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Reiji Yoshida
Reiji Yoshida is a staff writer and deputy manager of the Domestic News Division. Since joining The Japan Times in 1993, he has intensively covered domestic politics, diplomacy and defense issues as well as the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2008
Chicken Ramen out to conquer world
Fifty years after its invention, the world's first instant noodle product is setting out to conquer the world.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2008
High court finds Suzuki took bribes, rejects appeal
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by House of Representatives lawmaker Muneo Suzuki against the two-year prison term and ¥11 million fine he received in 2004 for accepting bribes from two Hokkaido-based companies.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2008
Ishiba moves to minimize disclosure row
Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba tried Tuesday to contain the political fallout over fresh allegations that his ministry tried to cover up key information concerning the Feb. 19 collision of a warship and a trawler off Chiba Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2008
Collision suspicions pointing to coverup
The public distrust surrounding the maritime collision between a Japanese warship and a fishing boat has politicians, the fishing industry, and the relatives of two missing fishermen all thinking one thing — officials in the Defense Ministry may be hiding key information.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Feb 23, 2008
All three times a charm for couple
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Pref. — Gary and Aki Neuwirth say they have married three times. The first time was when they registered with the city office in Nerima, Tokyo, for a marriage certificate last May. Then they held a Japanese-style ceremony at a Shinto shrine in Nerima in July, as Aki's mother wished,...
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2008
Ishiba in fender-bender en route to crash-apology site
Just as Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba headed Thursday afternoon for the hometown of the fishermen missing since their boat was run over by a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, his official car collided with a vehicle being driven by a 30-year-old woman in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, police said....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2008
MSDF destroyer cuts fishing trawler in half
A Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer cut a small trawler in two before dawn Tuesday in the Pacific about 40 km off Chiba Prefecture, and the boat's father-and-son crew were missing.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2008
Obama scores big in Japan portion of global primary
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won an overwhelming majority of the votes cast at polling stations in Japan during the first-ever global primary for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2008
Ministry hopes 1880 ¥2 coin fetches 10 million times that
An 1880 Japanese gold coin, 16.97 mm in diameter and weighing 3.33 grams, is expected to fetch a record high price of around ¥20 million when the debt-ridden Finance Ministry puts it on the auction block this Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2008
Games equestrian age record looms?
Japan effectively won the right Thursday to participate in the dressage equestrian competition at the 2008 Olympics, and one of the riders will be Hiroshi Hoketsu, who is set to become the oldest-ever Japanese participant in the Games.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2008
Tsukiji looks to curb glut of pesky tourists
The Tsukiji Fish Market, one of Tokyo's most popular and well-known tourist draws, has adopted rules urging visitors to voluntarily "refrain from coming," because of sanitation concerns and the disruptions they pose to auctions.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2008
Aid to Afghan farmers seen as best tactic in opium fight
Providing developmental support to poor farmers is the key weapon against Afghanistan's opium menace, not military force to destroy poppy crops, the World Bank and the Department of International Development of Britain said Tuesday in a joint report.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2008
Tsukiji too popular to function
Visiting the famed Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo's Chuo Ward is an awesome experience for foreign tourists and it can never be too early in the morning to go.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ALSO OUT THERE
Feb 1, 2008
Referee row lifts handball's appeal
Team handball, the figurative water boy of sports, is suddenly in the game and earning the roaring approval of fans in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2008
10 sick after eating tainted 'gyoza' from China
A least 10 people in Hyogo and Chiba Prefectures have suffered food poisoning after consuming frozen "gyoza" meat and vegetable dumplings from China that contained pesticide, corporate and government officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2008
Officialdom's classic how-tos
The nature of bureaucrats hardly ever changes, even over the course of hundreds of years. As if to prove the point, documents from the 18th century that recently came to light on how to host government delegates closely resembles the wining and dining that led to scandals in the 1990s.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2008
New agency will try to increase foreign tourists
The Cabinet adopted a bill Tuesday to create a new tourist agency under the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry to help increase the growing number of foreign tourists to Japan, particularly those from Asia.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Jan 26, 2008
Pair mutually strive to broaden their horizon, perspective
Alexander Bright and Akiko Yamada first met at Cambridge University in 1999, when Bright was a graduate student majoring in materials science and Yamada, then a high school teacher, was taking a year off to study education in England.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2008
Chocolate bugs a fright and delight
It will never be said that they look too good to eat. But that isn't stopping the stream of orders for edible chocolate creepy-crawlies made to look like real beetle larvae and caterpillars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2008
H.K. banks shielded from subprime crisis: official
The subprime loan crisis is far from over and could inflict further pain on the U.S. market, but most banks in Hong Kong will not be greatly affected, the Hong Kong government's second-most important official said Tuesday during a visit to Tokyo.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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