma air base elsewhere in the prefecture once the burden of hosting U.S. forces there starts to ease.
Reader Mail
May 6, 2012

Unknown costs of U.S. military

Regarding the April 28 front-page article, "U.S., Japan tweak marine exit plan": In 1945, the southern half of the island of Okinawa was like those parts of the Tohoku region struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, with towns and villages devastated.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2012

Identifying the world's 'invisibles'

They have no twitter army, no righteous war being waged for their rescue. They are visible; they are out there on the streets. From ruthless lanes of Dhaka to dangerous dark alleys of Rio, tens of millions of children the world over are daily fighting hunger, violence and abuse just to survive and scratch...
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LIFE / Travel
Apr 22, 2012

Matsumoto in May means 'crafts '

England gave the world the Windsor chair, but it was the city of Matsumoto in central Nagano Prefecture that reinvented it for Japan.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 20, 2012

World Gardening Fair at Hotel Okura

This year, the Hotel Okura Tokyo marks its 50th anniversary, and as part of the celebrations, the hotel will host the 12th Annual World Gardening Fair from May 1-6 at the Heian Room on the first floor of its main building.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 15, 2012

Papa is an idol; marriage and memory loss; CM of the week: Takara Shuzo

Last month, pop idol Jin Akanishi was punished by his agency, Johnny's & Associates, for getting married without telling them. Another Johnny's idol, Ryo Nishikido, of the group Kanjani 8, has his handlers' blessing in the new series "Papa-doru" ("Papa Idol"; TBS, Thurs., 9 p.m.), which, though fiction,...
CULTURE / Art
Apr 12, 2012

Voina points to the art of dissent

The photo shows an unshaven Russian glaring into the distance from behind prison bars. It's a striking shot, so it is hardly surprising that when it was printed on a 4×6-meter banner and unfurled at an entrance to the 20-km exclusion zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the police officers...
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 12, 2012

Voina points to the art of dissent

The photo shows an unshaven Russian glaring into the distance from behind prison bars. It's a striking shot, so it is hardly surprising that when it was printed on a 4×6-meter banner and unfurled at an entrance to the 20-km exclusion zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the police officers...
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LIFE / Travel
Apr 8, 2012

Moving and shaking on Sakurajima

It looked like the kind of comfortably oily rag that makes a mechanic's job easier — the sort you find scrunched up in the corner of a garage soaked with tales of its long career, how it protected all manner of tools from rust, greased jamming gears ... and helped fix Mrs. Jones' "unfixable" carburettor...
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 6, 2012

Star chef supervises wedding banquets

The Hilton Nagoya has announced that Michelin-starred chef Stephane Gaborieau, who also has the title of MOF (Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, the French government's highest distinction for artisans), is supervising wedding banquet dishes at the hotel.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Mar 27, 2012

Suginami Ward 'informers' just doing their job

Several residents of Tokyo's Suginami Ward contacted us in response to C.W.'s experience, which appeared in our March 6 column, "Immigration 'informers' call on foreigners in Suginami Ward."
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ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
Mar 25, 2012

Plum nuts about Ikegami

Whether you call the Prunus mume a plum or an apricot (it is related to both), the flowers are plum elegant on their leafless, shiny branches and help cheer us through winter's finale. To enjoy them to the full, I seek out Ikegami Baien Garden in southern Tokyo's Ota Ward, having hopped the Tokyu Ikegami...
CULTURE / Art
Mar 22, 2012

"One Piece Exhibition: Original Art × Movies × Experience One Piece"

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the popular "Weekly Shonen Jump" manga "One Piece", the Mori Art Center Gallery is collaborating with its illustrator and writer Eiichiro Oda for a special exhibition that is sure to please fans.
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CULTURE / Art
Mar 22, 2012

"One Piece Exhibition: Original Art × Movies × Experience One Piece"

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the popular "Weekly Shonen Jump" manga "One Piece", the Mori Art Center Gallery is collaborating with its illustrator and writer Eiichiro Oda for a special exhibition that is sure to please fans.
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LIFE / Travel
Mar 18, 2012

Dazaifu's rich past still delights today

The gravel of a path in the garden at Komyozenji Temple has been swirled into the shape of the kanji for "light." It's a bit of an ironic choice for the fall day I visit, as only a few of the sun's rays have managed to penetrate the dense growth surrounding the rear of the temple. Those that do filter...

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A man offers prayers at Hebikubo Shrine in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. The shrine is one of several across the country dedicated to the snake.
Shed your skin and reinvent yourself in the Year of the Snake