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BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 26, 2004

Japan has doubts over World Cup

Japan has reservations about playing in the first baseball World Cup partly because the March date proposed for the event would be too close to the start of Japan's season, a high-ranking baseball official said Friday.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jun 24, 2004

Girls to the fore in planning 'eye-for-an-eye' revenge

If there is an extraterrestrial college student orbiting Earth or floating invisibly among us while writing a thesis on human behavior, then current events have provided some good examples of one basic human trait: retaliation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 23, 2004

Secrets lodged underneath the skin

The Human Stain Rating: * * * 1/2 (out of 5) Japanese title: Shiroi Karasu Director: Robert Benton Running time: 108 minutes Language: English Currently showing [See Japan Times movie listings] When David Howard, a white aide to the black mayor of Washington, D.C., spoke of a "niggardly"...
OLYMPICS
Jun 19, 2004

Inoue set to lead Olympic team

Men's judoka Kosei Inoue has been named the top choice for captain of the Japanese Olympic team for the summer games in Athens, the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2004

Shareholders' meetings to begin in earnest

Shareholders' meetings will get into full swing next week, with giants Sony Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. meeting investors during the annual events.
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Jun 18, 2004

Japan, U.S. to team up in Ivy-Samurai Bowl

Matthew Calbraith Perry arrived at Uraga, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1853 to break open the then-closed-to-foreigners Japan. His arrival eventually caused the Meiji Revolution that ended the samurai era.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 13, 2004

An 'outsider' finds insight into Japan's bad-loan crisis

Just 33 years old when she headed the Tokyo Bureau of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett took an unusual route to the heart of Japan's business world.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2004

Time is ripe to establish G20

In foreign policy speeches in Washington on April 29 and Montreal on May 10, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin proposed the creation of a new group of 20 countries (G20) at the heads-of-government level as the forum of choice for tackling pressing global problems.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2004

Seoul's labor moves could destroy jobs

LUXEMBOURG -- Democracy everywhere increasingly involves politicians seeking short-run gains for themselves and small interest-groups while imposing large costs on most of the population. This trend toward cynical, zero-sum games is most evident in South Korea when it comes to the labor market. It is...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 4, 2004

Zen-modern cuisine on a higher plane

Like a lotus growing from the mud of a murky pond, Gesshinkyo is a still point of serenity amid the hubbub of Harajuku. Its simple wooden door lies just steps away from Omotesando's fashion boutiques and preening temples to high-end spending. But when you step past the the coarse-woven hempen noren you...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 2, 2004

Insatiable appetite for destruction

The Day After Tomorrow Rating: * * 1/2 (out of 5) Director: Roland Emmerich Running time: 124 minutes Language: English Opens June 5 [See Japan Times movie listings] Stership Troopers 2 Rating: * * * (out of 5) Director: Phil Tippett Running time: 92 minutes Language: English Opens...
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May 31, 2004

King Kamehameha rules supreme at Nippon Derby

FUCHU -- A mere three weeks after a 5-length win of the NHK Mile Cup, King Kamehameha once again reigned supreme, this time with a length-and-a-half record win of the year's biggest racing event, the Nippon Derby.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
May 30, 2004

Freedom in a feudal land

FINDING MONJU, by Earle Ernst. Key West: Eaton Street Press, Inc., 186 pp., 2000, $19.95 (paper). The late Earle Ernst was the author of that seminal work, "The Kabuki Theater," first published in 1956 and still in print, and the editor of the 1959 "Three Japanese Plays." While a member of the Allied...
COMMENTARY / World
May 28, 2004

New democracy masters coalition-building

HONG KONG -- Ironically, at a time when the United States is trying to bring instant democracy to the Middle East, Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, is undergoing a complex, three-tiered democratic election virtually unnoticed.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 23, 2004

2 Lone Swordsmen: "From the Double Gone Chapel"

Since 1996, Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood, under the guise of the Two Lone Swordsmen, have been busy pushing dance music's emotional range into areas it doesn't usually go. Their dark and twisted instrumental electro touches on feelings of despair, frustration and submerged violence.
COMMENTARY
May 22, 2004

China forfeits high ground

HONG KONG -- From 1842 to 1997, with two exceptions, British governors of Hong Kong avoided democratic reform. In the 20th century they did so believing that China would react badly if they enacted it.
JAPAN
May 21, 2004

Law planned to protect privacy of genetic data

The ministries that oversee health, industry and technology might establish a law to protect personal information related to human genetic data used in medical research.
COMMENTARY
May 21, 2004

Risks of Pyongyang's favors

HONOLULU -- What a week! Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is packing his bags for another trip to Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, and the United States has announced a troop transfer from South Korea to combat duty in Iraq.
COMMENTARY
May 20, 2004

South Asian peace can't wait

ISLAMABAD -- The surprise upset in India's recent elections, which saw the Congress Party take power, is unlikely to change the positive course Indo-Pakistani relations have taken. But given the two countries' long history of acrimony and the threat that hardline militants pose to the emerging peace...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 19, 2004

Surreal adventures of the image kind

The current special exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art deftly achieves two goals dear to public institutions everywhere: it educates the public -- and does so on a shoestring budget.

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