Issue #236

Issue #236: February 2001

 
 
 
taka kohi
japan’s middleweight champ lowers his guard
 
travel
parallel cities — china
politics
only in japan — the right’s always right

tokyo faces
sugamo — and the long sleeve kimono fire

free gifts
cooking by the book and looking back

 
 
loose lips
tongues will wag

greenpeace
anti-whaling & anti-japanese?

education
university inc. — education goes public

k-1
the good, the bad, and the boring

collector’s world
opening a can of worms

 
   
 
CityScope

performing Arts
art
music
events
greater tokyo classifieds
film
nightlife
dining
book review

 

Issue #237

Issue #237: March 2001

 
 
 
dreams
dating on the rocks
 
human icons
carving a niche in the art world
sparks
this town ain’t big enough for the both of us

pillow book
of shunga and springs

the bullying
never stopped how a young boy was driven to
suicide

 
 
catch of the day
tsukiji fish market

loose lips
he latest from the J-grapevine

free gifts
be smart, see art

big city blues
teve gardner shows the way

up for the cup
the tokyo journal soccer tournament

ohio sensei
become a good teacher now

 
   
 
CityScope

performing Arts
art
music
events
greater tokyo classifieds
film
nightlife
dining
book review

 

Issue #238

Issue #238: April 2001

 
 
 
chris ofili
when the dung hits the fan
 
people
the fear of god –
ex irish terrorist preaches peace
tokyo faces
komagome

 
 
loose lips
what the japanese are saying

free gifts
fly like a sparrow and collector’s tjs

old hat
looking back at 20 years of tokyo journal

in the classroom . . .
. . . bullying is as strong as ever

 
   
 
CityScope

performing Arts
art
music
events
greater tokyo classifieds
film
nightlife
dining
gallery interview

 

Issue #239

Issue #239: May 2001

 
 
 
i.k.u.
film goes mental
 
people
a woman fights for truth
tokyo faces
soto-kanda 2

high-tech 101
making money — tons of it

loose lips
what the japanese are saying

 
 
free gifts
collector’s tjs, art

yokota
airbase pros and cons

design festa gallery
creativity on the go

education
NAPU conquers the world

book review
tokyo confidential

 
   
 
CityScope

performing Arts
art
music
events
greater tokyo classifieds
film
nightlife
dining
book review

 

Issue #240

Issue #240: Summer 2001

 
 
 
i.k.u.
film goes mental
 
people
a woman fights for truth
tokyo faces
soto-kanda 2

high-tech 101
making money — tons of it

loose lips
what the japanese are saying

 
 
free gifts
collector’s tjs, art

yokota
airbase pros and cons

design festa gallery
creativity on the go

education
NAPU conquers the world

book review
tokyo confidential

 
   

education
 
CityScope

performing Arts
art
music
events
greater tokyo classifieds
film
nightlife
dining
book review

 

Issue #241

Issue #241: Autumn 2001

 

mario a.
 
 
land of the moonflower
of poppies and gunpowder
 
tokyo skin clinic
beauty & health

mario a.
valley of the dolls

tokyo faces
sumida, city of fat men and flat lands

tokyo goes hollywood
an interview

 
 
politics
free gifts
beer, beauty, and muscle men

politics
history repeating itself

loose lips
what the japanese are saying

 
   

education
 
education
don’t tell mom

outdoor
one-day excursions from tokyo

yokohama 2001
international triennale of
contemporary art

mot
a look at the museum of
contemporary art tokyo

 
   
   
   
 
akebono
 
 
hiroyuki nakano
roppongi ninja

tokyo disneysea
you won’t drown in water here

akebono
acquiring a new haircut
 
   
 
japanese local beer
of hops and malts

events calendar
where do you want to go today?e

classifieds

film

dining
fusion at its best

fuji rock festival
retrospective

 

Issue #242

Issue #242: Winter 2001

 

india
 
 
india
life and death on the ganges
 
butoh
taking a cross-eyed, bow-legged bow

outdoors
of snow and frozen lakes

tokyo faces
the panoramic lotus of ueno

 
 
education
politics
shinji tarutoku

psychiatry japan
going bananas in the big banana

cd reviews
pfeuti, candela

education
drama in pre-school

screen & stage
mako iwamatsu

   

theme restaurants
 
wine & dine
theme restaurants in tokyo

rock
eX-Girls

kin taii
artist interview

lennie mace
getting the ball rolling in harajuku

 
   
   
   
 
pearl harbor
 
 
yasukuni shrine
saluting the ghosts of the war dead

pearl harbor
how japan saved the world for democracy

events calendar
where do you want to go today?

classifieds

 
   

outdoor
 
spencer tunick
a nude odyssey

film
red windmills, wild foxes and more

dining
an italian dream in tokyo

tiff 14
gemstones in the rough

horrorscope
predictions and predilections

Issue #243

Issue #243: Spring 2002

 

yuho furusawa
 
 
sakamoto ryoma
the last samurai
 
yuho furosawa
dance me a tale of genji
 
 
tokyo faces
tokyo faces
struck off the map

free gifts
sake, sake, sake (and books)

politics
an evil axis of another kind
   

josiah conder
 
loose lips
what the japanese are really saying

cd reviews
gomez, fatboy slim, pet shop boys, teenage fanclub & jad fair, tsugaru shamisen

josiah conder
the brit who changed the face of tokyo

 
   
   
   
 
palace on wheels
 
 
palace on wheels
living like a maharajah

sky door
gallery interview

 
   

japan’s poster monster
 
portrait
artist natsuko taniguchi

japan’s poster monster
sleeping with a cannibal
   
   
   
 
sake
 
 
 
sake
a guide to refined drinking
events calendar
where do you want to go today?.

classifieds

book review
samurai sketches

 
   

a beautiful mind
 
film reviews
along came a spider, the shipping news,
we were soldiers, a beautiful mind

sundance film festival
digital film breaks through

hayao miyazaki
a golden bear in berlin

   
   
   
 
sasagin
 
 
 
 
dining
sasagin
horrorscope
predictions and predilections
 

Issue #244

Issue #244: Summer 2002

 

tokyo faces
 
 
katsu kaishu
japan’s samurai savior
 
tokyo faces
the golden bowery
 
 
 
now and zen
tatsumi orimoto
the breadman cometh

now and zen
the sixth estate

 
   

konishiki
 
free gifts
t-shirts, cds, and flashing cellular phone straps

konishiki
the gentle giant

 
   
   
   
 
outdoors
 
 
outdoors
believing the brochures

loose lips
what the japanese are really saying
 
   

female wrestling
 
female wrestling
ringing in the changes

thomas glover
importer of the meiji revolution
   
   
   
 
splitting hairs
 
 
 
splitting hairs
tokyo’s comb & scissors brigade
cd reviews
oasis, venus fly trapp, etc.

book review
learning the truth
 
   

die ärzte
 
die ärzte
punky ramifications

mtv japan

franchising america’s teenage dream
   
   
   
 
tokugawa trails
 
 
 
 
tokugawa trails
the road less traveled
g-art gallery
gallery interview

events calendar
where do you want to go today?

 
   

burn the floor
 
book review
ryoma sakamoto

burn the floor

leave your matchstickes at home

film reviews

star wars – episode II, the time machine
about a boy, monster’s ball

horrorscope

predictions and predilections

 

Issue #245

Issue #245: Autumn 2002

 

the tokyo daibutsu
 
 
 
 
the tokyo daibutsu
tokyo’s best kept secret
 
 
tomisaburo kuraba
madame butterfly’s tragic son
 
 
 
 
araki
 
politics
my father, the mad airport bomber
 
 
araki
not just a flash in japan
 
   

yoshida shoin
 
 
 
free gift

shrines and temples of kyoto – an english guide book

 
yoshida shoin
the archetype of japanese revolutionaries

loose lips
what the japanese are really saying

 
 
   
   
   
   
 
geisha
tokyo faces
sumidagawa – the black river
 
geisha
peek-a-boo
   

hara museum
 
hara museum
interview with yoko nakamura
 

cd reviews
dj krush, morcheeba

 
   
   
   
 
sin den
 
 
film reviews
angel eyes, city by the sea,
curse of the jade scorpion,
the last castle,
the count of monte cristo, unfaithful

sin den
naughty but nice!

classifieds

 
   
   
   

fuji rock fest
 
 
events calendar

where do you want to go today?

 
fuji rock fest
tj’s traditional review
 
   
   
   
 
by the book
 
 
by the book
traveling kyoto and nikko
 
horrorscope
predictions and predilections