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CULTURE / Art
Jul 4, 2001

Krijono celebrates Balinese women

Works in acrylic, charcoal and other media by Indonesian artist Krijono are now on show at the Indonesian Culture Plaza in Shinjuku.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 4, 2001

Baseball & Beer Blast at Sapporo Dome

Japan's sixth all-weather stadium was the setting last week as the Yomiuri Giants and Chunichi Dragons played the first official pro baseball games at the Sapporo Dome. The June 26-28 series was won by the Giants, who took the first and third games. Chunichi won Game 2.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Jul 4, 2001

Ajico gets it all together

The supergroup. What a horribly dated concept that is. It smacks of corporate rock and overinflated, believe-your-own-hype egos, as in, "Hey man, you're the coolest guy in your group, and he's the main man in his band, and without me, my band is nothing, so like, if the three of us get together, man,...
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 4, 2001

Brook's 'Hamlet' speaks straight to the soul

In his book "The Shifting Point," Peter Brook writes that when he begins work on a play, he starts with "a deep, formless hunch which is like a smell, a color, a shadow."
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 4, 2001

Latecomer on a 'momentous journey'

Working with Peter Brook, according to one of the actors in his latest production, is like setting out on a "momentous journey."
CULTURE / Art
Jul 4, 2001

'White gold' from a former copycat

The latest in a long line of events held as part of Italy Year in Japan is a show of porcelain by Richard-Ginori, an Italian company that has been molding, glazing and firing since 1735.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 4, 2001

All roads lead to 'home'

There really is no place like home, and this is fully evident in the Tokyo Opera City Gallery's hot summer show, "My Home Is Yours/Your Home Is Mine."
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2001

To shoot up, perchance to dream

Requiem for a Dream Rating: * * * * 1/2 Director: Darren Aronofsky Running time: 102 minutes Language: English Opens July 7 at Cine Saison in Shibuya An AP report the other day told of a Beijing teenager who jumped four stories to his death while attempting to sneak out to a local Internet cafe. His...
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2001

Full-speed ahead into cinematic chaos

Rush Rating: * * Director: Takehisa Zeze Running time: 110 minutes Language: Japanese Now playing at Cine Amuse in Shibuya Takehisa Zeze's "Rush" is a reviewer's ultimate nightmare: a film whose plot is all but impossible to follow, let alone describe. Walking out of the theater, I laughed -- it was...
CULTURE / Art
Jul 4, 2001

Korean imports offer glimpse of a subtle aesthetic

It is not often that such a rare and wonderfully varied collection is put on public view as that currently at the Seikado Bunko Art Museum. This special exhibition, from the permanent collection of the museum, is on display for the first time since 1994.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001

The Sherbets

Concert Preview by SIMON BARTZ The day I almost joined The Sherbets was three years back when I stumbled upon my pal Kenichi Nakata in an Ebisu bar. His group was hunched around a table in serious conversation, but he pulled up a chair for me and said, "Meet Benzie, the singer of Blankey Jet City. He's...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001

'Brotherly Love': Jack McDuff

Concord has just released "Brotherly Love," the last recording of the great soul jazz organist Jack McDuff who died in January this year.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001

The Bordeoms

Concert Preview by SUZANNAH TARTAN Eye Yamataka is a rock god. Not the blow-dried, mincing pop star kind, and not the "significant album every three years" kind, but a Dionysian force of nature -- a latter-day shaman of rhythm and noise.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001

'High Seas': Trailer Bride

Album Review by PHILIP BRASOR At first listen, Melissa Swingle's voice sounds like a joke: a fragile, sing-songy bleat that conjures up visions of anorexic country girls who write bad poetry between shifts at the local Krispy Kreme. She encourages this image on stage by wearing bright-colored shifts...
COMMENTARY
Jul 3, 2001

Focus on function, not form

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new government involves a series of changes in the responsibilities of government departments, some of which have been given new names. This will mean reorganizations of offices involving a great deal of aggravation for those concerned. It seems inevitable...
SOCCER / J. League / ON THE BALL
Jul 3, 2001

Time for Japan to take a lesson from Seoul

"Are you from Japan?"
EDITORIALS
Jul 3, 2001

A candid meeting at Camp David

There was something refreshing about the Japan-U.S. summit last weekend between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush -- not only because of the way in which the U.S. managed the meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, but also because, more importantly,...
LIFE / Travel
Jul 3, 2001

Sitting for 750 years in Fukui's mountains

Eiheiji, the "Temple of Eternal Peace," is one of the largest and most visited temples in Japan. Located 19 km northeast of Fukui, the elaborate complex of more than 70 buildings nestles on a hilltop amid a forest of towering cedar trees, many more than 750 years old.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 3, 2001

Swallows consider major move for Ishii

The Yakult Swallows are likely to allow left-hander Kazuhisa Ishii to play in the major leagues next season, one year before he becomes a free agent, club president Yoshikazu Tagiku said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Jul 2, 2001

A more active Japan would benefit Asia

LOS ANGELES -- Alarm bells will start sounding across Asia in August. That's when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi plans to visit Tokyo's most famous Shinto shrine, Yasukuni, which honors not only Japan's war dead since the 19th century but also, inconveniently, convicted war criminals, including wartime...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2001

French success has economists wondering

LONDON -- For Americans who work long hours, get only two weeks holiday a year, and live under a system that defines job security as a socialist vice, the apparent success of the French experiment is a puzzle and an affront.
COMMENTARY
Jul 2, 2001

Japan's roadblock to reform

Is there something wrong with the Japanese mentality? Is it, as some have suggested, unable to coordinate details with overall strategy, to realize that the contradictions between "tatemae" (guiding ideals) and "honne" (real intentions) or approving ideas in general while objecting to minutiae ("soron...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2001

The real backbone of Japan

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BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 2, 2001

Seibu Lions munch on Nippon Ham 10-0

Seibu's Hisashi Takayama and Kazuo Matsui belted two homers each and five hurlers blanked the Fighters as the Lions beat Nippon Ham 10-0 at the Seibu Dome on Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Jul 2, 2001

Yugoslavia bends, justice prevails

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been handed over to the international war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. He is the first head of state to be brought to the court, where he is accused of committing war crimes during the brutal offensive he launched against the province of Kosovo. The decision...
SOCCER / World cup
Jul 2, 2001

Yanagisawa fires Japan past Paraguay

SAPPORO -- Atsushi Yanagisawa banged in a couple of fine goals to steer a confident Japan team to a 2-0 win over Paraguay in the Kirin Cup at the newly opened Sapporo Dome on Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Jul 1, 2001

U.S. confronts high hurdles in Kashmir

NEW DELHI -- The United States has tried hard over the past five decades to mediate an end to the conflict between India and Pakistan. Lack of success has prompted it more recently to switch from an overt to a quiet, behind-the-scenes role as a peace broker.
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.
Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu
A tsunami advisory, shown in yellow, was issued following an earthquake in Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon.
JR East to resume production of Suica cards as early as fall
Passengers enter Yurakucho station in Tokyo on Friday.
'I didn’t know if it was real': Yui Susaki suffers shock wrestling defeat
Yui Susaki reacts after losing in the opening round of the women's 50-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday.
Top envoys to Japan set to skip Nagasaki A-bomb ceremony after Israel not invited
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (left) attends a U.S.-Japan ministerial meeting on extended deterrence in Tokyo on July 28.
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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