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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

Symbols of the fleeting world

From earliest times, when the country was known as Akitsushima (Island of the Dragonfly), insects have buzzed, skimmed and flitted through the pages of Japanese literature.
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

Alien invaders

They arrive in bunches of bananas; they turn up in containers of vegetables; they sneak in hidden inside rattan and wooden furniture; they disembark from among shipped household possessions, industrial and military equipment. They are as pervasive as the computer server virus Nimda, but, in their own...
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2001

Koizumi visits evacuated Miyake

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Saturday visited the island of Miyake, currently uninhabited after its residents were evacuated last year following volcanic activity, for the first time since his inauguration in late April.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 30, 2001

A pervasive power that goes largely unnoticed

POLITICS AFTER TELEVISION: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public and India, by Arvind Rajagopal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 15.95 British pounds, pp. 393 (paper) In "Politics after Television," Arvind Rajagopal presents a theoretically and empirically rich account of...
LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU
Sep 30, 2001

Kame no O dreamin'

Kame no O is a sake rice that has recently become popular with a number of brewers around the country. While it may not lead to the elegant, refined and lively fragrances and flavors derived from that most hallowed (yawn) of sake rices, Yamada Nishiki, Kame no O lends sake a definite character and solid,...
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Sep 30, 2001

As fate would have it

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JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Sep 30, 2001

The reluctant politician reflects on a life less than ordinary

NAGOYA -- Toichiro Kuno is as ordinary a person as can be.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2001

Japan planned initiative for Middle East peace

In an unprecedented -- but eventually unrealized -- diplomatic initiative to achieve peace in the Middle East, Japan considered brokering a summit between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Jordan next month, government sources said Saturday.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 30, 2001

An ancient cult with contemporary significance

ENDURING IDENTITIES. The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan, by John K. Nelson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000, 324 pp., 5,271 yen (paper) In 1475, a fight erupted between the priests of a shrine in Kyoto and local farmers, who claimed that the priests had unlawfully driven them off...
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

Anyone for maggots a la Japonais?

However disgusting it may seem, eating bugs is deeply rooted in many cultural traditions. In Southeast Asian and African countries, live insects are sold at markets along with vegetables and meat. At movie theaters in Asia and Africa, people munch roasted insects like they would popcorn. In China, some...
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

We are here to help you

The British archaeologist Howard Carter was excavating in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 when he found a wall bearing the seal of Tutankhamen from the 14th century B.C. He made a small hole and peered through. From his journal:
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2001

Terrorism fears prompts NPA to arm police with 1,000 rifles

The National Police Agency has decided to arm police forces across Japan with 1,000 automatic rifles to guard important facilities -- including the Prime Minister's Official Residence and the U.S. Embassy -- against possible terrorist attacks, NPA sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

Temple of 1,000 bells

KYOTO -- After an unusually hot summer, nothing is more welcome than the arrival of autumn breezes. Fall evenings in Kyoto are made even more pleasant by the bright moon shining overhead as the air is filled with a symphony of seasonal insects.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 30, 2001

Oh, to spoon under the silvery moon

The harvest moon is upon us, and where better for viewing it (God and the elements willing) than the terrace at Tsuki no Niwa, the aptly named "Garden of the Moon." Not only is it a marvelous setting, it's hard to believe it's in the heart of Minato Ward.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 30, 2001

Take a ride on the travel food choo-choo

TBS withdrew from the morning wide-show sweepstakes in 1996 after it was revealed that a wide-show producer had secretly shown members of Aum Shinrikyo a tape of an interview with anti-Aum lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto in 1989 as a means of gaining favor with the cult. Sakamoto was subsequently murdered by...
CULTURE / Music
Sep 30, 2001

Going off the beaten track

Relaxed is not a term one would usually associate with Ken Ishii. As Japan's premier techno producer and DJ, he has created a sleek, cutting-edge repertoire that is bristling with tension.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 29, 2001

Yomiuri manager Nagashima retires at end of season

Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima will step down from the helm of Japan's most popular baseball team at the end of the season, chairman of the board Tsuneo Watanabe said at a press conference Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

Meat-and-bone meal ban expected

Japan could introduce a total ban as early as Monday on imports of meat-and-bone meal, an animal feed suspected of transmitting mad cow disease, the nation's agriculture minister said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

Dispatch of Aegis ship suspended

The government will not dispatch a top-of-the-line Aegis destroyer to the Indian Ocean to back the anticipated military retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, official sources revealed late Thursday. The government had been considering sending the 7,250-ton Kongo on an intelligence-gathering...
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

ASDF planes to supply relief to Afghan refugees

Self-Defense Forces aircraft will be used to airlift relief supplies to Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda announced Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

Ex-health official guilty in patient's AIDS death

The Tokyo District Court on Friday found a former health ministry senior bureaucrat guilty of professional negligence after he approved the continued use of HIV-tainted blood products, causing the death from AIDS of a patient.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2001

Owners must test for pollution before developing land: report

Landowners should have to check property for soil pollution and clean up polluted sites prior to redevelopment, according to an interim government report released Friday that will form the foundation for new legislation.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2001

CPI falls for 24th straight month

The key gauge of consumer prices in Tokyo posted a 1.2 percent year-on-year fall in September -- its 24th straight month of decline -- mainly due to falls in housing rents and personal computers, the government said Friday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 29, 2001

Swallows sweep Dragons

The Yakult Swallows completed a four-game sweep of the Chunichi Dragons with a 6-3 triumph at Nagoya Dome on Friday to cut their magic number to clinching the Central League pennant to three.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2001

Sony revises down earnings on IT slump, U.S. attacks

Sony Corp. on Friday revised downward its earnings projections for fiscal 2001, reflecting the global economic slowdown led by a slumping information technology sector and the recent attacks in the United States.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 29, 2001

Online: Buddhist perspective on the new holy war

David Loy is a professor of philosophy and religion in the faculty of international studies at Bunkyo University in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is American, and proud to be so. He is also a practicing Zen Buddhist.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan issues first-ever alert over risk of Nankai Trough megaquake
Naoshi Hirata, chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday evening.
Magnitude 5.3 quake strikes Kanto region
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Kanto region on Friday evening.
Japanese urged to avoid panic-buying as megaquake fears spread
A sign says "bottled water is being rationed, with a cap of one case (six bottles) per each customer" in a supermarket in Sumida district of Tokyo on Saturday.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
No sumo tickets? No problem. Here are some other ways to take in the sport.
Wrestlers battle during the national women's championships in Osaka in 2018. Amateur sumo is a great way to experience the sport for tourists who are unable to get tickets to professional tournaments.
The definitive guide to Utagawa Hiroshige's masterwork is a feast for the eyes
Utagawa Hiroshige produced several highly successful series of landscape prints over the course of his career, including “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” — the largest collection of his career.
From the Bronx to Paris: Breaking set for its Olympic close-up
Shigekix, whose real name is Shigeyuki Nakarai, in action during the world championships in Leuven, Belgium, in September
Kishida looks to constitutional reform to win over LDP conservatives
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a meeting of a Liberal Democratic Party panel on constitutional reform in Tokyo on Wednesday.
In sleepy Chichibu, Japan's whisky landscape is quietly shifting
Founded in the early 2000s, Ichiro's Malt has since become a third pole in Japan's whisky world dominated by beverage giants.

Podcast

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

Longform

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

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