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BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2008

Disney to work with two local animators

Animation fans will soon be treated to two new cartoons sprung from collaborations between Walt Disney Co. Japan and two Japanese animation companies, the local unit of the U.S. entertainment giant said Thursday.
Reader Mail
Mar 6, 2008

Education reforms may backfire

Finland's No. 1 ranking in math and science in the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment is cited in the March 2 editorial "Education reform in reverse." Japan is implementing changes in its system of education that will do little in the long run to improve overall educational quality.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 6, 2008

39art Day

Taking place internationally on March 9
CULTURE / Art
Mar 6, 2008

"Tokyo Performing Arts Market 2008"

Yebisu Garden Place, The Garden Hall and other locations in Tokyo
CULTURE / Art
Mar 6, 2008

"Syoin Kajii: Marginal Villages"

Foil Gallery in Tokyo's Higashi-Kanda
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JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008

Kamakura farmers hit food-waste plan

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Pref. — The truck farmers market in the center of this ancient capital has been an experiment on many fronts: It is a rare no-middleman link to consumers, engaging in a communal shared rotation of stalls and offering an ever-expanding bounty to please the city's worldly palates....
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LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Mar 5, 2008

Easy-to-listen-to hits, soccer memories

Proven brand: Picking genuine designer goods from increasingly sophisticated ripoffs is tough. So Hitachi and printing maestro Toppan next month bring to Japan a high-tech method for seeing beyond the label. The IC Hologram is an RFID (radio-frequency identification) tag with a special hologram etched...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2008

Keynes and the end of economic history

PARIS — Some academic works, for reasons that are at least partly obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history. Such is the case with John Maynard Keynes' paper "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren."
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 2, 2008

Compartmentalizing Japanese using prefectural stereotypes

At the heart of the current argument over whether or not to continue the special gasoline tax is a question that gets overlooked: Does the central government have too much control over prefectural governments?
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Feb 29, 2008

Club world c'ship presents challenges

There's talk that FIBA, basketball's world governing body, wants to create a new club world championship.
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LIFE / Travel
Feb 29, 2008

Splendor falls on castle walls

Snowcapped Fuji drops behind the humps of the Hakone range in central Honshu as a southwest-bound train approaches Odawara Station. With mountains on the west and the ocean on the south and east, Odawara was a natural fortress. The first to exploit this topography was the Kobayakawa clan, who built a...
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 29, 2008

'Doko ni Iku no'

Japanese indie directors who made their reputations in the 1970s and '80s often have big gaps in their feature-film resumes. Sogo Ishii didn't make a feature for 10 years following 1984's "Gyakufunsha Kazoku (Crazy Family),"a groundbreaking black comedy. Mitsuo Yanagimachi, who burst onto the scene in...
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 29, 2008

Shomyo no Kai

Shomyo got off to a good start in Japan. The first documented performance of this form of Buddhist sutra chanting, originally from India, was before an audience of 10,000 monks and priests at Nara's Todaiji Temple in 752.
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JAPAN
Feb 27, 2008

High court finds Suzuki took bribes, rejects appeal

The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by House of Representatives lawmaker Muneo Suzuki against the two-year prison term and ¥11 million fine he received in 2004 for accepting bribes from two Hokkaido-based companies.
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JAPAN
Feb 27, 2008

Osaka governor stays popular even as doubts mount

OSAKA — It's only been one month since Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto's landslide election victory Jan. 27. But for both his supporters and opponents, it feels a lot longer.
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Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Feb 27, 2008

War exacts top toll on bottom echelons: vet

Fifteenth in a series
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2008

Pakistan set to lift its ban on Bollywood

MADRAS, India — Cinema is a powerful weapon, though it is often called soft power. Men like Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Germany's Adolf Hitler understood the awesome might of movies.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 24, 2008

Coming of age mini-series, cop-thriller-drama, Kazakhstan documentary

Owing presumably to TV viewers' dwindling attention spans, drama series are becoming shorter. This week, Fuji TV presents a four-part dramatization of an award-winning novel over the course of four consecutive nights rather than four consecutive weeks.
CULTURE / Books
Feb 24, 2008

Stephen Barber: Re-imagining the Megalopolis

THE TOKYO TRILOGY by Stephen Barber. Creation Books, 2008, 320 pp., $16.95 (paper) Apocalyptic orgasms, feral abattoir gangs and the digitalization of Hitler's ghost rarely appear in mainstream literature, and Stephen Barber's "The Tokyo Trilogy" — comprising "Tokyo Sodom," "Tokyo Slaughterhouse" and...
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LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008

Cancer specialist beats the odds

For breast surgeon Takako Kamio, 53, science is all about going to your limit to seek the truth.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 24, 2008

Inside Namibia's forbidden zone

First of two parts
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 22, 2008

'Evening'

Lest we forget what it is to be a woman, there's always the chick flick to remind us exactly what this may imply. In the case of "Evening," the implying rather has the effect of a tidal wave. There they are, all the usual suspects: love (unrequited and otherwise), weddings, marriages, careers, motherhood,...
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 22, 2008

Takagi taps the color of sound

Is Masakatsu Takagi a musician that makes video art or a video artist that makes music?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2008

'Talk' therapy helps against inhibitions

Cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy are widely known abroad to be effective in treating depression.
EDITORIALS
Feb 20, 2008

Kosovo is born

The Republic of Kosovo has declared its independence. A decade after a bloody separatist war with Serbia that claimed thousands of lives, the Albanian enclave that was one of the last remnants of Yugoslavia has promised to create a "democratic, multiethnic state." The move, bitterly denounced by the...
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JAPAN
Feb 20, 2008

Treating clinical depression a tall order

Depression is no stranger to Japanese society, but only within the last decade has its "clinical" component gained currency along with the realization that the malady can affect almost anyone.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2008

It's official: Toshiba pulls plug on HD DVD

Toshiba Corp. announced Tuesday it will completely shut down its HD DVD operations, ending a battle with Sony Corp.'s rival Blu-ray system to become the industry standard for next-generation DVDs.

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