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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 10, 2003

Cursive

In the summer of 2002, Eastern Youth, the most conscientious punk band in Japan, released "Eight Teeth to Eat You," a split CD with the Omaha emo-core band Cursive. Then they announced they would bring the group to Japan for a short joint tour. Unfortunately, Cursive frontman Tim Kasher suffered a collapsed...
BUSINESS
Sep 10, 2003

Sompo Japan expands South Korean tieup

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to expand its tieup with two South Korean nonlife insurers to cover other Asian countries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Sep 7, 2003

Boiled alive . . . all for rock 'n' roll

It's hitting 40 degrees in the concrete badlands of Odaiba and the asphalt beneath our feet is attaining the viscosity of quicksand. We wanna run for cover, but this stuff sucks at your sneakers and makes the beer tent slower to get to. The only sea breeze today is the cocktail mixed by the bartender,...
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BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2003

Nippon Steel production clouded

Nippon Steel Corp. said Friday it is not sure when it can resume full production at its Nagoya plant, which closed after a gas tank explosion earlier this week.
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BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2003

IRCJ to try to turn around at least 100 firms, chief says

The Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan will try to help rehabilitate at least 100 financially troubled companies during its planned five years in operation, the IRCJ chief said Thursday in an interview with Kyodo News.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2003

Workers happy to serve as jurors as long as trials are short

Some 72 percent of respondents in a recent survey said they would be willing to act as jurors if a quasi-jury system being contemplated by the government is introduced -- as long as the trial did not run longer than three days.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 4, 2003

Arias' hot bat puts Tigers seven games away from pennant

The Hanshin Tigers overcame a 2-1 deficit and an injury to starter Kei Igawa to win their seventh game in a row by defeating the Hiroshima Carp 5-4 on Wednesday at Hiroshima Stadium.
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2003

China e-government venture eyed

Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday it will set up a joint venture with the Beijing University of Technology to push ahead with joint business efforts tied to China's e-government initiatives.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 3, 2003

Abdul Tee-Jay and Palm Wine A-Go-Go

Sierra Leone might be most closely associated with blood diamonds and gruesome images of civil war, but it is also the home of palm wine music, a happy, bubbling style of guitar picking. Palm wine music, or maringa, as it's known inside the country, combines calypso with local melodies and rhythms and...
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BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2003

Mood subdued as BS digital TV hits milestone

Broadcast-satellite digital television programs went on the air three years ago in Japan amid great fanfare and expectations they would quickly bring higher quality pictures and sound to a large number of households.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 3, 2003

The Plan finally disbands, but the dialogue continues

Last January, The Dismemberment Plan announced that after 10 years, four well-received albums and countless tours that earned them a reputation for being one of the most consistently exciting live acts on the planet they were calling it quits.
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 2, 2003

How are foreigners faring in financially lean times?

Victoria Bauzyte Model, 20 I work at two shows per day and get 70,000 yen for those two. It's not the most you can get, but it's nice for starters, especially since I got it after just one week of casting.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2003

NTT group to become IIJ's top shareholder

Internet Initiative Japan Inc., a major Internet service provider, said Thursday it will float and sell some 12 billion yen in shares to a group of companies including NTT Corp.
COMMENTARY
Aug 28, 2003

Asia needs export controls to keep terrorist forces at bay

SINGAPORE -- The recent bomb blast at the J.W. Marriott hotel in downtown Jakarta is only the most recent reminder of the ruthless cruelty of international terrorism. The topic dominates every discussion of Asian security. Those talks have become increasingly sharp in the face of a rising death toll...
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2003

Mitsui unit to become part of IRCJ

Mitsui Mining Co. will be granted debt waivers of 170 billion yen and will become a unit of the governmental Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2003

Yahoo Japan to conduct stock split

Yahoo Japan Corp. said Tuesday it will conduct a two-for-one stock split Nov. 20 for stockholders of record as of Sept. 30.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2003

Strong overseas demand lifts carmakers' global output

Major Japanese carmakers, except Mitsubishi Motors Corp., boosted global production in July, thanks to strong overseas demand, according to company reports released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2003

Elpida Memory to create semiconductor subsidiary

Elpida Memory Inc., the sole domestic supplier of dynamic random access memory chips, said Tuesday it will establish a wholly owned semiconductor manufacturing subsidiary Sept. 1.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 27, 2003

Face to face with history's Greatest

Histor is wont to bestow epithets on its more colorful characters, from the vertically challenged King Pepin the Short (714?-768), father of Charlemagne, to Ethelred the Unready, who ruled England with singular incompetence from 978 to 1016. Few, however, have so richly deserved their title as Alexander...
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BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2003

Meiji Life, Yasuda to hire 10,000 before merger

Meiji Life Insurance Co. and Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co. will hire 10,000 sales representatives by the end of this year to bring their combined marketing force to 45,000 before they merge in January, Meiji Life Insurance President Ryotaro Kaneko said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2003

Sankyo sues drug firms over copycat packaging

Sankyo Co. filed a lawsuit Monday against five pharmaceutical companies, demanding they halt sales of generic drugs whose packaging is similar to that of its cholesterol-lowering drug.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2003

TSE planning online voting system

The Tokyo Stock Exchange will create an online system that will allow domestic and overseas investors to exercise their voting rights in Japanese companies, exchange officials said Monday.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Aug 26, 2003

Publishing, futons and more motors

Budding author Z. has written a book he thinks is ready for publication. "Can you give me guidance or advice as to how to go about getting published?"
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 26, 2003

Life imitates art for gaijin charmers

We had a fantastic response to our "Charisma Man" competition in last week's Community Page.

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