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LIFE
Mar 23, 2008
Tokyo's thrilling new fashion feast
With an improved turnout and more labels on the runways, last week's Japan Fashion Week '08-'09 Autumn / Winter Collection was, on paper, a near- soaraway success.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Mar 16, 2008
Ultraman the hero ... again!
SCENE ONE — Television production company Tsuburaya Productions' "Monster Archive," a two-story wooden shed used for storing "monsters" from long-running TV and film franchises such as "Ultraman." The location is Kinuta, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo; the date is mid-February 2008.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Mar 16, 2008
A purrfect place for fanciers of felines
The 20th of this month marks the first anniversary of Cat Cafe Calico's opening to the public.
LIFE / WEEK 3
Mar 16, 2008
Skeptics nix 'comedy' drive to officially fight the flab
A sharply besuited young woman comes home and finds her dad downing a mug of beer in the kitchen, with an assortment of snacks on the table. She playfully warns him, pointing to his potbelly: "Oto-san (Daddy)! You're drinking again! You are eating too much, aren't you? Metaborikku Shindoromu (Metabolic...
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Mum fights nuke power
Yurika Ayukawa, the special adviser on climate change to the environmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature Japan (WWF Japan), believes the key to combating global warming lies in changing humans' means of generating energy.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Polar pioneer sets her sights high
For her doctoral thesis, Kazuyo Sakanoi studied the mechanisms of flickering auroras — those luminous phenomena in the atmosphere that appear like curtains of light.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Cancer specialist beats the odds
For breast surgeon Takako Kamio, 53, science is all about going to your limit to seek the truth.
Japan Times
LIFE / THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Feb 24, 2008
Mother of 2 leads the way
Izumi Washitani is not only a professor of conservation ecology at the top-flight University of Tokyo, she's also a committed activist who applies her studies to restoring threatened biodiversity.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2008
Up and away on a latte flight of fancy
It's a clear Wednesday morning and I have a very good view through the windows of my Cessna 172. We took off from Chofu Airport in the western suburbs of Tokyo a few minutes ago. I am already 4,000 feet up in the sky over Tokyo, flying stably north at about 185 kph. I am keeping my hands rigidly on the...
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008
A 'Wonderland' where monks call for foreign air strikes
Burma is a topsy-turvy sort of place, where surprises lurk and suddenly jump out at you.
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008
Eyewitness: Burma from the inside
Burma's Bloody September came home to people in Japan with the slaying of veteran freelance photojournalist Kenji Nagai on Sept. 27, 2007 in Yangon during a mass demonstration. The video clip showing him being gunned down by a Burmese soldier at point-blank range was repeatedly aired, arousing public...
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008
Stricken land of soldiers and slaves
The Saffron Revolution is Burma's 9/11; much will never be the same again after the killing, arrest and torture of monks by the government.
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008
Film focuses on 'the other Burma'
Here, in Irene Marty's film titled "In the Shadow of the Pagodas — The Other Burma," we encounter the wretched of the Earth. This haunting documentary gives a voice to Burma's traumatized ethnic nationalities, taking us to the war-ravaged border regions where internally displaced people struggle to...
LIFE
Jan 27, 2008
Citizens routinely denied legal rights
The contrasts between constitutional provisions for crime suspects in Japan and their actual treatment are stark, say critics of the system.
LIFE
Jan 13, 2008
Fighting the flab and shaping up can also be a lot of fun
New Year's resolution? "Doing more exercise," you may say.
LIFE
Dec 23, 2007
One missionary's 'swamp' is another's 'religion allergy' challenge
"For 20 years I labored in the mission. The one thing I know is that our religion does not take root in this country."
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2007
A drama of our own making
One recent sunny afternoon, I set off for a performance of "Tokyo/Olympic" by the city's Port B theater company.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2007
Tunnel visions
I don't know about you, but when I'm walking along train tracks and I hear a train approaching, my instincts tell me to get out of the way, fast. So, last month, when I was strolling along the sleepers of one of Tokyo's underground lines and I detected a distant rumbling, that's exactly what I did.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2007
Tokyo's real floating world
One interesting phenomenon this year has been the growing popularity of tours to such unlikely places as factories and old bridges, where grimy stone walls, rusting mazes of pipes and crumbling concrete constructions have become a lure for worshippers at the altar of brutalism. In many ways, these tours...
Japan Times
LIFE
Dec 9, 2007
A country defined by fish
Culture and cuisine are closely intertwined in Japan, and especially as regards seafood.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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

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