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CULTURE / Art
Jul 4, 2001

Krijono celebrates Balinese women

Works in acrylic, charcoal and other media by Indonesian artist Krijono are now on show at the Indonesian Culture Plaza in Shinjuku.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 4, 2001

All roads lead to 'home'

There really is no place like home, and this is fully evident in the Tokyo Opera City Gallery's hot summer show, "My Home Is Yours/Your Home Is Mine."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 2001

Men in suits spell air-con office woe

It's summer. Get ready for the big chill.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 1, 2001

1910 Exhibition remembered

THE BRITISH PRESS AND THE JAPAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION OF 1910. Edited by Hirokichi Mutsu. With a preface by Yonosuke Ian Mutsu and an introduction by William H. Coaldrake. Production: The University of Melbourne: Curzon Press, London. 212 pp., with b/w illustration. Unpriced. This is an enlarged and...
COMMUNITY
Jun 30, 2001

The Three Sisters Inn: owned by three sisters

It is not as if Kikue, Sadako and Terumi Yamada have not been interviewed before. Not so long ago it was for The New York Times, which really put them on the map.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2001

Summit eyed as launchpad for fresh ties

With Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's first summit with U.S. President George W. Bush to be held Saturday outside Washington D.C., Japan hopes to set in motion full-scale efforts to build fresh ties under the new U.S. administration.
COMMUNITY / PARENT TRIP
Jun 29, 2001

They'll thank you for it someday

"I want my child to have the advantages I never had when I was a kid." When it comes to cliches uttered by doting parents, that's one of the all-time classics. I never thought I'd find myself saying it, but as I keep finding out, parenthood is full of such ironic twists. In my case, the "advantage" in...
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2001

Postal privatization group reconvenes

A nonpartisan study group aimed at privatizing postal services gathered Wednesday for its first meeting in 18 months, apparently encouraged by the inauguration of its chairman, Junichiro Koizumi, as prime minister.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jun 28, 2001

Unraveling the nature of the beast

Nurture got a poke in the eye from nature last week, with the publication of a wide-ranging study of identical and fraternal twins that showed differences in certain attitudes are partly due to genetic factors.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2001

Panel to explore direct vote for prime minister

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday he will set up an advisory panel next month to study one of his pet policies — the introduction of a popular vote for the prime minister.
Events
Jun 26, 2001

Recession hits Osaka-based yakuza

OSAKA — The number of Osaka-based gangsters formally affiliated with Yamaguchi-gumi has fallen to almost half what it was a decade ago. But this may not necessarily be good news for law enforcement officials.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2001

Government special accounts run deficits of 10 trillion yen

Twenty-two of the 38 government-run special accounts for such services as labor insurance and postal savings have posted estimated deficits totaling some 10.48 trillion yen for fiscal 2000, according to government financial documents made available Sunday.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2001

Teacher confesses to faking knife attack

A kindergarten teacher who claimed Tuesday that she was stabbed by an unidentified woman has admitted that she inflicted the cuts herself, according to investigators. Police looking into the case said the 23-year-old female teacher at Takachiho Kindergarten in Tokyo's Suginami Ward said she made up the...
LIFE / Travel
Jun 24, 2001

Spanish city puts its foot down on dog-do plague

MADRID -- To keep them clean, most cities have their own army of street cleaners. More meticulous cities employ leaf blowers and tree-branch cutters. Madrid goes so far as to employ its own force of dog-poop cleaners.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 24, 2001

When reason became treason in China

JAPAN'S IMPERIAL DIPLOMACY: Consuls, Treaty Ports and War in China 1895-1938, by Barbara Brooks. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2000, 272 pp., $55. Why did Japan suddenly lurch from being a good international citizen in the 1920s to becoming a regional rogue in the 1930s? Usually Japan's Asian...
CULTURE / Books
Jun 24, 2001

Japan's endless search for identity

HEGEMONY OF HOMOGENEITY: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron, by Harumi Befu. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001, 181 pp., A$44.95 (US$29.95) Nihonjinron, the discourse on "Japaneseness," has been with us for quite some time.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2001

Panel considers debt-forgiveness criteria

A joint study panel of the nation's banking and business circles will work out specific conditions under which troubled corporate borrowers can ask for debt forgiveness, including their board members' resignation, industry sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2001

JAL near-collision report released

A near-collision involving two Japan Airlines planes on Jan. 31 was caused by a combination of communication mixups and maneuvering that contradicted orders from an automatic warning system, an investigative committee concluded Friday in an interim report.
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2001

Kids caught in latest cosmetics fad

Kyodo News While the nation's "kogyaru" teens, teetering through Tokyo's Shibuya district in their towering platform boots and outrageous makeup, have received their share of attention over the years, it may well be time to pass the torch — there are some new kids in town.
JAPAN / OF SOUND MIND
Jun 22, 2001

Ikeda massacre puts judicial psychiatry in spotlight

The June 8 killing of eight children by a knife-wielding man at an Osaka elementary school has inevitably rekindled the old debate about whether — and how much — judicial authorities should be able to intervene when dealing with mental patients accused of committing serious crimes.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2001

Eritrean jurist sees lessons in Japan

Japan's Constitution should serve as a guiding principle for the international community, including Eritrea, which still suffers from the aftermath of civil war, a young jurist from the country said Monday.
CULTURE / Art
Jun 20, 2001

Face to face with individuality

"Are you Korean or Japanese?" goes the question.
EDITORIALS
Jun 19, 2001

Mr. Bush off to a good start

Despite comparatively limited credentials in foreign affairs, U.S. President George W. Bush's "get to know you" summits with his European counterparts over the past week, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, greatly helped to build personal trust between the leaders. At the same time, they confirmed...
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2001

Ministry group urges equal access to work for women

The industry ministry should take "drastic measures" to enable women to work equally alongside men, a private study group under the ministry said in a recent report.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2001

Ministers split on system for mentally ill suspects

Government ministers were split Sunday over whether Japan should incorporate a new system under which suspects with psychiatric problems would receive hospital treatment at the advice of courts.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 17, 2001

China no threat to Asia just yet

CHINA AND THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY: Great Power or Struggling Developing State? by Solomon M. Karmel. MacMillan, 2000, 229 pp., 35 UK pounds (cloth). China is a revisionist state. It wants to challenge the existing international order -- or at least the way things work in Asia. The country's history,...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 17, 2001

The bright side of bamboo

BAMBOO IN JAPAN, by Nancy Moore Bess, with Bibi Wein. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 2001, 224 pp., 160 color prints and duo-tone photographs, 5,800 yen. Bamboo, the ancient, ubiquitous grass, is everywhere in Japan. Of the over 1,500 species worldwide, nearly half are found here. It...

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan