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Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2003

Construction delay causes chaos on JR Chuo Line; 180,000 affected

Service on the JR Chuo Line, one of the key commuter lines in the Tokyo metropolitan area, was disrupted Sunday when an overnight project to switch to new tracks was delayed by eight hours.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 28, 2003

Kawabata's Yomiura City

A short story by Yasunari Kawabata; translated by Burritt Sabin
CULTURE / Music
Sep 28, 2003

Singing in the ageless language of love

Among the rags-to-riches stories that make the annals of popular music such a colorful read, few tales are as dramatic as that of Ibrahim Ferrer, now age 76.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2003

Powerful quakes strike Hokkaido

SAPPORO -- Two powerful earthquakes, one with a preliminary magnitude of 8, struck Hokkaido early Friday, sparking a refinery fire and generating several tsunami.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2003

Advantest sees first-half profit jump

Advantest Corp., one of the world's largest makers of semiconductor testers, said Friday its group net profit for the first half of its business year will probably be more than six-fold above its original forecast.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2003

Shiseido to expand China operations

Shiseido Co. is opening a cosmetic specialty store in Shanghai on Friday and setting up a wholly owned holding company there early next year to expand its Chinese operations.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2003

Brokerages plan April 1 merger

Midsize brokerages SMBC Friend Securities Co. and Izumi Securities Co. said Wednesday they will merge April 1 to streamline operations and bolster customer bases.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Sep 25, 2003

Worth fighting for

Most "greatest hits" games are too familiar. They were great when they came out last Christmas and everybody bought them, but now they're simply old.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Pump firm slapped on wrist for concealing 290 million yen

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has judged that plant engineering firm Ebara Corp. concealed 290 million yen in income over a two-year period ending in March 2002, sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Agriculture bodies spill beans on food output

A growing number of agricultural organizations are revealing the processes behind growing farm produce, much to the delight of health-conscious consumers and to the chagrin of some growers.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2003

Ishihara wants truth on Japan Highway's health

Newly appointed transport minister Nobuteru Ishihara indicated Monday he might sack Japan Highway Public Corp. President Haruho Fujii over the troubled entity's controversial balance sheet.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2003

Camera system tracks fast objects

Toshiba Corp. said Monday it has developed an active camera system that can detect and track fast-moving objects in ambient lighting conditions, such as those in home and office environments.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 23, 2003

Science fiction or science fact and culture

J-culture In response to Simone returning home to France (Lifelines; July 22) more readers have come up with great information on English-language magazines about J-culture.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2003

Mitsubishi Electric expects profit

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Monday that it expects to report a group net profit of 2 billion yen in the fiscal first half.
COMMENTARY
Sep 22, 2003

Can 'Special K' save Japan?

For all the attention given to the rise of China, it is still not the most important nation in Asia. Japan, with the world's No. 2 economy and a growing list of problems, is.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 21, 2003

Russian masters play to bury Leningrad

It's been more than a decade since Russia changed the name of the former Czarist capital back to St. Petersburg, but in Japan, where commercial concerns overrule even historical destiny, it took a long time for the reversion to take hold. For most of the '90s, any orchestra or ballet company from the...
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2003

Kyocera trims earnings forecast

Kyocera Corp. said Friday it has cut its group earnings projections for the fiscal first half amid disappointing sales of mobile phones and personal handy-phone system handsets.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2003

J-Phone set to offer TV function

J-Phone Co. will release a handset that can receive analogue television broadcasts, company officials said Friday. The handset, made by NEC Corp., will be put on the market in December as part of marketing steps J-Phone will take as it changes its name to Vodafone K.K. on Oct. 1.
COMMENTARY
Sep 20, 2003

Economic policies confused

In his campaign for re-election as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, has made much of the current mild economic revival. He sees it as vindicating his economic policies.
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2003

Fujitsu lands 172.5 billion yen deal with British government

Fujitsu Ltd. has received an order from the British government for a large-scale system to provide tax services via the Internet, Fujitsu officials said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2003

Taxi firm lures fares with Hello Kitty tissue

How's this for a relaxing cab ride: slide into the back seat of a pink and baby blue sedan with two Hello Kitty characters painted on the side, sit on a Hello Kitty blanket and listen to Hello Kitty music piped in through the sound system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2003

New Mazda chief sets sights on U.S., China

Mazda Motor Corp. is gearing up to gain ground on rivals, especially in the United States and China, according to President Hisakazu Imaki.
COMMENTARY
Sep 17, 2003

Moscow must walk a fine line as Tokyo and Beijing compete for Russian oil

HONG KONG -- Russia is in the enviable position of being wooed simultaneously by Asia's two main powers, China and Japan. At the same time, it has to walk a fine line because it is unlikely to be able to please both countries.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 14, 2003

Sungoliath kicks off Top League with 54-31 victory

The new Top League may have been established to ensure the next generation of Japanese rugby players can compete on the world stage and Hirotoki Onozawa certainly made his mark with four tries -- but the party that marked the launch of the new league was for a time gate-crashed by some of the veterans...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 14, 2003

Standing up to the loan sharks

On the morning of Aug. 13, a 70-year-old Yokohama man hanged himself in his home -- driven over the edge by debt. In total, he owed 17 million yen to banks, consumer-loan companies and even his children and relatives. In addition, 1,120,000 yen of his debt was to eight yamikinyu (loan sharks).
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 14, 2003

Poetry: a language without borders

KIYOKO'S SKY: The Haiku of Kiyoko Tokutomi, translations by Patricia J. Machmiller & Fay Aoyagi. Illinois: Brookes Books, Decatur, 2002, 128 pp., $16 (paper). SELECTED HAIKU, by Takaha Shugyo, translations by Hoshino Tsunehiko & Adrian Pinnington. Tokyo: Furansudo, 2003, 108 pp., $16 (paper). These two...

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