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Jul 17, 2021 With less than one week to go before the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it feels appropriate to celebrate Japan’s participation in the games by looking back at some of the country’s most memorable moments over the years, including some surprise team victories and heroic individual performances. It all began for Japan back in Stockholm in 1912. The country has been a part of all but two of the events since — missing out in 1948 (along with Germany) due to its role in World War II, and boycotting Moscow 1980 in protest against the Soviet Union’s invas...

Jul 7, 2021 In November 2019, unsettling news broke that the bones of 187 human bodies had been excavated between 2013 and 2015 from the construction site of Tokyo’s new Olympic stadium. It turned out the area where the venue was being built was an Edo Period (1603-1868) cemetery. While the discovery wasn’t particularly surprising — old burial sites are frequently unearthed during large-scale infrastructure projects — it was enough to revive an urban legend: the Tokugawa curse. Around 330,000 square meters of land in present-day Sendagaya in Shibuya Ward, near where Olympic f...

The center of Tokyo is not a square or a tower or a statue, but a bridge. All distances from Tokyo are measured from this bridge, which is made of stone and bronze and called Nihonbashi, meaning “Japan Bridge.” A highway was built in haste in the 1960s, just before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and bathes the bridge’s old stone and road in shadow and darkness. Now, the space where the bridge straddles the river is ugly, and a professor, in 2006, put the bridge on an “Ugly Japan” list. But before there was the highway and ugliness and a Starbucks on the corner, Nihonbashi was made of wood...

Grand Forks/East Grand Forks Chamber's Shark Tank event bring fun, ideas and prizes The program got off the ground six years ago, when Wilfahrt was watching Shark Tank on TV with his wife Kristi, who thought of holding a local version of the event. Wilfahrt took the idea to the Chamber, and it has been an annual event ever since. 9:00 am, May 9, 2021 × From left: Matt Winjum, Kay Derry, Rachel Gornowicz and Tommy Kenville, pose with Michael Fridolfs (center), at the Chamber's 2021 Shark Tank event on May 5. (sumbitted photo) After having taken a hiatus in 2020 because o...

May 2, 2021 In 1962, the year Robert Whiting arrived in Japan as a 19-year-old soldier from small-town America, the United States was at the peak of its economic power. Under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, the nation had embarked on a quest to put a man on the moon and its Peace Corps volunteer aid program was dispatching idealistic young Americans abroad to help countries in need. Tokyo Junkie, by Robert Whiting 384 pages STONE BRIDGE PRESS Meanwhile, the Japan in which Whiting found himself was still struggling to recover from defeat in World War II, and Tokyo was tearing itsel...