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CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Mar 9, 2011

Taro Okamoto towers above 2011

An NHK drama rekindled interest in Sakamoto Ryoma in 2010; will a new series do the same for artist Taro Okamoto in 2011?
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Mar 5, 2011

New-style ramen targets female noodle-lovers

Ramen shops diversify their stocks, toppings and presentations in hopes of attracting female noodle-lovers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 4, 2011

Kuriyama trades her blades for a song

She's died on screen almost as many times as she's killed. Western movie fans will know her as Gogo Yubari, the spiked-ball-and-chain-wielding schoolgirl who disembowels men for fun before crying tears of blood in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 1." In Japan, she's been an actress since the age...
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Mar 2, 2011

The Nintendo 3DS faces stiff competition, and not just from other game consoles

In 2004, Nintendo released the Nintendo DS, a dual-screen gaming handheld that was revised several times over the next few years as the DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL (LL in Japan) and went on to become one of the most popular consoles ever. The Kyoto-based gamemaker is obviously hoping to repeat that success...
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 27, 2011

Papering over the CCP cracks

I happened to be in Chengdu during the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize wrangle. Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned human rights activist, became the third person to receive the prestigious award while in detention. When his prize was announced in October, Beijing denounced the award and subsequently...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 26, 2011

Here's Japan's big, white hope

I read a piece of news the other day that makes me feel that "Japan as No. 3" may finally be headed in the right direction.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Feb 24, 2011

Dr. Arihisa Fujimaki

Dr. Arihisa Fujimaki, 67, is the director of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) Hospital in Tokyo. An expert in reconstructive microsurgery, this orthopedic surgeon regularly performs operations to re-attach fingers, toes, hands and the occasional foot. Fujimaki is a hero to many, from construction...
CULTURE / Books
Feb 20, 2011

'Remote Control': Big Brother is watching you

If you want an all-action, well-written and intelligent novel to read in 2011, then look no further than this excellent conspiracy-theory thriller.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 13, 2011

Japan's cull of once-loved pets cries out for German-style controls

An early riser, I am generally on one of the first trains out of my local station and walking across the sprawling university campus by 6 a.m.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 12, 2011

A serving paints a thousand words

In Japan, food is not just food. It's art.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 12, 2011

Man City needs win over Man United to stay in race

LONDON — What a fabulous season this is.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 11, 2011

Miila and the Geeks take Tokyo 'riot grrrl' sound international

A small girl, stylishly dressed in a short, black-and-white dress crouches hunched over a microphone, spitting out vocals that might be English or might be Martian for all the audience can tell beneath the thick overlay of distortion; a sax player with crazy hair is engaged in some kind of intense, seemingly...
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 8, 2011

Seniors reconnecting to retail

Creative retailers and caregivers are finding ways to empower the growing legions of elderly shoppers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Feb 8, 2011

Indian works to serve expat enclave

Once you get out of Nishi-Kasai Station on the Tozai subway line, it's likely that you will bump into at least half a dozen Indians in the first five minutes on the street.
COMMENTARY
Feb 6, 2011

Lama drama and intrigue

NEW DELHI — The police seizure of large sums of Chinese currency from the Indian monastery of the China-anointed, but now India-based, Karmapa Lama — one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism — has revived old suspicions about his continuing links with China and forced him to deny that...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 6, 2011

Tsumago: Living off its past

Tsumago is, indisputably, a charming place. Low mountains swing the former post-town's main street around in a curve of weathered wooden houses, backdropping the scene with the dark green of the firs that cloak the hills.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Feb 6, 2011

Yang Sok Gil: Writing about wrongs at home and abroad

Yang Sok Gil is renowned for his novels describing, with remarkable humanity and humor, people's wanton desires and the problems they cause, often from the viewpoint of minorities in Japan or elsewhere.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 4, 2011

Hot pot meals for the Tokyo winter

Through Feb. 28, the Grand Hyatt Tokyo is offering special winter menus featuring various nabe (hot pot) dishes at its restaurants to warm guests up during the cold winter season.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 4, 2011

'Tsumetai Nettaigyo (Cold Fish)'

Sion Sono is a self-confessed chameleon, who can switch effortlessly from the laugh-a-minute black comedy of 2008's "Ai no Mukidashi (Love Exposure)" to the heartfelt medical melodrama of 2009's "Chanto Tsutaeru (Be Sure to Share)" and the splatter shock of his latest, "Tsumetai Nettaigyo (Cold Fish)."...
JAPAN / Media
Jan 30, 2011

'LED smiles': How a nonexistent Japanese schoolgirl craze became a meme

A nonexistent Japanese style trend turned into Internet meme this past week, thanks to a New York Times blog, the online version of The Guardian and other news websites. If the report — which was passed verbatim from site to site, tweet to tweet — was to be believed, the latest craze among Japanese...
BASKETBALL
Jan 27, 2011

Clutch Fukuoka rises above Apache in fourth quarter for road win

The center is expected to be the tone-setter on defense, filling up space in the lane and dissuading foes from having a free pass to the hoop. On offense, he is expected to open things up for the team's smaller players and use his size to generate high-percentage shots.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2011

Watershed moment for U.S. space exploration

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — More than 50 years ago (1957), the Soviets launched the world's first orbiting satellite, beating the United States into space. For Americans, the "Sputnik moment" was a wakeup call that pushed the U.S. to increase investment in technology and science education. Months later,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jan 27, 2011

Champion itasha drivers Rei and Cloud

Rei Densetsu and his sister Cloud are champion itasha (decorated car) drivers. At the 2010 Fuji Speedway itasha event, where Japan's best-decorated cars are judged on their designs, Cloud won the Impact Prize and Rei received the Special Award for their outrageously decked-out vehicles. The term "itasha"...
Biden announces $5.9 billion for Ukraine amid final aid push
U.S. President Joe Biden (right) meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington on Sept. 26.
Kumamoto public schools respond to influx of Taiwanese students
The city of Kumamoto has seen a surge in the number of students from Taiwan, following the arrival of chipmaking giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and related businesses in Kumamoto Prefecture.
Sumo’s brotherhood gets latest inductee
Chugo Saito at Isenoumi stable on Friday. Saito has joined his older brother, Seigo, at the stable.
Mother arrested after three children die in Kanagawa Prefecture
A woman was arrested for allegedly killing her son, who was found dead along with two other children of the suspect in their house in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture.
In quake-hit Noto region, residents get ready to welcome the new year
Volunteers prepare food at a soup kitchen in the city of Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Japan news images of 2024: Upheaval, resilience and breakthroughs
A person walks down a street in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the days following a magnitude 7.6 earthquake, which struck off the coast of the Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024. More than 500 deaths have been attributed to the event, which was the worst quake since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.
A newcomer’s guide to the Hakone Ekiden experience
The start of the 2024 Hakone Ekiden in Tokyo's Otemachi district. Every year on Jan. 2 and 3, Hakone Ekiden brings millions of fans across Japan to a standstill.
Kumamoto public schools respond to influx of Taiwanese students
The city of Kumamoto has seen a surge in the number of students from Taiwan, following the arrival of chipmaking giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and related businesses in Kumamoto Prefecture.
Japan defense spending goals hit by inflation, weak yen and political uncertainty
Ground Self-Defense Force members conduct a military drill next to an anti-ship missile unit on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Japan’s weather in 2024: Record temperatures hurt people’s health and wallets
People cover themselves with umbrellas during a hot summer day in Tokyo's Ginza district in August. Temperatures shot up in early July, even before the official end of the rainy season, and the high temperatures persisted well into the fall.

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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
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