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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 19, 2005

The most dangerous civilian job in Iraq

SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- In the translation world, the Italian phrase "traduttore, traditore" (translator, traitor) is used to suggest the inability to capture all the meaning in the original text and transfer it into another language because something inevitably gets lost in translation. Insurgents in...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 17, 2005

Is it a crime to want realism?

DRAGON'S EYE, by Andy Oakes. Overlook TP, 2005, 460 pp., $14.95 (paper). Eight horribly mutilated bodies are found chained together in Shanghai's Huangpu River. Four of the corpses, the autopsies reveal, turn out to be recently executed criminals; two others are European males; one appears to be an overseas...
CULTURE / Music
Jul 17, 2005

Eddie Palmieri's Latin All-Stars

After years of playing hot, percussive piano in other people's Latin bands, Eddie Palmieri formed his own group in 1961. In battles of the bands in dance clubs like New York's famed Palladium, Palmieri's always came out on top. He called his band La Perfecta for one reason: It was perfect.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 17, 2005

There's nothing quite like a good Indian argument

THE ARGUMENTATIVE INDIAN: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, by Amartya Sen. Penguin, 2005, 356 pp., £25 (cloth). "We do like to speak," admits Amartya Sen, citing a well-known fact about Indians in the opening paragraph of "The Argumentative Indian." But what the Nobel Prize-winning...
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Jul 17, 2005

Dining where no solo woman dared

Reiko Yuyama believes that adventures are there to be had in daily life without having to go out into the wilderness. In that sense, she says she might be "more of an adventurer than Christopher Columbus or Naomi Uemura," the late, great Japanese explorer and climber who disappeared on Mount McKinley...
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2005

Two held in slaying of homeless man

Two people were arrested Saturday on suspicion of beating a homeless man to death last week in a park in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, police said.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Jul 17, 2005

Tokyo eyes global catwalk

The Japanese fashion business is abuzz with the news that the six-week-long Tokyo Collections event that has forever been largely ignored by the international media is to be compressed into a government-backed, 10-day industry showcase staged in the grounds of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo's supertrendy Harajuku...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 17, 2005

A fresh democracy or Maoist disaster?

HONOLULU -- For 10 years, the remote Himalayan kingdom of Nepal has been slipping nearer and nearer to the edge of collapse; the tipping point is now close at hand.
COMMENTARY
Jul 17, 2005

The international terror lab

NEW DELHI -- The July 7 London bombings, suspected to be the handiwork of British citizens of Pakistani origin, should serve as a reminder that major acts of international terrorism have first been tried out by Islamists in India before being replicated in the West. Such acts include attacks on symbols...
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Narita to extend runway northward

Narita International Airport's "interim" 2,180-meter second runway will be extended to the north to its full length of 2,500 meters instead of to the south as originally planned because landowners refused to budge, the operator said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

White paper targets red tape, menace of deflation

The government issued its annual economic white paper Friday, calling for greater deregulation and other market-driven reforms aimed at slimming down the bureaucracy.
COMMENTARY
Jul 16, 2005

The terrorists won't succeed

LONDON -- The British government's measured and firm response to the attacks in London on July 7 has had the support of all political parties. The resolution of the general public to get on with their life has not wilted.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Medicine group goes after sleeping sickness in Africa

A group supplying drugs to the poor in developing nations signed an agreement Friday in Tokyo with the Kitasato Institute to conduct a joint project to develop a cure for sleeping sickness, currently spreading across Africa.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Supreme Court sides with revisionist authors over library's trashing of texts

The Supreme Court on Thursday overruled a lower court decision that rejected a damages claim filed by the authors of a revisionist history textbook against a municipal library that had discarded a large number of other books they wrote.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

Wanted Pyongyang agent taught Korean to Yokota, Soga

A former North Korean agent on an international wanted list taught the Korean language and North Korean philosophy to two Japanese abducted to the country in the late 1970s, sources said.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

India factor cools Dhaka to 'G4' resolution, Zia hints

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia stopped short Thursday of supporting a U.N. resolution compiled by the "Group of Four" to expand the Security Council.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2005

India factor cools Dhaka to 'G4' resolution, Zia hints

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia stopped short Thursday of supporting a U.N. resolution compiled by the "Group of Four" to expand the Security Council.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2005

Bots engage in pitch battle as RoboCup kicks off

OSAKA -- Excitement ripples through the onlookers as the players take their positions on the pitch. The whistle blows, and the match begins. But just as one player clears the ball and starts racing toward the goalposts, the referee blows a whistle.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2005

Koizumi confident as postal bills hit last stage

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday he is confident his contentious package of postal privatization bills won't be rejected by the House of Councilors and there will be no need to dissolve the House of Representatives.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2005

Bots engage in pitch battle as RoboCup kicks off

OSAKA -- Excitement ripples through the onlookers as the players take their positions on the pitch. The whistle blows, and the match begins. But just as one player clears the ball and starts racing toward the goalposts, the referee blows a whistle.
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2005

Oil-price rises may hold recovery hostage: experts

Rising oil prices have yet to faze Japan. But with oil experts projecting further hikes to as much as $80 a barrel, the nation should brace itself for direct and indirect hits on its recovery in the not-so-distant future, economists say.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2005

Kanda allegedly key bid-rigger in scam

Sozo Kanda, the former board member of Japan Highway Public Corp. arrested Tuesday by the Tokyo High Prosecutor's Office, allegedly played a central role in what has become the nation's biggest public works bid-rigging scandal.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 13, 2005

You've never seen anything so ancient Chinese like this in Tokyo

Tokyo's Mori Art Museum is currently hosting one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Chinese artifacts that has ever been held in Japan. "China: Crossroads of Culture" is an incredible amalgam of treasures and art objects from the entire first millennium of Chinese history, beginning with pieces...
COMMENTARY
Jul 13, 2005

Sinophobia complicates takeover bids

HONG KONG -- In quick succession, the previously intangible reality of "China Rising" has taken on tangible form for Americans, as China has used the wealth that has accrued as a result of its rapid development and huge trade surpluses to try and takeover three U.S. businesses.
BUSINESS
Jul 13, 2005

June confidence index down on wage jitters

Consumer confidence fell for the first time in three months in June as households grew concerned about living conditions and wages, the government said Tuesday.
Investigators seek to salvage aircraft after deadly Washington crash
Debris at the site of a deadly plane crash in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.
In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback
Though vegan restaurants have been on the upswing since 2017, Japanese vegans still lack a wide variety of options.
North Korean troops no longer seen on front lines fighting Ukraine
Ukrainian military vehicles close to the border with Russia’s Kursk region, in Ukraine on Jan. 9.
74-year-old truck driver trapped in Saitama sinkhole for third day
Efforts continued Thursday to rescue a 74-year-old truck driver trapped in a massive sinkhole in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture.
LDP gets a taste of life with an opposition-led budget committee
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba answers questions during a Lower House budget committee meeting on Friday.
Two decades of unparalleled access into the world of Hayao Miyazaki
Documentary director Kaku Arakawa’s filming style — naturalistic, intimate and unobtrusive — proved essential to portraying anime powerhouse Hayao Miyazaki as a man as flawed and human as he is a visionary artist in “Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron.”
For two weeks only, cold-water yellowtail can give you chills
Yellowtail caught during the coldest period of the year is delicious enough — but paired with a classic method of marinade and pan-searing, it's divine.
In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback
Though vegan restaurants have been on the upswing since 2017, Japanese vegans still lack a wide variety of options.
Who are the key figures involved in the growing Fuji TV scandal?
Fuji TV adviser Hisashi Hieda in 2005
What we learned at Fuji TV's marathon Nakai scandal news conference
Members of the media raise their hands for questions as outgoing Fuji TV President Koichi Minato attends a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Ayumi Matsuki, a priestess at Yoshiwara Shrine, shows off some "o-mamori" charms. She says visitors to the shrine have increased since the NHK drama “Unbound” began airing this month.
Tracing Tsutaya Juzaburo, Edo’s media maverick
By Alex K.T. Martin

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