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COMMENTARY
Mar 8, 2004

Northeast Asian safety valve

The six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons held in Beijing late last month ended without agreement on ways of achieving the complete abandonment of Pyongyang's nuclear programs. Little progress was made toward resolving differences between the North on one side and Japan, the United States...
EDITORIALS
Mar 7, 2004

Life lessons from Mars

In all the excitement over the NASA Mars rovers' various landings, photo shoots, malfunctions, recoveries and excursions, another aspect of their mission has been neglected: what could be called their teaching, as opposed to their learning, mission. As Spirit and Opportunity keep fit and busy on the...
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2004

Two more arrested over Seibu Railway payoff scandal

Two more men have been arrested in connection with suspected payoffs by Seibu Railway Co. to a corporate racketeer, bringing the number of arrests in the case to 11, Tokyo police said.
Events
Mar 7, 2004

KANSAI: Who & What

Insects and the call of nature on exhibit: An exhibition on insect droppings is being held through May 31 at the Itami City Museum of Insects in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2004

Weather satellite could go up as early as November

Japan plans to resume use of its H-IIA rocket and launch a new weather satellite as early as November to replace an aging satellite, as the investigation into a failed launch last year is almost finished, government sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2004

Nichia deposits ¥10 billion in spat over patent royalties

Chemical maker Nichia Corp. deposited ¥10 billion at the Justice Ministry after a court approved its request to block the execution of a January ruling ordering it to pay ¥20 billion  to the inventor of a key semiconductor device, Nichia officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2004

Many firms cutting down on travel expenses

Almost half of the companies that responded to a survey said they have reviewed expenses for business trips by employees in the past three years, with about 40 percent reducing or abolishing daily allowances, according to a Tokyo-based private research institute on labor and industry.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 7, 2004

Sweet revenge for Jubilo in Xerox Super Cup

Former Japan defender Toshihiro Hattori gave Jubilo Iwata a victory over defending J. League champion Yokohama F. Marinos on Saturday afternoon with a 4-2 penalty shootout decision in the Xerox Super Cup.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 7, 2004

Much ado about Shakespeare: Reworking a Renaissance giant

SHASHIBIYA: Staging Shakespeare in China, by Li Ruru. Hong Kong University Press, 2003, 306 pp., 14 plates, £21.50 (cloth). It has been 100 years since Shakespeare was first staged in China. His name now sinicized to Shashibiya and even colloquialized, ("Old Man Sha"), productions of his plays continue...
Japan Times
Features
Mar 7, 2004

Cheers! Ganging up in pursuit of fine pints

On a Friday night in Tokyo, there's no place livelier than Shibuya. But on Friday, Feb. 20, four pubs there were far busier than usual thanks to a crowd of revelers on a pub crawl called "Beer Gang" -- the inaugural event of the Good Beer Club, a newly formed group already with more than 150 members...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Mar 7, 2004

Yayoi Kusama: Lost and found in art

Yayoi Kusama was just shy of 30 when she left her hometown of Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture and headed to America to meet her hero, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 7, 2004

Various artists: "Sex: Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die"

Kings Road was the trendiest street in London in the early '70s and Sex was the coolest shop on it. Owned by Malcolm McLaren and stocked with clothes designed by then-girlfriend Vivienne Westwood, Sex sold S&M gear and tops that spelled out "P-E-R-V" and "R-O-C-K" in chicken bones. And in one corner...
Japan Times
Features
Mar 7, 2004

We've seen the future of wine, and she's called Bridget Jones

Was it really only 1995 when Bridget Jones chainsmoked her way through the first of many glasses of Chardonnay?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 7, 2004

Frank McComb: "The Truth Volume One"

One of the unremarked aspects of the current '70s soul revival is that many of its practitioners haven't paid their dues. Alicia Keys was barely out of high school before she got a recording contract, and Maxwell spent more time in the penthouse listening to Marvin than he did at the club imitating him....
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 7, 2004

Being thrifty on TV Tokyo's "Sunday Big Variety" and more

On March 3, the 83-year-old actress Mitsuko Mori played the part of the Showa Era writer Fumiko Hayashi for the 1,700th time at the Chunichi Gekijo in Nagoya. Mori has been playing the part in the play "Horoki" for 43 years all over Japan.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 7, 2004

Levitation, drug claims and, er, melons blur reality in Asahara trial

The sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system that the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo carried out exactly nine years ago this month is often cited as the first mass terrorist strike against civilians, and like al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Aum's former guru Shoko Asahara is accepted as the mastermind...
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2004

EU's false trilateral dreams

LONDON -- The idea that the European Union should be run and managed by a hard core of countries, meaning France, Germany and -- if it can be coaxed along as well -- Britain, is once again doing the rounds.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 7, 2004

Kazutoki Umezu

Kazutoki Umezu's music draws on eclectic sources from around the globe and mixes them into a beguiling brew. Avoiding the high-art pretense of many postmodern mix-masters, Umezu always grounds his sound in a high-energy sense of fun. Even when zipping between klezmer, Mongolian folk songs, progressive...
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2004

Capturing bin Laden won't repair rift

ISLAMABAD -- The elimination of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- by either killing or capturing him -- would indeed boost the morale of U.S. President George W. Bush as he prepares for the presidential election in November.
Japan braces for typhoon landfall early next week
Severe Tropical Storm Shanshan is seen in a satellite image from Friday afternoon
Typhoon Shanshan gains steam as storm projected to hit broad swath of Japan
Typhoon Shanshan is forecast to approach or make landfall on the islands of Honshu or Shikoku by Tuesday afternoon, with rough weather expected from western to eastern Japan through Wednesday before hitting the country’s northeastern areas late Wednesday into Thursday.
High temperatures expected to continue in Japan through October
A construction worker in Akasaka-Mitsuke, Tokyo, on Wednesday. High temperatures are projected to linger on past the summer.
Clinical trial set to begin in Japan for medicine to help grow teeth
Inside the mouth of a mouse whose teeth were missing due to congenital anodontia (left) and the inside of the mouth after teeth were grown after taking medicine.
Why it's hard to find rice at Japan's supermarkets right now
A supermarket worker puts up a sign asking purchasers to buy only one bag per person, in Tokyo on July 25.
In Japan’s flyover country, 72 hours of hidden gems
Okayama and Tottori prefectures are some of the least-visited regions in Japan among foreign tourists — which is why they offer such a welcome break from crowd-clogged cities like Tokyo and Kyoto.
Why it's hard to find rice at Japan's supermarkets right now
A supermarket worker puts up a sign asking purchasers to buy only one bag per person, in Tokyo on July 25.
High temperatures expected to continue in Japan through October
A construction worker in Akasaka-Mitsuke, Tokyo, on Wednesday. High temperatures are projected to linger on past the summer.
Summer Sonic: The heat doesn’t matter when the lineup works
British hard rock outfit Bring Me the Horizon delivered a dramatic set that featured a surprise appearance from local metal-meets-idol group Babymetal.
Shinjiro Koizumi's criticism of LDP factions could return to haunt him
Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, 43, is the son of Junichiro Koizumi, who was prime minister between 2001 and 2006.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

The volunteer lifesavers of Nishihama Surf Lifesaving Club never know what's in store at the start of their day.
It's no simple day at the beach for Japan's volunteer lifesavers
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