Art

• A Japanese Artist Goes Global; Far-Flung Helpers Meet Demand forTakashi Murakami's Paintings
  (By Peter Marks. The New York Times. July 25)
  
  
  
  

Films

• Well-Crafted 'Cure' Has the Power to UnsettleA detective tracks a criminal, but peace is elusive as thriller turns the genre on its head.
  (By Kenneth Turan. Los Angeles Times. July 27)
  www.latimes.com/entertainment/printedition/calendar/la-000061045jul27.story
  
  
• Japan's New New Wave
  (by Chuck Stephens. LA Weekly. July 27~ Aug 2.)
  www.laweekly.com/ink/01/36/film-stephens.shtml
  
  
  
  

TV

• NHK drama features Japanese-American heroine
  (Kyodo/Japan Today. July 20)
  www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=45269
  
  
• Japan's new TV craze: politics
  (By Sharon Moshavi,. The Boston Globe. July 26)
  www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/207/nation/Japan_s_new_TV_craze_
  politics+.shtml
  
  
  
  

Life Style

• Love Birds Seek Discreet Nest
  (By Howard W. French. The New York Times. July 22)
  
  
  
  

In General

• Aveline Kushi, Advocate of Macrobiotic Diet for Health, Dies at 78
  (By Douglas Martin. The New York Times. July 23)
  
  
• Famed for research, Kyoto University now turning students into entrepreneurs
  (By Asako Murakami. The Japan Times. July 24)
  www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010724k3.htm
  
  
• New West Coast College, Born of the Far East
  (By Todd S. Purdum. The New York Times. July 25)
  
  
• Soka Ruling Leaves More Uncertainty Land use: Court's rejection of expansion plan jeopardizes an agreement by the school to preserve 400 acres of its land in the Santa Monicas as open space.
  (By Annette Kondo. Los Angeles Times. July 27)
  www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000061219jul27.story
  
  
• Foreign students converge on Kanazawa
  (Kyodo/Japan Today. July 28)
  www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=47955