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CULTURE / Music
Mar 13, 2005

Kaki King

Kaki King spent plenty of time busking in subway stations, coffeehouses and small New York clubs in the '90s. But with two critically acclaimed CDs under her belt, she now has roadies to haul up on stage her largish collection of electric, acoustic and steel guitars. She plays all these with a sophisticated...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 13, 2005

Out of the darkroom

JAPAN 1945 -- A U.S. MARINE'S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM GROUND ZERO, by Joe O'Donnell, foreword by Mark Selden, afterword by O'Donnell and Richard Lammers. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005, 88 pp., 80 b/w photos, $39.95 (cloth). In September 1945, Joe O'Donnell, a 23-year-old U.S. Marine Corps photographer...
Japan Times
Features
Mar 13, 2005

'Scorched and boiled and baked to death'

Kayo-chan was in the fifth grade when the Great Tokyo Air Raid took the lives of her parents, her grandparents and two of her brothers -- along with some 100,000 other people -- as World War II was drawing to its end.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 13, 2005

Fuji TV in a Horie to distance itself from IT man

Next month, Fuji TV will launch another batch of up-to-the-minute trendy drama series. Among them is one called "Koi ni Ochitara/Boku no Seiko no Himitsu (Falling in Love/The Secret of My Success)" starring SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as a young man who, after his small family-run factory goes bankrupt,...
OLYMPICS
Mar 12, 2005

Olympic stars named to JFA Hall

Kunishige Kamamoto and Ryuichi Sugiyama, who both helped Japan win the bronze medal at the Mexico City Olympics, were among 20 former players and coaches inducted to the first Japanese soccer Hall of Fame, the Japan Football Association said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2005

Ruling bloc, DPJ to mull Diet pension action

The ruling bloc and the Democratic Party of Japan agreed Friday to meet informally to discuss how the Diet will address pension reform and other social security programs.
EDITORIALS
Mar 12, 2005

Cedar Revolution? Knock on wood

The murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has unleashed mass protests in Lebanon. The demonstrations calling for the departure of Syrian forces from Lebanon have been tagged the "Cedar Revolution" in the West as if they, too, reflect the spirit of the democratic movements that swept Eastern Europe...
MORE SPORTS
Mar 12, 2005

It's the real thing for Kitajima

Japanese breaststroker Kosuke Kitajima has signed a sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola (Japan) for an undisclosed fee running through March 2009, the Athens Olympic double gold medalist said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Government OKs off-hours trading bill

The government endorsed a bill Friday to revise the Securities and Exchange Law so new rules can be applied to public tender offers involving stock acquisitions of one-third or greater in a company through off-hours trading.
COMMENTARY
Mar 12, 2005

Opium again driving Afghan economy

ISLAMABAD -- This month's warning by the United Nations' main drug-monitoring watchdog that Afghanistan is in danger of becoming a narcotics-driven state should hardly come as a surprise.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 12, 2005

International symposium to focus on kids' health

As director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Setagaya,Tokyo, Dr. John Ichiro Takayama is right now an especially busy man.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Skymark begins Haneda-Kansai runs

Skymark Airlines Co. started flights Friday between Tokyo's Haneda airport and Kansai International Airport.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 12, 2005

Respect carries a high price tag in Asia

I often meet people who are taking off a few months to travel through Asia. These people spend months traveling through China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, etc., but they invariably skip Japan.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 12, 2005

Oh give me a home where the roaches won't roam

For years I took my dog on walks into Saitama Prefecture so she could go pee, among other things. Now I have found similar use for Saitama myself.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Injunction a landmark decision for capital market

The Tokyo District Court's decision Friday to stop Fuji Television Network Inc. from issuing share warrants as a method to take control of Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. is being seen as propelling Japan's capital market into the future.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 12, 2005

Shaktikanta Das

CHENNAI, India -- "Do you think the tsunami will visit us again?"
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

Young cows may be excluded from BSE tests: panel chief

A government panel could reach a conclusion later this month that cows aged up to 20 months would not require BSE testing, clearing a hurdle to lift a 15-month-old ban on U.S. beef imports to Japan, the head of the panel's research team indicated Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2005

End to deposit guarantee symbolic more than strategic: economist

The upcoming removal of the government's decade-long unlimited guarantee on bank deposits is not expected to drastically change the financial portfolio of the average household, said Paul Sheard, chief economist for Asia at Lehman Brothers.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 11, 2005

Man United fans questioning Ferguson after recent results

LONDON -- Unthinkable as it may seem, given that he has made the club the most successful in Premiership history, but a significant number of Manchester United fans are turning on manager Sir Alex Ferguson, their view that the Scot should step down this summer hardened in the wake of the Champions League...
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2005

Recalling the alternative to peace

It has been 60 years since U.S. bombers destroyed much of Tokyo in the spring of 1945. Survivors of the "Great Tokyo Air Raids" -- most of them now in their 70s and 80s -- are few and far between. Words like "B-nijuku" (B-29), "bokugo" (air-raid shelter) and "shoidan" (incendiary bomb) are no longer...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Mar 11, 2005

Omotesando goes one step beyond

Omotesando has seen a flurry of buildings for up-market fashion brands open in recent years, most notably Jun Aoki's Louis Vuitton flagship store and Herzog & de Meuron's Prada tower. Now, the thoroughfare lined with trashcans inscribed with "the Champs Elysees of Tokyo" is blessed with another architectural...
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

National wealth off for a sixth year

The national wealth slipped 2.6 percent in 2003 to 2.72 quadrillion yen for the sixth consecutive year of decline.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

JAL to pare 1,400 more jobs to cut costs

Japan Airlines Corp. said Thursday it will slash 1,400 more jobs by the end of March 2008 through attrition and transfers in an effort to counter high fuel prices.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2005

Koizumi remark trips dollar but T-bill selloff not in cards

Japan is not considering unloading dollars to diversify the currencies in its foreign-exchange reserves, the country's top currency bureaucrat said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Mar 11, 2005

Wines of Washington State

Every state in America now lays claim to indigenous winemaking attempts -- from Alaskans experimenting with Salmonberry wine to alcoholic beverage conglomerates setting their sights on fallow potato patches in Idaho in a quest for inexpensive, "undiscovered" potential vineyards. The results of these...

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years