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Tokyo: Tokyo: Whiskey Magnate Museum Moves Into New Digs
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/4/26/91253/2071
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time. Bill Murray was forced to repeat this line over and over in the movie "Lost in Translation," so you'll have to forgive us for having it stuck in our noggins. Now art aficionados can make it Suntory time during daylight hours in Tokyo with the new home of the Suntory Museum of Art.
Scenesters who know the museum's home district of Roppongi as nightclub central might be surprised to see kimonos and lacquered plates in the new modernist building, whose architect Kengo Kuma told Bloomberg News he wanted to create an "urban living room" for the artifacts. According to this week's Newsweek, it's part of a city revitalization plan called Tokyo Midtown patterned after New York City (there's even a Dean and Deluca) and hoping to draw more cultural attractions into Tokyo's city center.
Developers turned down chain stores and international names in favor of encouraging small business owners to move in to the bamboo-and-washi-paper-decorated stores, while a nearby apartment complex entices would-be shoppers to pursue their retail passions full time. So let's raise a glass to Suntory and the Tokyo Midtown project.
[Photo: Yamaguchi.net]]]> egw2007-04-26T13:16:18-05:00Sumo Surprise
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/8/17/152056/847
Hurry, hurry--tickets for the September Grand Sumo Tournament are only on sale for another ten days! Running from 10 to 24 September in Tokyo, there's nothing quite like watching the chubby fat guys push each other around. You can get the cheap seats from about $30 or splash out big for ringside for just $125--see, we told you Japan isn't as expensive as everyone says.
Of course, understanding exactly why and how they're pushing each other around is an art in itself, but the Official Grand Sumo gang have helped us out by providing the Beginner's Guide to Sumo. Obviously the goal is to get the other guy out of the circle, but it's important (although a little sad, somehow) to know that:
Striking with fists, hair pulling, eye gouging, choking and kicking in the stomach or chest are prohibited. It is also against the rules to sieze the part of the band covering the vital organs.
When we're speaking of sumo champions, we would've thought the vital organs were the layers of flab, but it sounds like they're referring to something else. Just get to Tokyo and watch them for yourself (but make sure a band covers your vital organs).
Related stories: Hands Off the Melons [Jaunted] The Sumo Fitness Regime [Mail & Guardian] ]]> amandak2006-08-18T09:50:02-05:00Search JauntedSearch Jauntedstring
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