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Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jun 30, 2005

"Silverfin," "Baby Touch Playbook"

"Silverfin," Charlie Higson, Puffin Books; 2005; 372 pp. For James Bond's legions of males fans (this possibly includes your father), Charlie Higson's "SilverFin" is news of the best kind. Not for this reviewer, though, who belongs to the female half of the planet and whose grouse is that there are already...
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2005

Roots of abuse borderless: Swedish reporter

As child abuse increasingly makes headlines in Japan, a Swedish journalist who has made many documentaries on youngsters says there is indeed truth to common findings that many abusive parents were victims of abuse during their own childhood.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2005

New Komeito gets its way: postal bills will wait a week

The Liberal Democratic Party caved Wednesday to a demand from its junior coalition partner, New Komeito, and agreed not to put contentious postal privatization bills to a vote in the House of Representatives this week.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 29, 2005

Pregnant Tani to miss worlds

Ryoko Tani is hoping to accomplish what no woman has ever done in Japanese sports history, when she aims for her fifth Olympic medal and first as a mother in Beijing in 2008.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 29, 2005

Could Brown's next stop be New York?

NEW YORK -- Before somersaulting into some of the specifics and subtitles of Wednesday's draft, Knicks president Isiah Thomas asked if I would be so kind as to accentuate the Detroit Shock's WNBA record comeback Sunday, reducing a 25-point deficit to beat the L.A. Sparks.
EDITORIALS
Jun 29, 2005

Imperial prayers for war victims

Japanese got another chance to ponder war and peace following the June 23 commemoration of those killed in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 -- this was the recollection of the battle for Saipan, now part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 61 years ago.
COMMENTARY
Jun 29, 2005

India: U.S. ally or independent power?

NEW DELHI -- The courtship between the world's most powerful and most populous democracies is in full swing, with a new international poll showing that at a time when anti-Americanism has spread across the globe more people in India have a positive view of the United States than in any other nation surveyed....
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2005

GSDF lying low after convoy attack

Ground Self-Defense Force troops in Iraq will remain inside their camp near Samawah for the time being following last week's roadside explosion near a GSDF convoy, Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 29, 2005

Where did we go right?

When it opened on Broadway in the spring of 2001, Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" became an instant cultural phenomenon steeped in irony. The day after its premiere, 33,000 tickets were sold at $100 each, a record high price, and the production was able to pay off its initial investment of...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jun 29, 2005

World Press prizewinning photos get to the heart of the story

Every year the Dutch-based non-profit organization World Press Photo sifts through thousands of news photographs from around the world in search of images that "represent an event, situation or issue of great journalistic importance and demonstrate an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity."...
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2005

Weather observations with domestic satellite resume

The Meteorological Agency on Tuesday returned to using its own satellite for weather observations for the first time in two years, using the multifunction transport satellite Himawari No. 6 that was launched in February.
COMMENTARY
Jun 29, 2005

A tidal wave of optimism

LOS ANGELES -- Talk about an ocean of optimism! Here's a positive current for you if there ever was one: A close friend -- whom I dub The Very Successful Korean-American Businessman (VSKAB), who doesn't want his name to be used (but whose last name is Kim like several million other Korean-Americans),...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 29, 2005

A painter of his time?

When Alfred H. Barr (the founder of the Museum of Modern Art, New York) was sketching out the shape of modern art in the 20th century -- its movements, influences and directions -- he drew a kind of family tree showing how all the different "isms" connected to one another in an evolutionary way.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Jun 29, 2005

Hidden gems in clay

Any new publication on Japanese ceramic art in English is a welcome addition to the few books on the subject. Like "Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Pottery from the Gisela Freudenberg Collection" currently showing in Frankfurt, Germany, many of these publications coincide with exhibitions and serve to...
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2005

E-commerce grew sharply in 2004

Japan saw a sharp rise in Internet-based business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce last year, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2005

Nippon Oil to raise gasoline prices

Nippon Oil Corp., Japan's largest oil refiner, said Tuesday it will raise wholesale prices on gasoline and gas oil by 3.1 yen per kiloliter in July due to crude oil price increases.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2005

'Mr. Yen' sees symbolic yuan gesture by yearend

China may make a "symbolic" gesture of addressing overseas complaints about its currency policy by slightly loosening the yuan's peg to the dollar before the end of the year, a former top currency guru said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2005

China seizes Japanese school's textbooks

Chinese authorities have confiscated 128 Japanese social studies textbooks ordered by a Japanese school in Dalian because they contain "inappropriate descriptions" of Taiwan and mainland China, government officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2005

LDP council drops consensus to stamp revised postal bills

Two months after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sent a package of postal privatization bills to the Diet, his Liberal Democratic Party's Executive Council decided Tuesday to back a revised version of them by a majority vote.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2005

116 LDP lawmakers back Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni

A panel was formed Tuesday by 116 members of the Liberal Democratic Party to support Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's contentious visits to Yasukuni Shrine for the sake of "peace" and "national interests."
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2005

Retail sales jumped 2.7% in May

National retail sales rose 2.7 percent in May from a year earlier to 10.54 trillion yen, logging the third straight monthly increase thanks to surges in petroleum product prices and brisk sales of new vehicles, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday in a preliminary report.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
A beloved Tokyo penguin’s end presages Suica’s shift to payments giant
JR East is retiring the beloved Suica penguin as part of a rebrand to transform the contactless payment platform, used for both transit and retail, into a mobile fintech powerhouse.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Ashfall warning issued in southern Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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