| |   Wakamatsu Festival highlights traditional Japanese crafts in historic setting
| Today's Wakamatsu Colony Festival in Gold Hill brings together history and traditional Japanese music and crafts in a day of celebration honoring the settlers of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony. Immigrants...
Top 10 live rock albums
I was a music collector as a kid, at a time when music was all about vinyl. The beauty of it was the real sense of experimentation - when you would take a chance on a record and strike gold. I found the Ramones...
This eclipse runs a ring around the others
| A rare "ring" solar eclipse is coming to California on Sunday evening — the first of its kind to be visible from the continental United States since 1994. | From our vantage point in Southern California...
Japanese woman, 73, again oldest atop Everest
| KATMANDU — A Japanese woman stunned the mountaineering world Saturday by successfully climbing the world's tallest mountain at the age of 73, setting a formidable record that could stay unchallenged for...
Ishihara eyes tieup with Hashimoto
| OSAKA — The growing populist political movement has taken another step forward after Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara announced he will create a school for aspiring lawmakers and hopes to link it with Osaka...
Excitement builds for rare eclipse, but will weather hold?
| Sales of special darkened glasses have been brisk as anticipation builds ahead of Monday's full solar eclipse above one of the most densely populated parts of the planet. | A wide stretch of the country will ...
Sex slave plaque in New Jersey riles Japanese officials
| PALISADES PARK, New Jersey — Japanese officials are asking a small New Jersey town with a large Korean immigrant population to remove a public monument dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery by t...
Economic woes, political volatility may creep into U.S. foreign affairs
| No matter who wins the presidential election in November, the United States appears headed for a prolonged period of political volatility as leaders do not seem to have good answers to voters' anxieties about...
Without fluency, debate suffers
| Regarding Natsumi Ando's May 13 letter, "Put priority on debating skills": I sympathize with Ando's obvious frustration over the lack of opportunities for debate in class. There is nothing more exciting for a...
Road for English-speaking robots
| I agree with Natsumi Ando, but I'd like to stress the importance of the mother tongue. Without a rich experience of free discussion in the mother tongue, we will never be able to effectively debate in any lan...
Back from Antarctica, Hindenburg disaster, Joban Line trains derail, Issey Miyake men's collection in Japan
| 100 YEARS AGO | Friday, May 17, 1912 Back from Antarctica | Imperial Army Lt. Nobu Shirase and four members of his Antarctic expedition returned to Yokohama yesterday aboard the N.Y.K. Nikko Maru. | Among a q...
Japan defeats Peru in Olympic qualifying opener
| Japan downed Peru in three sets in its first game of the Women's World Olympic qualification tournament on Saturday. | Saori Kimura and Yukiko Ebata led Japan with 11 points apiece in the hosts' 25-13, 25-21,...
Japan sweeps Asian rugby rivals
| New Japan rugby coach Eddie Jones won his first tournament in charge of the national squad on Saturday, when his team completed a sweep of the Asian Five Nations with a 67-0 victory over Hong Kong at Prince C...
The designer behind Lady Gaga's fashion controversies
| THEY met in 2009 when Nicola Formichetti, infatuated with pop icon Lady Gaga's image and music, decided he wanted to collaborate with her. | Named as one of the most influential forces working in fashion by t...
Like hotcakes: Bill Granger thinks the world is about to go pancake-crazy
| Well, how things change. Not a week goes by these days without me having some form of pancake and they have come to play a huge role in my life. | Take my ricotta hotcakes: they've been so popular you could s...
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