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Reader Mail
Apr 17, 2008

More station surveillance needed

The March 27 article "Teen held in deadly train platform push" reports on a plotting teenager who took the life of a 38-year-old Okayama prefectural employee. Evidently, the teen not only committed murder but also had a 12-cm knife in his bag. This murder and other station-related deaths have increased...
CULTURE / Music
Apr 4, 2008

Utada Hikaru "Heart Station"

Here's a question: If more than 8 million people have already bought Utada Hikaru's "Flavor of Life" as a physical or download single, do they really need it on an album too?
Reader Mail
May 27, 2007

Alienation at the police station

Two weeks ago my husband and I went to the Azabu police station in Tokyo to report that my wallet had been stolen. At the time it was stolen, I was at an English pub with my non-Japanese friend. The police insisted that they get her last name and address even though she wasn't the one who was suspected...
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Mazda opens hydrogen gas station

Mazda Motor Corp. said Wednesday it recently opened a hydrogen filling station near its headquarters in Hiroshima Prefecture for the development of hydrogen rotary vehicles.
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2004

New complex opens near Tokyo Station

Marunouchi Oazo, a multipurpose commercial complex just north of JR Tokyo Station, opened Tuesday and is expected to be the new face of the neighborhood.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2002

Life term urged for accused in Tokyo Station shop killing

Prosecutors demanded a life sentence Monday for a man charged with fatally stabbing a convenience store manager at JR Tokyo Station in July.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2002

Teens sentenced for fatal beating at train station

The Tokyo District Court handed down indeterminate sentences of three to five years Tuesday to two 19-year-old boys who fatally assaulted a banker on a train platform in Setagaya Ward in April.
COMMUNITY
Feb 3, 2002

The Ponshu-kan: A small taste of heaven in Echigo Yuzawa Station

Echigo Yuzawa Station is a well-trod portal to Niigata's famed snow country, bustling this time of year with the comings and goings of skiers and boarders. But however fine the powder, there's an excellent reason to linger: The Ponshu-kan (Sake Museum) located in the station.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

LAN trial set for Tokyo Station

Japan Telecom Co. and East Japan Railway Co. later this month will launch a joint experiment providing Internet service over a wireless local-area network at JR Tokyo Station.
JAPAN
May 5, 2001

Man dies after being beaten into coma at train station

A 43-year-old man who was left in a coma after four young men attacked him April 28 on the platform of the Tokyu Denentoshi Line's Sangenjaya Station died at a Tokyo hospital Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2001

Worker's comp urged for train station hero

The parents of a South Korean man killed by a train in Tokyo on Jan. 26 have applied to the government for workers' insurance, the man's former employer said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Funeral rites held for men killed in failed station rescue

Funeral rites were held for two men who were killed by a train Friday night when trying to rescue a drunken man who had fallen off the platform onto the tracks at JR Shin-Okubo Station on Tokyo's Yamanote Line.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2001

Japanese astronauts get go-ahead for space station

Two Japanese men were officially recognized as astronauts on Wednesday by The National Space Development Agency of Japan, making them eligible to take part in the International Space Station project.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2001

Man stabs vendor at Tokyo station

Police arrested a 63-year-old man Monday for robbery and assault after he stabbed a male shop clerk near the Yaesu central exit of JR Tokyo Station.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2000

Biker sues Osaka TV station for staging role in rampage

OSAKA -- An imprisoned motorcycle gang leader filed a 23 million yen damages suit against an Osaka TV station Monday, claiming he was sent to prison for a reckless driving incident that was staged for a program by the broadcaster.
JAPAN
Feb 13, 1998

Homeless at Shinjuku station move out of cardboard village

The end may be near for a row of cardboard dwellings in the underground concourse at Tokyo's JR Shinjuku Station.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 1997

Hong Kong unit wins Tokyo Station plot for 86.8 billion yen

A 4,854-sq. meter plot in front of of JR Tokyo Station's Yaesu exit was auctioned Mar. 6 by JNR Settlement Corp. to a Japanese unit of a Hong Kong-based investment group for 86.8 billion yen.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 20, 2023

Climate change thaws world's northernmost research station

Around the tiny town of Ny-Aalesund, scientific data is getting harder to access, sometimes vanishing before scientists can collect it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2021

Russia just created a cloud of bullets in space

It's important to look at Russia's use of a missile to destroy a satellite in the context of the increasing weaponization of the cosmos.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 5, 2020

Hasegawa Saketen Gransta: A sake lover's boon beneath Tokyo Station

Hasegawa Saketen's reborn Tokyo Station branch is larger, sleeker and even better stocked. It even boasts a new in-house sake microbrewery.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 6, 2020

About 350 U.S. evacuees from virus-hit Chinese city land at California air base

Two planes carrying about 350 Americans out of Wuhan, China, arrived at a U.S. military base in California on Wednesday, in Washington's latest effort to bring its citizens home from the epicenter of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
Freed anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrives in France
U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling environmental activist Paul Watson, who was released from prison in Greenland's capital Nuuk after five months in detention, arrives with Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd France, at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, near Paris, on Friday.
Nippon Steel alleges undue White House influence on doomed deal review
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Dec. 10.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over bills that would 'damage democracy'
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party and opposition party Kuomintang brawl in parliament in Taipei on Friday.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.
A year of Oscar wins and a quiet push for diversity
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” released in Japanese theaters in April, sharply dramatizes the clash between rural and urban values. The film won five awards at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, including the second-place Silver Lion prize.

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