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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 21, 2006

Swiss pianist plays Bach

Pianist Karl-Andreas Kolly has performed both chamber music and as a soloist since studying with Hans Schicker at the Music Academy in Zurich. Kolly performs an all-Bach program at Suda Hall in Tokyo on July 27.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 21, 2006

Greg Graffin "Cold As The Clay"

Having spent 26 years (and counting) fronting California punk act Bad Religion, Greg Graffin has earned the right to branch out. "Cold As The Clay" marks his second solo recording, and the first to be credited to his own name. A mix of time-honored and modern Americana, on "Cold As," Graffin, like many...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 20, 2006

Artist as inventor

You, like many, might be satisfied with just dreaming of flying. But for inventor/artist Kazuhiko Hachiya, such an idea is hardly in the realm of fantasy -- he thinks that if people want to fly, he should find a way of making it possible.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 20, 2006

First Ikebukuro International Art Festival

Ikebukuro Closes in 18 days
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JAPAN
Jul 18, 2006

Carbon monoxide kills chef in Ginza

A chef was found dead of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in his father's eatery in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district Monday and his parents, who discovered him, were hospitalized, rescue authorities said.
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Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Jul 18, 2006

Morijio

Dear Alice,
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 16, 2006

For Fumiko Hayashi, not every cloud has a silver lining

FLOATING CLOUDS by Fumiko Hayashi, translated by Lane Dunlop. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, 328 pp., $27.50 (cloth). Toward the end of her life Fumiko Hayashi (1903-1951) said that she did not think her work would outlive her. Happily, she was quite wrong: She remains one of Japan's most...
SOCCER / World cup
Jul 11, 2006

Domenech won't condemn Zidane

French coach Raymond Domenech defended Zinedine Zidane and accused Italy of provocation after his captain was sent off in the World Cup final on Sunday night.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 11, 2006

Multitasking recluses find route to respectability

There are many factors behind the shoshika (the declining birth rate) trend. One is mistrust on the part of Japanese women toward child rearing. The feeling is: Why have children and divest the best years of one's life bringing them up when they're likely to metamorphose into shonen-hanzaisha (underage...
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JAPAN
Jul 9, 2006

Public finally gets to see long-lost Okamoto mural

A long-lost mural by the late painter Taro Okamoto was shown to the public for the first time ever Saturday in Tokyo, following a yearlong restoration.
BUSINESS
Jul 8, 2006

Spending cuts, deferring sales tax hike, get nod

The Cabinet on Friday approved an economic policy guideline for 2006 aimed at shoring up the government's woeful finances with spending cuts and tax revisions, but leaves the dreaded consumption levy hike for a later administration to deal with.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 2, 2006

To be, or not to be published? That no longer is the question

SELF-PUBLISHING IN JAPAN: What You Need to Know to Get Started, by Kathleen Morikawa. Forest River Press, 2006, 76 pp., 1,800 yen (paper). The largest media development since the Gutenberg printing press is coming. The full force has not yet hit, but the waves are lapping our shores. Computers, scanners,...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 30, 2006

Lecture to celebrate Bach's 'inventions'

The NEC Early Music Lecture by Masaaki Suzuki, musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan, takes place July 1 at Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall. There will also be a cembalo performance as part of the same event.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 30, 2006

Digital art with a punk attitude

Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa are two Tokyo-based artists who engage a variety of technology. Working under the name Exonemo, the duo's current installation, "World B/Turn over your awareness to play the B-side," marks the 10th anniversary of the two-man collective and runs for a further two weeks through...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Jun 30, 2006

Playing to projected light

A member of Sun Ra's Arkestra from 1958, Marshall Allen was there at the inception of the avant-garde jazz scene in the 1960s. Sun Ra, who died in 1993 -- or was transported to another planet, as the eccentric artist always insisted would happen -- led one of the most experimental, and controversial...
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 29, 2006

"Tetsuya Noda Works 2000-2005"

Fuji Television Gallery Closes Saturday
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jun 27, 2006

Tadanobu Tsunoda

Tadanobu Tsunoda, MD, 79, is the author of "The Japanese Brain" (now in its 38th Japanese edition), and the inventor of the Tsunoda Key Tapping Machine. He developed this simple analog system in the 1960s, and claims it is still the most accurate machine in the world for measuring the brainstem's switch...
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LIFE
Jun 25, 2006

No end is an end in itself

Endurance riding on the Yamanote Line soon gives you a numb bum.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2006

Tax hike consensus reached to achieve 2011 budget surplus

The government and the ruling parties agreed Friday to propose a tax hike to achieve a primary budget surplus -- which excludes new bond issues and debt-servicing costs -- by fiscal 2011, government and party officials said.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 23, 2006

Brainstorm to save Shimokita

With the hip, culturally vibrant neighborhood of Shimokitazawa in western Tokyo's Setagaya Ward threatened by a major development project, participatory design group Urban Typhoon is organizing a series of workshops to raise awareness on the importance of preserving the culture of the area. The workshops,...
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CULTURE / Film
Jun 23, 2006

She sticks the boot into a male world

There aren't a whole lot of women filmmakers and even fewer of them who choose to depict fighting, mayhem and group violence.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 23, 2006

Period drama masterworks screened

The Japan Foundation Film Series presents a program of classic jidaigeki (Japanese samurai period dramas), "The Masters and Jidaigeki," from the 1950s and '60s in Tokyo, June 23-25. All films are screened with English subtitles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 22, 2006

Bringing "Lepage magic" to Tokyo

Last year, to mark the bicentennial of the birth of author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75), Denmark held a yearlong celebration titled "Andersen Project 2005." Part of the project was a special commission to French-Canadian dramatist Robert Lepage to create a play commemorating the author's life and...
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Jun 18, 2006

Retro's where the future's at

Japan's talking heads of a liberal persuasion are clearly troubled by a rising nationalistic sentiment they detect throughout the land. But while speculation on the geopolitical consequences of any such shift may be an absorbing topic, trends in the world of culture -- and the changing tastes of consumers...
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COMMUNITY
Jun 17, 2006

Still blue-eyed, but not a 'salaryman' anymore

Niall Murtagh begins "The Blue-Eyed Salaryman" with good humor and a wry, self-deprecating smile:
COMMENTARY
Jun 15, 2006

Reformers edge ahead in Chinese debate

HONG KONG -- Since Deng Xiaoping began the process of reform and opening up almost 28 years ago, China has repeatedly had internal debates, often heated, as to whether changes had gone too far.
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 15, 2006

Nihonga painter captured Taiwanese beauty

The scene was tranquil in 1927 at the newly established "Taiten" annual fine arts exhibition in the Japanese colony of Taiwan, which had been ceded by China in 1895 as a result of the First Sino-Japanese War. None of the artists practicing in the Qing Period (1644-1911) styles of Chinese painting were...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 15, 2006

Sculptor's immobile muse helped him see inner man

Art is often likened to a mirror, suggesting that what viewers really want is a glimpse of themselves. In Japan, this frequently means that any exhibition of Monet, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec -- just about any Impressionist or post-Impressionist painter, really -- is sure to elicit a few catalog essays...
COMMENTARY
Jun 12, 2006

A tenable vision of efficiency

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's structural reforms for creating a "simple, efficient government" have entered the final phase. In late May, the Diet enacted the administrative reform promotion law and four related bills aimed at continuing Koizumi's reform programs after he steps down in September...

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