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LIFE
Jul 27, 2008
Cipangu's landlocked isles
Thirteenth-century Japan has this in common with early 19th-century Japan: a land culture paying scant heed to the sea until the sea, as though in outrage, rises up and compels attention.
LIFE
Jul 27, 2008
Japan's sea view through the ages, in poetry, prose and plain speaking
At Tafushi Cape / Those gracious men of the court / gather seaweed. — "Manyoshu" (7th century)
Japan Times
LIFE
Jul 27, 2008
Was the 'Japanese Renaissance' lost at sea?
Last week, Japan celebrated Umi no Hi (Marine Day). First observed as a national holiday in 1996, Marine Day marks the anniversary of the return of Emperor Meiji from a boat trip to Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido on July 20, 1876.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jul 20, 2008
Temporary arrangements
Akio Watanabe knows what a dead end feels like.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jul 20, 2008
What's that smell?
No one in Japan can avoid the sweat and smells of hot humid summer, regardless of sex, age or ethnicity. But a recent survey on body odor reeked of bad news for men.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 22, 2008
Grounded rulers of the sky
His sharp, calm gaze follows yet another aircraft swooping down from the cloudless sky, its tires screeching in clouds of blue smoke as it returns to Earth on Haneda's concrete runway. One more flight successfully completed, he thinks — and now the next.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 8, 2008
Dutch women bid for techno parity
AMSTERDAM — Seen from Japan, a country known for dragging its feet in terms of gender equality, the Netherlands is often regarded as a model of social enlightenment.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 8, 2008
Viva matsuri!
To commemorate 100 years of Japanese emigration to Brazil, and the countries' continuing close links, taiko drummers from both cultures will be powering a huge festival set for Sao Paulo on June 21
LIFE
May 25, 2008
Sonoko
"You're a strange girl!" muttered my mother, shaking her head.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 27, 2008
Musashi: A do-or-die warrior not to be crossed
When he killed his first man, Miyamoto Musashi was a mere boy of 13 — in present-day terms, a first-year junior-high-school student.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Apr 20, 2008
Dining out with a box of fine fare
Tasty, healthy and wasting nothing; traditional Japanese cuisine served on a hakozen table distills many of the country's dying cultures.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Apr 20, 2008
Belly-laughs boffin puts mirth to the test
When people laugh, it is often their cheery sounds or the wrinkles around their eyes that mark out their mirth. Yoji Kimura believes, however, that the key to determining the nature of laughter lies in the diaphragm.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Apr 20, 2008
Soccer that's played the wheely way
I like soccer. I like to watch it. I even tried to play it a few times when I was a kid, though I was not good at sports that didn't require me to use my hands, so I switched to tennis and basketball. But I can imagine how skillful you have to be to play football well, and how much fun and how exciting...
LIFE
Apr 13, 2008
Art and life in a grain of rice
Artist Mitsuaki Tanabe is stubborn.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 13, 2008
Japan's tragic 'Titanic of Turkey'
The jagged rocks off Oshima Island break the surface of the ocean like so many knives strewn across the shallow water. Even on a calm day, they are a menacing reminder of the maze of reefs that surround this island in the Pacific just off the coast of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, in central Honshu....
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 30, 2008
Why bother to set mercury limits that are ignored?
The following are the results of certified and documented tests of Total Mercury (T-Hg) found in random samples of dolphin meat purchased from supermarkets in Taiji and Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, in 2006-2008.
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 23, 2008
Plenty of promise here for the boys
Although Japan Fashion Week doesn't exactly overload on men's fashion, with only a handful of quality designers showing this season, the outlook from the '08-'09 Autumn / Winter Collection is generally positive.
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 23, 2008
A stunner!
Tensions were higher than usual at GVGV's show last Saturday night that closed this Tokyo Fashion Week, as the nine-year veteran brand presented a stunning collection on a specially made shiny vinyl runway.
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 23, 2008
What the world has to say . . .
"In Japan's short history of contact with Western fashion, we have lacked a 'bourgeois vs. high society' tension to portray in this showmanship world of fashion. Instead, most of the grandeur has come from the street." — Naoko Hasegawa, VP of Chang Co., Ltd. Apparel Company
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 23, 2008
Oh what an extravaganza
Even the heavens were smiling on Tokyo Girls Collection. Balmy 19-degree temperatures — the year's highest up until then — provided the perfect setting last Saturday for the Spring/Summer edition of this hugely popular fashion-show-cum-showbiz extravaganza, allowing most of the 22,000 teenage and...

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