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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 26, 2003

Sonny Landgreth: "The Road We're On"

Sonny Landreth's new release, "The Road We're On," marks a new peak for slide-guitar playing. Though blues guitarists often slip a bottleneck, roll a cut-metal tube or scrape a knife blade along the strings, only a few players become full-time slide masters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 26, 2003

Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks:"Masada Guitars"

'Masada Guitars" finds three very unusual and accomplished guitarists -- Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks -- interpreting the simple, elegant tunes from John Zorn's Masada songbook. Zorn began composing this material in 1993 and, by the time he finished, he'd written 208 of his most lyrical songs....
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2003

Sanitary infant environment suspected for high allergy incidence

Some 86 percent of people born in the 1970s have allergies against things such as mites and cedar pollen, researchers at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo estimated Monday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 25, 2003

Less than reassuring words

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries held one of their regular meetings last weekend in Paris. Two days of discussions produced a statement promising efforts to stabilize and stimulate their economies and a pledge to convene again in the event of an emergency....
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Feb 23, 2003

Neglected poet gets his due

JUST LIVING: Poems and Prose of the Japanese Monk Tonna, edited and translated by Steven D. Carter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 243 pp., $49.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper) Tonna (a pen name often romanized as Ton'a) was a poet and lay-monk who lived from 1289 to 1372. Born as Nikaido Sadamune...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 23, 2003

The picture of innocence?

Sex, nudity and violence -- there's a lot of it happening in Kobe.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 22, 2003

Go Girls offers safe place for learning languages

There are many ways to learn a language. And there are several introduction services that brings students and teachers together. None, however, have the commitment and organizational safety net of Go Girls.
COMMENTARY
Feb 22, 2003

Best policy Seoul can buy?

HONOLULU -- The unmaking of a hero is never pretty, but the fall of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has been especially ugly. The statesman leaves behind a shredded legacy and he, like many of his predecessors, is but one step ahead of the prosecutor. Even his Nobel Peace Price has been tarnished:...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2003

Quantum computer takes a step closer

Scientists in Japan have made a breakthrough in the quest to develop a quantum computer -- a still largely hypothetical device that would be dramatically more powerful than today's supercomputers -- electronics giant NEC said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2003

Smoke-control equipment not up to snuff

Smoke control equipment at almost 27 percent of the 556 subway stations checked nationwide in the wake of this week's fatal subway fire in South Korea do not meet nonbinding government safety standards, transport ministry officials said Thursday.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 20, 2003

No taste for obesity

In the British cult comic 2000AD, future lawman Judge Dredd patrols the streets of Mega City One, a vast metropolis on the eastern seaboard of what was once the United States. Mega City One makes Tokyo seem spacious, and its residents make Harajuku's weirdest seem tame: One group of future misfits are...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2003

Don't fear deregulation failures: Koizumi

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi urged his Cabinet on Tuesday to consider the hundreds of proposals by local municipalities nationwide seeking to create special deregulated zones.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

ASEAN official eyes political, cultural cooperation

The relationship between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations should encompass political, security and cultural cooperation, as well as economic concerns, a senior ASEAN official said Monday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2003

JUSEC accepting applications for Fulbright program

The Japan-United States Educational Commission has started accepting applications for its Fulbright Grant Program for the year beginning July 2004.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Feb 16, 2003

Lowdown on rising stars

They sing low and they're aiming high.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2003

No decision yet on insurer yield cuts

The government has made no final decision on whether to allow financially troubled life insurers to cut the yields they have guaranteed to policyholders, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Friday .
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 15, 2003

J.A. Stam

At the end of the 1960s, when Joop Stam was a student at Keio Kokusai Center in Tokyo, people used to say: "That young man from Holland will go a long way. He typifies the modern young scholar, who is eager and able to take advantage of today's opportunities."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Feb 12, 2003

Mountain man who walked the path of art

"Born alone, will die alone; come alone, will be gone alone; study alone, walk alone": This is said to have been the mantra of one of Japan's greatest 20th-century artists, the boisterous, arrogant and brilliant Rosanjin Kitaoji (1883-1959).
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 12, 2003

Pollen set to make hay fever while the sun shines

Some people don't have to witness the days getting longer to know spring is just around the corner. Their sneezing and runny noses are proof enough.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 11, 2003

ACCJ welcomes pledge to boost foreign investment

The Japanese government's recent pledge to encourage a doubling in foreign direct investment from overseas is a welcome and appropriate step to help resuscitate the flagging economy, according to the new president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 9, 2003

In search of lost worlds

Most Westerners have heard about the legend of Atlantis, but how many have heard about the lost kingdom of Nan Mador? Like Atlantis, Nan Mador was supposedly as big as a continent, and stretched from Micronesia in the South Pacific all the way to Easter Island off the coast of Chile.
COMMUNITY
Feb 9, 2003

How green is your green?

What a difference a decade makes.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2003

Justice minister comes out for casinos

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama proposed Friday the creation of a special law to legalize casinos.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2003

Five prefectures call for end to casino ban

Tokyo and four prefectural governments delivered a petition to the national government Thursday calling for a ban on casinos to be lifted, saying it would generate income and create jobs amid the nationwide economic slump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2003

New group to study accounting plan

A working group under a governmental advisory panel on financial affairs was inaugurated Thursday to examine a controversial proposal by Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka to change accounting rules that would force many major banks into capital shortfalls.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
No concessions over food safety in Japan-U.S. talks, Ishiba says
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters at his official residence in Tokyo on Thursday.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ¥5 trillion in tax revenue annually.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.

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