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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 1, 2005

Osteria La Luna Rossa: Moon shines brightly in Naka-Meguro

La Luna Rossa is one of those excellent little places that fly under the critical radar, avoiding the hyperventilation of the vernacular media but generating a deep, slow-sure buzz of appreciation among the culinary cognoscenti. In the parlance of the showbiz world, it's a sleeper.
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Mar 31, 2005

Magazines asked to lay off Ando

The Japan Skating Federation has asked a magazine publishing group to refrain from "overheated" coverage of popular teenage figure skater Miki Ando, one of Japan's medal hopefuls for next year's Winter Olympics, JSF officials said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 31, 2005

Rules to survive by

The Cabinet has approved a set of ground rules for protecting the people in the event of a military, terrorist or missile attack on Japan. The rules, officially called "Guidelines Concerning the Protection of the People," state what protective measures the government will take in such an emergency.
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LIFE / Language
Mar 31, 2005

Field of figures captivates kids

Last November, when students at the Early Learning Center of the American School in Japan went off to view an installation titled "Asian Field" by the renowned sculptor Antony Gormley, probably no one guessed just how big an impact the experience would have.
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Mar 30, 2005

Ai-chan set for Chinese club

Japanese table tennis player Ai Fukuhara flew off to China's Shenyang Province on Tuesday as she prepares to formally sign with Chinese club Liaoning.
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CULTURE / Art
Mar 30, 2005

The influence of a literary titan lasts for 200 years

Renowned as a poet, novelist, dramatist and critic, Victor Hugo was a figure of legendary proportions whose funeral procession through Paris in 1885 attracted more than 2 million devotees.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2005

Household spending fell 3.8% in February

Spending by wage-earning households fell a real 3.8 percent in February from a year earlier to 301,372 yen, the government said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2005

Sumida-Taito picked for new Tokyo Tower site

NHK and five commercial TV broadcasters in the Tokyo area said Monday they have picked the Sumida-Taito area in the capital as a leading candidate site for a new 600-meter Tokyo Tower.
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2005

Quicker domestic farm reform

Japanese agriculture is beleaguered. Farmland keeps shrinking as aging farmers retire. Collective farming is all but stalled as prospective partners stay on the sidelines. The domestic market faces strong pressure for liberalization. For all this, structural reform is making little headway. No wonder...
COMMENTARY
Mar 28, 2005

Positive media shock waves

Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie has sent shock waves reverberating through the Japanese media industry with his hostile takeover bid for Nippon Broadcasting Co., a member of the Fujisankei media conglomerate.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Mar 28, 2005

A fundamentalism of sorts affected Japan

NEW YORK -- The influence of fundamentalist and evangelical religion on U.S. politics, both domestic and abroad, is growing, but something similar happened during the early part of the Showa Era (1926-89). I thought of this recently when I read Daikichi Terauchi's "Kejo no Showa Shi" (A History of Showa...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2005

Low rates endanger South Korean banks

GUATEMALA CITY -- Misguided central-bank policies are wreaking havoc around the world. From Seoul to Washington and back, central bankers have forced down short-term interest rates in an orgy of monetary promiscuity.
Features
Mar 27, 2005

Mrs. Matsui

It was an open secret in my husband's course on modern Japanese literature at Radcliffe in the 1960s that his inspiration came not directly from the prose and poetry of Japan but from his absolute devotion to me.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2005

Rice shows her mettle in Asian gauntlet

HONOLULU -- A Korean journalist in Seoul last weekend asked visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice how she coped with a bureaucracy staffed largely with white men.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 27, 2005

Yankee's Matsui visits lectures kids in his hometown on NHK's "Kagai Jugyo" and more

A year ago, SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi gave a speech at the United Nations University in Tokyo about children.
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CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Mar 27, 2005

Swing is the thing for bassist Nakamura

Not many Japanese jazz musicians have played in front of a President of the United States, but Kengo Nakamura is one. After leaving his hometown of Osaka to study at Boston's esteemed Berklee College of Music in 1988, where he switched from electric to acoustic bass, and struggling for a while to find...
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Mar 26, 2005

Fukushima to fight for WBA title

Japanese bantamweight boxer Manabu Fukushima will fight Ukrainian WBA champion Wladimir Sidorenko in Tokyo in June in his first shot at a world title in three years, his gym said Friday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 26, 2005

Alliance lets Japan, Britain influence America to change

NAGOYA/LONDON -- The UK-Japan 21st Century Group, set up two decades ago by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, has been mulling over the foreign-policy dilemmas of the two countries at their annual get-together.
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COMMUNITY
Mar 26, 2005

Dr. Tutu & Tame Iti project paints cultural theft

When Lisa Salmon was introduced to Jeff Root by an old high school friend in California, they found they had Japan in common. Jeff taught here in the early 1990s, and was then head-hunted out of Chicago in 2001; Lisa came initially on the JET program in 1996.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2005

Fujita left his heirs 49.1 billion yen

The late Den Fujita, founder and former president of McDonald's Co. (Japan), left his relatives 49.1 billion yen in inheritance subject to taxation, the tax office in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 26, 2005

Riding on the 'pachinko train' to Reno

The train dropped me off at night right in the middle of Reno, Nev., where neon lights flashed everywhere and casinos lined the streets. The railroad to Reno was built in 1868 and the train runs over the mountains, not through tunnels. This is probably whey we don't have bullet trains in the U.S. --...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 25, 2005

Classless Chelsea, Mourinho facing yet another day in the dock

LONDON -- Another day, another charge.
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LIFE / Travel
Mar 25, 2005

All fired up for ceramics central

Despite having saddled itself with the dire name of Centrair Airport, Japan's newest air facility, which opened last month near Nagoya, looks to have started off well enough.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2005

Trade surplus fell 22% last month to 1.09 trillion yen

The customs-cleared trade surplus shrank 21.7 percent in February from a year earlier to 1.09 trillion yen for the second straight month of decline.

Longform

The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a Japanese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.
Driving in Japan isn’t hard. Getting the license is.