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CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Dec 8, 2002

Expat writers shoot from the lip

FACES IN THE CROWDS: A Tokyo International Anthology, edited by Hillel Wright. Printed Matter Press: Tokyo, 2002, 254 pp., 2 yen,500/$25 (cloth) "Faces in the Crowds" is a hyperkinetic grab bag that brings work by a cross section of Tokyo's expat writers, and Japanese writers working in English, together...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Dec 8, 2002

More than meets the ear

There's just not enough time to write up every good jazz band in Tokyo. As the year draws to an end, I find myself with a backlog of quality musicians who play regularly in the capital. So, in order not to leave out any great picks, here's a Christmas list for your listening pleasure. These players'...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 8, 2002

Capital transports of restricted delight

It's got the party places. It's got the party people. Now if only someone could come up with a way to get the people to the places, Tokyo could truly call itself a 24-hour city.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 8, 2002

Brief encounters in the darkness

It stirs to life when the high-rise office lights click off floor by floor, when bleary-eyed men in suits drift away to their homes in the suburbs and beyond. It simmers with activity even as the most garrulous crows snooze beneath the stars.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 8, 2002

It can be a royal pain to be in the family

Bowing to the media's ongoing obsession with the returned abductees, the first birthday of Princess Aiko passed with little more than token coverage.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 7, 2002

Edmundo moving on

J. League first-division club FC Tokyo has parted company with Brazilian striker Edmundo following stalled talks on a new contract, club officials said Friday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 7, 2002

Giants reward hurler Kuwata

Yomiuri Giants right-hander Masumi Kuwata on Thursday got a 100 million yen pay raise and re-signed a single-year contract with the Japan Series champion worth an estimated 240 million yen.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 7, 2002

Yawara-chan, Tani to tie the knot

Judoka Ryoko Tamura is set to announce her engagement to baseball player Yoshitomo Tani of the Orix BlueWave, sources close to the Olympic and world champion said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2002

Controversial Aegis dispatch

Whether or not to send an Aegis destroyer to the Indian Ocean has been a touchy question ever since Japan indirectly joined in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan about a year ago. The question was settled, officially at least, earlier this week when the government decided, after hemming and hawing,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 7, 2002

Journeying back to tribal roots with eagle feather

Two years ago, after more than a decade in Japan, Shirley (Blackstar) Macdonald and her husband, Chris, decided it was time to go home. Now they run Eagle Feather Gallery in Victoria, British Columbia, with a magnificent cedar house in deep forest north of the city. A long way from working in Tokyo,...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Dec 7, 2002

Japan: Where every day is a diet date

It's the holiday season and on my planet, the United States, that means people are preoccupied with how to stay slim during this season of indulgence. Magazines typically feature articles on how to burn calories by doing ordinary things -- such as walking to the mailbox instead of driving, or by choosing...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Dec 7, 2002

NATO's Balkanization begins

MOSCOW -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established after World War II to protect Western Europe from a possible Soviet invasion. Once the Soviet empire crumbled, it was left without a purpose. In the euphoria of 1989-1991, it seemed that democracy and humanism had triumphed throughout Europe,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 7, 2002

Mitsunori Seino

A European missionary who many years ago established a school in the hill station of Darjeeling said every person has two basic requirements in life: cleanliness and books.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 6, 2002

Top players coming for Toray PPO

Jennifer Capriati will make her first appearance on a Japanese court since 1992 when the American plays in next month's Toray Pan Pacific tennis tournament, organizers announced Thursday in Tokyo.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 6, 2002

Newcastle's Robson set for dramatic return to Nou Camp

LONDON -- Dreams, apparently, do come true.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2002

Blocs should transcend members' shortcomings

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- As long as regional cooperation develops in various parts of the world, it is only natural that some concerns are voiced from time to time, especially about the composition of these groupings.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 6, 2002

Shingo, 'Jumbo' open with 62s

Shingo Katayama and Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki both equaled the course record of 8-under-par 62 Thursday to take the joint lead after the first round of the season-ending Nippon Series JT Cup.
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2002

Aceh on the brink of peace

At long last, there is an end in sight to the two decades of deadly conflict in Indonesia's separatist province of Aceh. The Indonesian government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the Free Aceh Movement, the guerrilla group established in 1976, are expected to sign a peace agreement in Geneva next...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU
Dec 6, 2002

Rice vinegar is key to the pause that refreshes

I must admit I have never been a huge fan of televised sports. Most holidays, growing up in the eastern United States, I was in the kitchen, either cooking or dispensing advice on food and otherwise.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 6, 2002

Matsui happy to hear Red Sox interested in his services

Free agent slugger Hideki Matsui said on Wednesday he is thankful for the interest the Boston Red Sox are showing in acquiring him for next season.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 6, 2002

New washoku comes of age

Trends are only ever truly visible in retrospect, but all the indications are that 2002 will be viewed as the year in which washoku -- Japan's native, homegrown food -- finally made its big comeback.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2002

Refer grim 'futurologists' to Adam Smith

GUATEMALA CITY -- It is both telling and disturbing that so many of those wishing to be regarded as "futurologists" seem to prefer Thomas Malthus to Adam Smith. For his part, much of Malthus' work was premised upon a view that world conditions are essentially static.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 5, 2002

Pierce, Walker can forget about Athens

NEW YORK -- Like teammate Paul Pierce (and Baron Davis), Antoine Walker has no chance of being asked to play on the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. Taunting Larry Brown last season, among other coaches, has come back to haunt him.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 5, 2002

Inoue undergoes ankle surgery

Olympic and world champion Kosei Inoue has undergone surgery to remove bone chips from his left ankle but is expected to compete at the Jan. 11-12 Kano Cup international tournament as scheduled, Japanese judo officials said Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 5, 2002

Ono replaces Kimura at Sanfrecce

Takeshi Ono on Wednesday was named the new manager of Sanfrecce Hiroshima following the departure of Takahiro Kimura, who resigned earlier in the day after his side was relegated to the second division on the final day of the J. League season.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2002

DPJ must assess its crisis

The resignation of Mr. Yukio Hatoyama as president of the Democratic Party of Japan, just two months after his re-election, is probably the most poignant reminder yet that the nation's largest opposition party is deeply divided. On Tuesday, taking the blame for his abortive plan to forge an opposition...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Dec 5, 2002

Carping over muddy ponds

Me and Mr. Matsuki, we're developers. There -- I've said it. We actually alter habitat. We haven't got around to making golf courses yet, but about 10 years ago, when I bought another section of land to add to what is now the Nagano prefectural Afan Woodland Trust, there was a large section of it that...
Typhoon Ampil lashes eastern Japan with heavy rain and wind
Waves crash ashore amid Typhoon Ampil on Tokyo's Hachijojima Island on Friday. The dangerous storm is brushing by the Kanto region but will not make landfall.
Takayuki Kobayashi set to announce LDP presidential bid
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takayuki Kobayashi speaks to reporters during a visit to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
Love was a most subversive affair in Edo Japan
Only two other class of persons were treated with anything like the merciless ferocity meted out to lovers: subversives and Christians.
The rule of law is coming for Putin
Efforts to hold the Kremlin accountable for the war in Ukraine have begun, with the International Criminal Court already issuing arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and others for unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
Dreading the Big One? How to manage pre-disaster anxiety.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but there are strategies to keep yourself from spiraling into stress and despair over future catastrophes.
Dreading the Big One? How to manage pre-disaster anxiety.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but there are strategies to keep yourself from spiraling into stress and despair over future catastrophes.
New tales in translation to give you chills and thrills this summer
For centuries, Japanese people have been scaring themselves with horror stories as a way of cooling down during the stifling summer months.
Women's sumo takes big step forward with first high school championships
Yuzuki Komiya (left) competes in the first national high school sumo tournament for girls in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.

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Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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