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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2005

Nepalese children caught in the crossfire

NEW YORK -- The armed conflict in Nepal between the government and Maoist guerrillas is making victims of an increasing number of children, who have been subjected to a wide array of human-rights violations. Over the past several years, the U.N. Security Council has worked to develop a body of law intended...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 7, 2005

The god of love's guide to bedroom etiquette

THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED KAMA SUTRA, edited by Lance Dane. Rochester Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2003, 320 pp., with 250 full-color illustrations. $25.00 (cloth). The classic textbook on erotics, the "Kama Sutra," was written or compiled around the 5th century and is attributed to a sage, Vatsyayana,...
CULTURE / Music
Aug 7, 2005

Los Van Van

Fusing a variety of Latin rhythms into a potent, down-to-earth style, Los Van Van has been packing dance floors for over 30 years and shows no sign of slowing down. A Cuban institution, this wild, 15 member band is not only the most successful Latin group to arrive on the world stage from Cuba (at least,...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 7, 2005

Mao was closer to seventy percent bad

An elegant Georgian terrace house in London's Notting Hill Gate, perhaps the most upmarket area for Britain's chattering classes now that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his friends have deserted Islington, may seem an unlikely venue for a counter-revolution against Mao Zedong's revolutionary claims. Yet...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 7, 2005

No turning back the clock when the walls come tumbling down

Because earthquakes are unpredictable, people who live with them are fatalistic: There's nothing you can do except hope you're in a place that doesn't fall down on top of you. This attitude only covers naked survival, which to most people means everything, but experts predict that in a worst case scenario...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 7, 2005

Learning a foreign language is a cultural journey, too

English students of Japan, unite! You have nothing to lose but your (conversation school) chains!
MORE SPORTS
Aug 6, 2005

Colts RB James happy he made the trip after all

Now that he's in Japan, Indianapolis Colts running back Edgerrin James is finding out things aren't so bad after all.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Opponent-free panel OKs thorny postal reform bills

A special committee of the House of Councilors passed a package of postal privatization bills Friday, pushing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi toward a final showdown with reform foes in his Liberal Democratic Party in Monday's plenary session.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Victims of poison gas in China ask Japan for help

Chinese who were injured by poison gas last year from weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army asked Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aisawa on Friday to get them assistance from the Japanese government.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Bomb museum's bilingual displays give differing historical spins

HIROSHIMA -- At Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, photographs of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing and display cases of personal items found near ground zero are instantly understandable to people from around the world regardless of language and nationality, and send a clear message about the horrors of...
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Taiwan visa waiver now permanent

The Diet unanimously enacted legislation Friday to make permanent a visa waiver program for tourists from Taiwan, the second-largest source of foreign visitors to Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / 60 YEARS AND ONWARD
Aug 6, 2005

Chinatown feels Japan's tight embrace

YOKOHAMA -- Yokohama's Chinatown has been spruced up, its eateries ornately dolled up, its towering gates given a face-lift and a huge shrine adorned in gold.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

Ministry counters China swine fears

Japan does not import pork from China's southwestern Sichuan Province, where a fatal swine disease is spreading, officials at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry stated Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

U.S., Japanese policies make North Korea crisis worse: NGOs

HIROSHIMA -- The failure over the past decade of both the United States and Japan to effectively deal with North Korea has led to the current nuclear crisis, but their present policies have only exacerbated the problem, a group of nongovernmental organizations said at a symposium here Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

UNSC bid crippled as African Union refuses to join 'G4' in resolution

Japan's prospects of gaining a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council have been dealt a savage blow, with the African Union refusing to draft a joint resolution on UNSC expansion with Japan and three other nations.
JAPAN / 60 YEARS AND ONWARD
Aug 6, 2005

Koreans here inclined to assimilate to dodge racism

It was a big leap for Takae Hayama to switch from her Japanese name to her real name when she went to college.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

KDDI's 3-G subscriber numbers pass 19 million

KDDI Corp. said Friday the number of subscribers to its third-generation mobile phone service topped 19 million late last month, three years and four months after the video-capable service was launched.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2005

Outlying-isle joint defense drill slated

Japanese and U.S. troops will conduct defenses of Japan's outlying islands for the first time in their biannual joint command post exercise, Kyodo News learned Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

Spending slips 0.1%

Monthly household spending in June dropped a real 0.1 percent from a year ago to an average of 283,332, yen marking the third consecutive month of decline, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

Sapporo, Asahi lower projections over slow sales

Leading brewers Sapporo Holdings Ltd. and Asahi Breweries Ltd. said Friday they have lowered their earnings projections for the current business year due to slower-than-expected sales of beerlike alcoholic beverages.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

Forex reserves drop by $3.9 billion

Japan's foreign-exchange reserves stood at $839.66 billion at the end of July, down $3.88 billion from a month earlier, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Aug 6, 2005

Puneet Nanda

"The sari," said Puneet Nanda in Tokyo, "is a most elegant and amazing garment."
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
War refugee Aonishiki becomes first Ukrainian to win sumo tournament
Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki receives the Prime Minister's Cup from Takahiro Inoue, an adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, on Sunday in Fukuoka after becoming the first from his nation to win a tournament in the traditional Japanese sport.
Americans with four-year degrees now comprise a record 25% of unemployed workers
A job fair in Fletcher, North Carolina. The unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree-holders in the U.S. rose to 2.8% in September, up a half-percentage point from a year earlier.
Top Chinese diplomat weighs in on Takaichi’s ‘shocking’ Taiwan remarks
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum in Beijing on Oct. 27.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.

Podcast

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

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Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released Nov. 23, 1985, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since.
Eat, slurp, love: 'Tampopo' turns 40
By Weiwen Lin

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