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Minoru Matsutani
JAPAN
Dec 15, 2009
Proposal followed fight over feline
. I had been involved in triathlon for two or three years. Kentaro: It was my first or second time to join the triathlon training group when we met. She and I both lived in Oizumi Gakuen (in Nerima Ward, Tokyo). She taught me how to swim.
JAPAN
Dec 15, 2009
Cop who couldn't hold it nabbed
A police officer has been arrested for allegedly urinating from a Tokyo train platform, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2009
Child custody division set up
The Foreign Ministry has set up a new division to handle international child custody issues in response to overseas criticism that Japan allows Japanese mothers to take their children away from their divorced partners.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2009
Don't be like U.S.: Michael Moore
American movie director Michael Moore came to Japan for the first time Monday to plug his new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" and to urge the country not to follow the path taken by the United States, where he says the gap between rich and poor is extreme.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Dec 1, 2009
Entrepreneur taps his foreign nature
Harry Hill, president of TV shopping channel operator Oak Lawn Marketing Inc., received a lot of discouraging comments from Japanese when he thought about selling the "Billy's Boot Camp" exercise DVDs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2009
Railways weighing merit of installing surveillance cameras
Tokyo-area railways recently started considering the installation of surveillance cameras inside trains to deter groping and other offenses that can occur in crowded situations.
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Nov 24, 2009
Rock Challenge Japan sets youthful energy, idealism to music
Hip hop, pop, ballade and minyo Japanese folk formed the musical backdrops in the Rock Challenge Japan 2009 last week, a dance performance by and for high schoolers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Nov 17, 2009
Showbiz means to an end, not goal
Chuck Wilson, 63, is a fitness trainer. But he was — and arguably still is — far more famous as a funny foreigner who speaks in a defiantly casual and blunt manner to TV personality bigwigs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2009
Informants to split ¥10 million bounty on fugitive
Police plan to split the ¥10 million reward among multiple informants who helped lead to the Tuesday evening collar of Tatsuya Ichihashi in Osaka, marking the first such payout since the bounty system was introduced in April 2007, a National Police Agency official said.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2009
Senators to Obama: Press Tokyo on parental child abductions
U.S. President Barack Obama has been sent a letter signed by 22 senators urging him to address the issue of international parental child abductions during his summit in Tokyo this week with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 10, 2009
As status symbol, it tops the rest
The commercial-residential complex of Roppongi Hills opened six years ago, boasting offices, a museum, cinema, condominiums, restaurants and shops, becoming a popular tourist destination and a high-status residence in a part of central Tokyo otherwise known for its nightlife dens.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2009
Japanese URLs no big deal
Being able to use kanji, hiragana and katakana for Web site addresses would not greatly enhance convenience for Japanese because many are familiar with English and search engines such as Yahoo and Google already enable searches in Japanese, Internet industry experts said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2009
Hot-air balloon festival kicks off
Colorful hot-air balloons lifted off Friday into the clear sky along the banks of the Kase River in the city of Saga as the annual Saga International Balloon Fiesta started amid a forecast for favorable weather conditions.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Oct 31, 2009
Frenchman finds ideal in temple's 'better half'
Anthony Deville always dreamed of marrying an Asian woman.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2009
Halloween treats retailers' new trick
Retailers and sweets makers are cashing in on the rising enthusiasm among Japanese for Halloween, a Western tradition that has become popular here only in the past decade.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Oct 17, 2009
Couple settled down after roller coaster ride
For Susan Tanaka, her story with her husband is like a roller coaster, as the two spent eight years dating and breaking up.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2009
Savoie returns to U.S. to work out next move
Christopher Savoie, an American freed Thursday from a Fukuoka Prefecture jail after being arrested for allegedly trying to abduct his children to regain custody, flew back to the United States Friday after promising prosecutors he would not contact his kids without going through lawyers, his lawyer said...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2009
Taiji tests residents' hair to gauge mercury levels from dolphin meat
Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, has taken hair samples of residents to determine how much methyl mercury is in their bodies from dolphin meat they have eaten linked to the town's contentious annual slaughter of the mammals.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Q&A
Oct 10, 2009
Custody laws force parents to extremes
The high-profile case of Christopher Savoie, a Tennessee man who was arrested in Fukuoka Prefecture for snatching his two children from his Japanese former wife and now faces kidnapping charges, illustrates the extremes a partner in a broken international marriage will resort to for child custody.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2009
School mulls action against principal in pot bust
An international school principal arrested Sept. 28 on suspicion of attempting to smuggle marijuana into the country faces further punishment following her suspension, an official of the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo said Friday.
South Korea's Yoon backs down after parliament rejects martial law
Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul, after South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday evening.
BOJ weighs case for first triple hike since Japan’s bubble burst
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda reiterated in an interview published Saturday that authorities will raise rates if the economy performs in line with projections.
Australian says romance scam tricked her into smuggling drugs into Japan
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling 2 kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.
Jetstar Japan loses lawsuit over disciplinary action against cabin crew
Jetstar Japan has been ordered to pay back wages to two cabin crew members for the periods they were suspended.
Nomura CEO takes pay cut after former employee charged with attempted murder
Kentaro Okuda, CEO of Nomura Holdings, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Yoon’s gambit a tempest in a teapot for financial markets
A screen displays market data at Hana Bank in Seoul on Wednesday.
U.S. Space Force launches first unit in Japan
Activated on Wednesday, U.S. Space Forces Japan — a component similar to the one established at South Korea’s Osan Air Base in 2022 — will operate out of Yokota Air Base in the city of Fussa, western Tokyo, with a staff of about 10.
Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.

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