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CULTURE / Music
Apr 25, 2004

Bob Dylan: "Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall"

The striking thing about the latest addition to the "Bootleg Series" is the realization that four years into his career Bob Dylan was still a callow youth. The concert took place Halloween night, 1964, a year after the Kennedy assassination, nine months after The Beatles conquered America, but a year...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 25, 2004

New Fuji TV series, "At-home Dad" and more

The new Fuji TV series, "At-home Dad" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), takes the usual housewife drama and reverses the genders to comic effect. Kazuyuki (Hiroshi Abe), a 37-year-old account executive at a leading advertising firm, is a victim of downsizing, thus forcing his wife to go out and work full-time.
Features / LIFE OR DEATH
Apr 25, 2004

Haunted by visions of a 'horrifying act'

It is the staircase of doom. Who knows what goes through a person's mind as they ascend those steps to the scaffold. Are they consumed with dread? Filled with thoughts of their loved ones? Or are they burdened with thoughts of their crime? No one knows because no one comes back down those stairs alive....
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Apr 25, 2004

Agent orange: a weapon of untold destruction

AGENT ORANGE: Collateral Damage in Viet Nam, by Philip Jones Griffiths. London: Trolley Ltd., 2003, 176 pp., £24.95 (cloth). Philip Jones Griffiths' haunting images will sear a space in that part of your memory bank reserved for nightmares and denial. They are powerful and gruesome reminders of what...
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2004

Bill to begin citizen-judge system clears Lower House

A judicial reform bill designed to introduce a lay judge system in Japan cleared the House of Representatives on Friday, with the support of both the ruling and opposition parties.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2004

Violence drives aid workers out of Iraq

Intense violence in Iraq has driven Japanese civic aid organizations to scale back their operations there.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 24, 2004

Barkley's commentary makes him look like a buffoon

NEW YORK -- As most of us with a pulse know all too well, Charles Barkley rarely says something that isn't stone stupid unless he has impounded somebody else's original thought. And TNT couldn't be prouder presenting its Master of the Oblivious.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 24, 2004

The Catch in publishing posters, cards, calendars

Meeting Frances Koston in May 2003 after a gap of years, she presented me with a clutch of postcards bearing beautifully printed images of early hand-tinted Japanese photographs. Just last month she came up with a collection of greeting cards of century-old textile prints, again originating in Japan....
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2004

National security rests on linguistic skills

SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- English is without a doubt the world's lingua franca. It's spoken by more than 400 million people as their native tongue and many others speak it as their second language.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 24, 2004

When L's and R's go mad

Having spent much of my life perplexed by Japan, I admit to a little "payback" delight whenever I catch Japan perplexed by the West. It seems it doesn't happen so often.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2004

Collins affair rocks Australia

SYDNEY -- Punch-drunk is how one Canberra insider describes the current state of Australia's security intelligence services. Never before in their roller-coaster history have the government's spying and spy-catching bodies been held in such public disrepute.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2004

Freed hostages traumatized by ordeal, criticism

The three Japanese civilians who returned home after being held hostage for over a week in Iraq are suffering from acute stress disorder, a psychiatrist said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2004

Gloves come off as rival LDP factions fight for cash

The two largest intraparty factions of the Liberal Democratic Party broke a long-standing taboo Wednesday by holding fundraising parties on the same evening in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2004

Mitsubishi Fuso pledges to prevent future faults

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. said Wednesday it will take measures to prevent a recurrence of the defect that caused wheels to detach from its large vehicles, proving fatal on one occasion.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 22, 2004

Lives of Beckham, Keane provide tabloids endless fodder

LONDON -- An apology. Those of you hoping for a column that does not mention David Beckham or Roy Keane will be disappointed.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2004

Abe in hot water over professor on campaign card

The Democratic Party of Japan might file a criminal complaint against Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Shinzo Abe for listing a public servant as a supporter in campaign postcards for the House of Representatives election in November.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Waseda gives doctorate to Stiglitz

Waseda University on Tuesday conferred its honorary doctorate of laws on Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor who won the 2001 Nobel economics prize.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

Hostages released into storm of criticism

Two days before her daughter was freed Thursday night by her captors in Iraq, 65-year-old Kyoko Takato was apologizing to the public, using words more befitting of the parent of a criminal.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2004

Arai faces five-year election ban

Prosecutors filed a lawsuit Tuesday to bar former House of Representatives lawmaker Masanori Arai from running for an election in his constituency for the next five years after his aides were found guilty of vote-buying in the November general election.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 21, 2004

Canadian noh drama is East meets West Coast

How can a contemporary long poem by a Western writer be transformed into a drama for one of theater's oldest forms, Japanese noh?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 21, 2004

The best gift a son could give

Les Invasions barbares Rating: * * * * (out of 5) Director: Denys Arcand Running time: 99 minutes Language: French Open April 24 [See Japan Times movie listings] In "Les Invasions barbares (Barbarian Invasions)," a dying father pulls his grown-up son to his chest and says, "When you...
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Toyota to showcase user-friendly items

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will launch an exhibition of user-friendly products in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2004

Help Japan by using more homegrown wood: report

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry released an annual forestry report Tuesday calling for greater use of domestically produced lumber to help Japan's ailing forestry industry.
Cherry blossom season predicted to begin in Tokyo on March 21
Tokyo is expected to lead the season with its first cherry blossoms on March 21, followed by Fukuoka, Kochi and Hiroshima prefectures as well as the city of Yokohama on March 22.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki mayors invite Trump to visit on 80th anniversary of atomic bombing
The preserved Atomic Bomb Dome is seen behind the Cenotaph for the victims of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park last October.
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.
Japanese man ends his 6,000 kilometer Africa rickshaw trek in Cape Town
Yuji "Gump" Suzuki, the Japanese runner and social media sensation, runs with supporters while pushing his rickshaw as he nears his goal in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday.
Sumo avoids chasm at top as Hoshoryu picked for top rank
Hoshoryu answers questions from reporters after being recommended for the rank of yokozuna, in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.
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.
Kanoa Igarashi dreams big as surfing championship tour gets underway
Kanoa Igarashi surfs in the Hurley Pro Sunset Beach competition in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 18.
How Japan is looking deep underground to solve its carbon problem
A pipe for transporting carbon dioxide to removal equipment at a carbon capture and storage (CCS) test site in Tomakomai, Hokkaido.

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

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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
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