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BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2005

Female tips solicited to simplify appliances

Electrical equipment manufacturers, including Sony Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., are exploiting the female perspective on the design of household electrical appliances by appointing women to relevant workshops.
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2005

Emigrants await ruling in breach of promise suit

Some 1,300 Japanese citizens left for "a promised land" in the Caribbean almost 50 years ago, encouraged by a government-sponsored emigration program.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2005

Emigrants await ruling in breach of promise suit

Some 1,300 Japanese citizens left for "a promised land" in the Caribbean almost 50 years ago, encouraged by a government-sponsored emigration program.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 20, 2005

The Bard on the hanamichi

With his characters given samurai names and clad in kimono, whatever would the Bard make of this "Twelfth Night" by Japan's foremost Shakespeare dramatist, 69-year-old Yukio Ninagawa? This veteran theatrical explorer long vowed never to tackle kabuki, but is doing just that with "Twelfth Night" to packed...
BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2005

Retired athletes learn to survive life after sport

While all workers in Japan feel pressure to perform at the top of their game, that's probably more true for professional athletes than anyone else.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 17, 2005

Is it a crime to want realism?

DRAGON'S EYE, by Andy Oakes. Overlook TP, 2005, 460 pp., $14.95 (paper). Eight horribly mutilated bodies are found chained together in Shanghai's Huangpu River. Four of the corpses, the autopsies reveal, turn out to be recently executed criminals; two others are European males; one appears to be an overseas...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 17, 2005

All hail the Land of the Free -- or else!

The United States of America is all akilter.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Honohana foot-cult guru gets 12 years for fraud

The founder of the now-defunct Honohana Sampogyo foot-reading cult was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for bilking his flock out of 150 million yen in the name of religious training.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Store lobby targets costs of recycling

The Japan Chain Stores Association asked the government Friday to revise the present system for recycling food containers and packages to address what it claims is an unfair burden placed on large retailers in the form of recycling costs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Japan's sexual slavery focus of museum

In a bid to keep wartime sexual violence against women in people's minds, female activists in Japan are set to open a museum in Tokyo to collect and display materials mainly about those who were forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army during the war.
EDITORIALS
Jul 15, 2005

Preventive care for the elderly

A revision in the nursing-care insurance law, which passed the Diet in late June, will go into effect in April 2006, representing a significant turn in the direction of the government's approach since the insurance system was introduced in fiscal 2000.
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2005

Shiseido, Kose, Kao eye Kanebo

Shiseido Co., Kose Corp. and Kao Corp. have joined the bidding process to sponsor the rehabilitation of Kanebo Ltd. and Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. along with U.S. consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co., cosmetic house L'Oreal SA of France and U.S. investment fund RHJ International SA, sources said Thursday....
MORE SPORTS
Jul 13, 2005

Marines' Valentine firmly against MLB's new international event

Bobby Valentine is not the kind of guy to hold back his feelings. He never has been.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2005

Chinese beer makers face scrutiny over ingredients

The health ministry has asked importers of Chinese beers to find out from the breweries whether the drinks contain formaldehyde, a banned hazardous substance, according to ministry sources.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2005

Asbestos-linked deaths hit 397 at 33 firms

The death toll from diseases linked to asbestos inhalation has risen by 19 to at least 397 at 33 companies that handled the fibrous mineral, which is used in building materials but is known to cause cancer and other diseases after years of incubation.
SOCCER / J. League
Jul 12, 2005

Emerson quits Reds

J. League first-division side Urawa Reds said Monday that Brazilian striker Emerson has joined Qatar's Al-Saad after refusing to return to the team.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 12, 2005

A fight to the death

Her bony, 80-year-old body floating around inside a nylon shirt and cigarette permanently clamped between what appear to be her two remaining front teeth, Kan Kyon Nam is an unlikely illegal squatter.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 10, 2005

Coming out of the linguistic closet

QUEER JAPAN FROM THE PACIFIC WAR TO THE INTERNET AGE, by Mark McLelland. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 248 pp., 15 b/w photos, $34.95 (paper). Japanese homosexuals face a peculiar problem. There is a true confusion among terms for sex, gender, sexual orientation, and gender expression. As one scholar...
Japan Times
Features
Jul 10, 2005

DEPRESSION

'Istarted to get to work late -- sometimes at 11, then at 12 and then at 2; and then I had to quit my job."
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2005

Trial opens over denial of secret accord with U.S.

A court battle opened Tuesday on a damages suit filed by a former Mainichi Shimbun reporter who claims his career was ruined after he was wrongly convicted for reporting on an alleged secret pact between Japan and the United States over the 1972 reversion of Okinawa.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2005

M&As involving Japan firms hit record levels in first half

Mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies reached an all-time high in the six months through June, according to data from financial research firms, suggesting that companies are gearing up to withstand the rigors of international competition.
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Jul 5, 2005

Makers read the leaves: green tea is where it's at

A rowdy tea party is brewing in the soft drink industry as companies crank up already-intense competition in the rapidly growing market for bottled green tea.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jul 4, 2005

Ministries should seek corporate input when revamping statistics

There have been complaints that the economic statistics compiled by the government no longer reflect the developments of the times or the changing structure of the Japanese economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2005

Security and human health

Human security remains a contested concept among scholars. Yet it is attractive to policymakers because it provides a template for practical action. On public health, for example, human security implies policies for correcting state shortcomings in protecting people against the most commonly prevalent...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 3, 2005

Many ways to view a temple

MUROJI: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple, by Sherry D. Fowles. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 296 pp.; 13 color plates and many b/w illustrations, drawings, maps; $50.00 (cloth). Muroji, one of Japan's most beautiful temples, was founded near Nara in the late 8th...

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