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A round-the-world trip -- all on airline points
KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic — We had been collecting frequent-flier points for years. My husband, Keith, and I thought that, yes, of course, we would use them. We would fly around the world. Business class. Maybe next year. Queen Latifah shoved...
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Shopping: Kimora Lee Simmons launches skin-care line at Ron Robinson [Updated]
All The RageKimora Lee Simmons launches skincare line at Ron Robinson and more southern California shopping news.... -
Rare survivors in Japanese village that was mostly sucked out to sea
Looking back, Emiko Chiba has no idea how long her silver Suzuki rode the waves of a giant tsunami or even whether she had trouble breathing inside of it. What's clear is that she ranks among the very lucky in what may be Japan's most unfortunate town....Tags: Natural Disasters, Japan, Swiss Confederation, Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Reporter's Notebook: Finding peace in busy Japan
When I'd think of Japan, I'd picture cherry blossoms, Buddhist pagodas, geisha and what was probably the most delectable sushi on the planet. Likely because these were the images inscribed in my mind from history books and travel guides.
Fascinated...Tags: Dance, Japan, Culture, Tokyo (Japan), Health
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Haiku for an ailing father
Sick on a journey--
in my dream staggering
over withered fields.
This is the last haiku ever written by the 17th century Japanese poet Basho Matsuo. He dictated it from his deathbed in a rented room over a florist's shop in the city of Osaka, in the...Tags: Buddhism, Customs and Tradition, Death, Trips and Vacations, Poetry
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Long Beach master John Nyquist carves a reputation for midcentury classics
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSHIRLEY NYQUIST, the vivacious record-keeper of her husband's furniture-making business, pulls out a typewritten list from 1960 showing a walnut armchair with sculpted back and upholstered seat priced at $125. And today? That same chair would be $4,500....Tags: Arts, South Dakota, Death, Cerritos, Furniture
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My Jewish Catholic Shinto Greek Wedding
The Day Before
I am so stressed helping my dear friends finalize the plans for their incredibly complicated wedding that I have begun to mumble to myself. Even more frightening, I am answering! What were they thinking? What was I thinking in agreeing?...Tags: Japan, Athens (Greece), Judaism, Los Angeles, Christianity
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Tour of Japan may get steamy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGet steamed in natural hot springs and visit ancient castles, gardens and a sleeping volcano on a tour that takes Westerners into fresh corners of Japan. Among other highlights, participants will tour the forested island of Miyajima and its torii,...Tags: Hot Springs, Japan, Osaka (Japan), Bodies of Water, Los Angeles Times
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Princess Mononoke
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 29, 1999 Animated it definitely is, but "Princess Mononoke" is no Disney movie, not even close. A $150-million-grossing phenomenon in its native Japan, the most popular home-grown film in that country's history, it marries a...Tags: Bob Weinstein, Miramax Films, Movies, Harvey Weinstein, Jada Pinkett Smith
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Nara, past-perfect imperial city
Special to The TimesA thousand tame deer roam its streets. Virgin forests stretch two miles into the city's heart. Footpaths are lined with ancient stone lanterns. A willow-rimmed pond downtown mirrors a towering pagoda. Nara is as singular today as it was when founded 13...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Japan, Customs and Tradition, Museum Dioramas
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Tokyo, for the very first time
Times Staff WriterI woke with a start about 5 a.m., my elbow knocking against a plastic wall as I turned over. Why, I wondered, was I sleeping in an MRI machine? I wasn't. I was in Capsule 2052, a lower, at Capsule Hotel Fontaine Akasaka in the western part of Tokyo. I...Tags: Hideki Tojo, Dining and Drinking, Japan, Buddhism, Death
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