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LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Mar 9, 2007

This wine school gets better with age

Japan's oldest and largest wine school, the Academie du Vin, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Something of an institution in Japan's wine world, the academy has turned out more than 30,000 graduates in its two decades of operation. But rather than rest on its laurels, the school continues...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2007

Tech project turns streets into virtual tour guides

It makes for a jabber-filled downtown stroll -- getting deluged by chatter over earphones from some 1,200 tiny computer chips embedded in lampposts, subway-station ceilings and road cement, beaming maps, tidbits of history and store guides.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2007

Wikipedia founder searches for info in Japan

Regardless of the language, a search on the Internet these days will likely bring up a reference to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Feb 27, 2007

A grab bag of affordable products

Great design ideas do not necessarily need to cost an arm and a leg -- even though some manufacturers would like you to think so. With that in mind, this month's picks are a grab bag of affordable products, all under 10,000 yen (the small version of the Oblong clock excepted). Also, you should be able...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 20, 2007

Healthy eating and divorce

Food therapist? M. wonders if we know someone who does food therapy in Tokyo.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Feb 9, 2007

Avoiding a vinferno

Midway through our life's journey as wine collectors, we found our wine refrigerator almost lost, its engine straining desperately against the summer heat. Delving into the dark wood of the cabinet to remove all the bottles would provide a chance to catalog and glorify years of strategic acquisitions...
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 30, 2007

Press clubs: Exclusive access to, pipelines for info

Because "kisha" press clubs provide easy access to information provided by the central and local governments and business associations, membership is considered essential for mainstream news organizations.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 30, 2007

Between the crafty and the user-friendly

Receptacle for the respectable It wouldn't seem that much could be done to improve on the functionality of the lowly water dispenser -- all you need is a receptacle and a tap. Enter Kai House with the Adhoc product from their Kitchen Design Movement collection. It features both a paired-down design --...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 26, 2006

Looking for just the right balance

Having trouble managing life, work and sundry commitments as 2006 speeds to a close? Looking for a refreshing resolution -- something challenging or even cultural -- to ring in the new year?
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 22, 2006

A 'Choral' high in style

On Dec. 31, the Marunouchi Building's grandiose first floor, Marucube, will be filled with the sound of a large choir singing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 "Choral."
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 15, 2006

Christmas-themed pipe organ concerts keep it snappy

Two contrasting pipe-organ concerts will be given at Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall on Dec. 20 and 23. The organists will be joined by instrumentalists and vocalists to perform Christmas-themed programs that include works that were innovative for their time.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 15, 2006

Two DJs, 15 years

Any club celebrating its 15th anniversary is obviously doing something right, and the lineup this weekend (Dec. 15-16, 10 p.m.-late) at Space Lab Yellow provides plenty of clues as to how the Nishi-Azabu nightspot has managed to keep its dance floor full for so long. While most anniversary parties tend...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 17, 2006

Globe-trotting sitar player tours Japan

Sitar virtuoso Nishat Khan was recently flown out to Tokyo to perform for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This month, one of Japan's own globe-trotting exponents of this Indian instrument, Aki Ueda, will tour Japan, proving that Indian classical music has found an audience beyond the government walls of Kasumigaseki....
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 17, 2006

J-tech pioneer returns with album and tour

It's unusual for an exponent of techno music -- often decried as a somehow unartistic form of music -- to be enthusiastically embraced by the establishment, but DJ Ken Ishii has achieved exactly that.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 10, 2006

Cannibalism, hot-spring trysts

Donald Richie knows a thing or two about Japanese film. A prolific author, critic and Japan resident for almost 60 years, he has written authoritative works on two of Japan's best-known directors, Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu. But lesser known are his own experimental short films, five of which will...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 10, 2006

Miraikan explores science as human survival tool

The depletion of natural resources, ongoing energy crises and the dangers of global warming pose threats to our modern lifestyles.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 8, 2006

Remembrances of a rocky relationship with Celtics legend Auerbach

NEW YORK -- I've always found it fairly fascinating Brooklyn was the birthplace of Michael Jordan, Al Capone and Red Auerbach, all of whom found fame/infamy elsewhere.
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Oct 27, 2006

Psychedelic radar 10.27

Saturday, Oct. 28
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 27, 2006

Asian prodigies perform under Luisi's baton

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will be in Japan from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13, collaborating with record-breaking young Asian pianists under the baton of Fabio Luisi. They will also tour the country with conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, as part of Vienna Philharmonic Week in Japan.

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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