Asia Pacific Perspectives: Japan+, October 2004, Volume 2, Number 6
 

Features:

• Design: Everyday Designs The Japanese Design Today 100 exhibition highlights the design of everyday objects.
   
• Astronomy: Heavens Above  Japan's amateur astronomers show their passion for gazing at the nighttime skies.
   
• Special Feature: Getting to Work  Unemployment remains a persistent problem, and graduates are finding.
   
• Dance: Unearthing New Talent  The Toyota Choreography Award is nurturing a new generation of innovative choreographers.
   
• International Contributions: Building a Place to Call Home Japan is supporting UN projects to resettle Afghan refugees.
   
• People: The House under the Banyan Tree Miwa Natori runs a home in northern Thailand for HIV-infected orphans.
   
• Interview: Yoshiaki Ishizawa  As a historian, Ishizawa has spentmost of his life working on the restoration of the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia.
   
• Traditional Art: Cloth Fit for a King Miyako jofu is a sumptuous cloth from Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture, once worn by high officials of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Columns:

• Cinema

• Environment

• Lifestyle

• Selection/Letters

• Government