Search - member

 
Menu
Search
 
November 25, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
33,230 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2003

Transsexuals, sex-change advocates fight on against social, registry snub

Transsexuals and their supporters have teamed up to seek public acknowledgment of those who suffer from gender identity disorder and to pressure the government into allowing sex changes to be recorded in official documents.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Diet leagues serving vested interests

There are 727 lawmakers in the Diet, with 480 in the House of Representatives and 247 in the House of Councilors. Yet the number of Diet groups -- not political parties -- is said to be more than 1,000 and growing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2003

Nakamura to trade Diet seat for jail cell

The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by former Construction Minister Kishiro Nakamura against an 18-month prison term for bribery, a decision that will remove him from his seat in the House of Representatives.
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2002

Foreigners in their midst

The European Union, concerned increasingly about the rising anti-immigrant sentiment among its member states, has agreed to launch a joint program to curb the influx of illegal immigrants from third countries. That is one of the most significant results of the two-day EU summit meeting held late last...
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 29, 2002

Top business lobbies tie knot, hope to better sway politics

The Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) and the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) merged Tuesday to become the Japan Business Federation, hoping the more powerful business lobby can wield greater influence over government policies.
JAPAN
May 19, 2002

Japan rethinks plan for permanent U.N. Security Council seat

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Japan has been forced to review its diplomatic strategy for gaining a long-coveted permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 6, 2002

Nora Marzuki

Of the Asia-Pacific Ladies Friendship Society, Nora Marzuki said, "One of its main objectives is to raise funds for charity, and this is very dear to my heart. . . . In this day and age, when there are so many unfortunate and disastrous events, our efforts in raising funds can go a long way towards alleviating...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2002

U.S. lawmakers see close midterm races

While President George W. Bush continues to enjoy extremely high popular support, the U.S. midterm elections later this year will be hard-fought and could swing the narrow balance of power in Congress, according to a group of U.S. lawmakers who gathered at a March 26 symposium in Tokyo.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Dec 23, 2001

Buffalo Daughter: A new addition to the family

Being in a band is like being married to more than one person simultaneously. And like any married couple, bands have their own special neuroses. The dysfunctions of any given group are compounded by long hours in the hothouse confines of a studio and even longer hours on the road.
JAPAN
May 29, 2001

Opponents pleased with anti-MOX vote

Villagers in Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture, opposed to introducing plutonium mixed oxide fuel in a local nuclear reactor expressed their happiness Monday after a majority of voters turned thumbs down on the plan in a plebiscite the day before.
JAPAN
May 1, 2001

Cabinet paving way to female prime minister?

The new Cabinet breaks with tradition in several ways -- it has a record number of women, including the first female foreign minister, and a woman is third in line to take over the prime minister's job in an emergency.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2001

Shigenobu pleads not guilty to terrorism

Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, including charges of injuring local police officers.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2001

Opposition demands KSD probe

The Democratic Party of Japan and three other opposition parties on Wednesday asked the House of Representatives to facilitate an investigation of bribery allegations involving the Budget Committee and scandal-hit mutual aid foundation KSD and to summon three lawmakers to give sworn testimony.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2000

Aum ranks' rights compromised by fear

NAGAREYAMA, Chiba Pref. -- As night falls, all the houses in this quiet bedroom community melt into darkness.
COMMENTARY
Nov 26, 2000

EU treaty anything but nice

LONDON -- A new treaty is being born in Europe, and it looks as though the birth will be a difficult one.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2000

Nakagawa resigns; Fukuda steps in

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa resigned Friday over scandals involving rightist connections and an extramarital affair, dealing a fresh political blow to embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's administration.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2000

HIV victim's mom rocks voters' boat

The outspoken mother of an HIV-infected man who became a symbol of citizens' fight for justice during the 1995-96 tainted blood scandal, is challenging established political parties in the Oct. 22 House of Representatives by-election in Tokyo's western suburbs.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Mori plans more letters pitching UNSC seat bid

In yet another effort to promote Japan's quest for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will write most of the U.N. member nations as early as next week to reiterate calls for UNSC reforms, government sources said.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2000

20% in Diet received pensions in 1999

One in five Diet members received pensions from their earlier jobs, on top of their 24.03 million yen basic salary as legislators, according to the report on lawmakers' 1999 income released Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2000

Policy forum links politicians, public

OSAKA — Candidates who intend to run from the Osaka No. 9 constituency in the June 25 general election spoke before 280 people at a "kokai toron kai" policy forum held recently in Ibaraki Ward.
BUSINESS
May 19, 2000

Nikkeiren, Keidanren join drive for greater efficiency

The call for organizational reform that is leading many Japanese companies and even government agencies to struggle to streamline operations is finally reaching the nation's business groups.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2000

Diet holdout Tomobe gets 10-year sentence for fraud

Independent Upper House member Tatsuo Tomobe was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for swindling 35 people out of about 665 million yen between 1994 and 1996 in a scam involving his Orange Kyosai bogus mutual aid scheme.
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2000

Long road back from mind control

Akira Sawaki was just another high school student when he joined Aum Shinrikyo in the winter of 1991, believing the world was full of corruption and wanting to be the one to change it.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2000

BOJ says low prices aren't 'bad'

The Bank of Japan's Policy Board agreed that consumer price declines resulting from structural changes in Japan's distribution system are "not a bad thing" and should be distinguished from deflationary drops, according to the minutes of their Feb. 10 meeting released Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2000

Shop plaza taps 'platinum' generation for jobs, revival

NAGAHAMA, Shiga Pref. -- Although Tamae Shibata has many hobbies to pick from to bide her time, they offer the 71-year-old little satisfaction.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 1999

Global sports body promotes 'sacred unity'

Staff writer
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
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.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’
Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER