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

Monster and myth merge to create a new Frankenstein

Frequent performers in Japan, TNT Theatre Britain will present "Frankenstein -- the Monster and the Myth," directed by Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith, in Tokyo on Nov. 7 and 18, and in Kyoto on Nov. 15.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 27, 2006

St. Mary's requiem concert offers chance to remember loved ones

The Heinrich Schuetz Choir Tokyo and the Ubiquitous Bach Orchestra will present a concert for audience members to remember their deceased loved ones on Nov. 17 at the Kenzo Tange-designed St. Mary's Cathedral in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. Titled "Requiem Gathering for the Consolation of Souls," the audience...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Oct 13, 2006

Fall in for some wine adventures

A s a welcome series of typhoons scrubs away the last of the summer heat, we find ourselves at long last putting away the beer-bottle openers and breaking out the corkscrews. Fortunately for wine lovers, this fall offers no shortage of temptations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Oct 13, 2006

Psychedelic radar 10.13

Raja Ram's Stash Bag Tour 2006
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 13, 2006

Sound and vision

Visual artist and musician Masakatsu Takagi is not the first to liken his work to "drawing on canvas." The difference with the young multi-media artist is that his canvas is his personal computer. Takagi performs at the Laforet Museum in Jingumae, Tokyo, for four shows on Oct. 27-29.
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Sep 29, 2006

Psychedelic radar 09.29

Mother Records: Sept. 30
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 22, 2006

Mix of local, international ensures club's longevity

With the global club scene experiencing mixed fortunes, as can be seen in Tokyo with smallish crowds at many clubs and dance festivals rumored to be struggling to attract big-name artists from overseas, one event space continues to draw people several years after first opening its doors. Air, in Daikanyama,...
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2006

Access to resident info to be limited starting Nov. 1

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a decision to limit access to local governments' resident registry books to organizations and individuals acting in the public interest, ending the current practice of providing such access to anyone.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2006

NPA will offer reward money for info on crimes

The National Police Agency announced a seven-point public safety plan Tuesday for fiscal 2007, highlighted by the offering of rewards for information leading to the arrest of people suspected of committing serious crimes.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 25, 2006

Euripides transported

As one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece, along with Sophocles and Aischylos, Euripides is well-known to modern theatergoers through masterworks such as "Electra." From Aug. 26-Sept. 10, Theatre Project Tokyo will present one of Euripides' later -- and lesser-known -- works, "Bakxai," at...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2006

Metamorphose 2006

When & where: Metamorphose 2006 will be held Aug. 26-27 at the Japan Cycle Sports Center in Shizuoka Prefecture. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, music begins at 6 p.m. and goes on until 9 a.m. Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 12, 2006

World Family Club says it's OK to be different

Meet Mark Segerlund, happiness personified. With a house in Tokyo, a retreat on Chiba's Boso Peninsula that offers unparalleled sunsets over the Pacific, a dog that he dotes on and a job he adores with near equal passion, he says he is home, and this is not hard to believe.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Sax man Pharoah Sanders still hitting the right notes

One of the finest tenor saxophone players of his generation, Pharoah Sanders returns to Japan to play three dates at the Blue Note in Tokyo from Aug. 20-23, before guesting with the Japanese jazz-dance fusion band Sleepwalker as part of Metamorphose, an eclectic one-day dance music/jazz festival taking...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Classic Broadway musical 'West Side Story' staged

The Joey McNeely-directed Broadway musical "West Side Story" runs at Tokyo's Bunkamura, from Aug. 16-Sept. 3, before touring Osaka, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Matsumoto and Toyama.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 28, 2006

Celebrate jazz, hip-hop near Fuji

Amid the deluge of high-profile rock festivals this summer are some more idiosyncratic events boasting eclectic lineups in unusual settings. So for every "Summer Sonic" featuring big-selling rock acts from abroad in an urban setting, there is a festival like "True People's Celebration 2006," organized...
As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more U.S. firms say retailers turning away products
Empty shelves with "Buy Canadian Instead" signs are seen in the American Whiskey section of the BC Liquor in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 10.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
Japan, South Korea and China vow to strengthen trade ties amid looming U.S. tariffs
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoji Muto (left), South Korean Trade Industry and Energy Minister Ahn Duk-geun (center) and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao during a trilateral meeting in Seoul on Sunday
The U.S. says Japan has a 700% tariff on American rice. Is that the case?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds up a piece of paper with information about tariff rates at the White House on Tuesday.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
On defense, Japan may avoid Trump's worst impulses — for now
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth chat after reviewing an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday.

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