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BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Oct 17, 2005

Murakami, baseball and the pitfalls of Japanese managers

Financier Yoshiaki Murakami's bid to influence the Hanshin Tigers after recently becoming their parent firm's top shareholder has drawn public attention not only to his acquisitions, but also to the way that Japan's professional baseball teams are being run.
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2005

Koizumi urges greenhouse action

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Saturday urged major greenhouse gas-emitting countries that are not members of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change to take action to save the world from the threats of global warming.
COMMENTARY
Oct 16, 2005

China needs an independent judiciary

HONG KONG -- China has performed a miracle over the last quarter century, lifting hundreds of millions of people from dire poverty and turning the country into an economic powerhouse. In the process, Beijing has raised people's expectations not only of a better life but of a fairer society.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 16, 2005

Havin' a talk with 'God' and his Oval Office cronies

U.S. President George W. Bush has apparently declared, in a program to be aired next week on the BBC, that God instructed him to "fight the terrorists" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 16, 2005

UNEAR THING FACT IN CLASSIC FICTION

'Robinson Crusoe" has fascinated explorer Daisuke Takahashi ever since his elementary school days, when he first read the classic adventure tale about a British sailor who lived on a desert island for 28 years. Imagining that he, too, was marooned on an isolated island, the young Takahashi would roast...
SOCCER / World cup
Oct 15, 2005

Japan to face U.S.

Japan will play a friendly match against the United States in San Francisco in February next year ahead of the Germany 2006 World Cup, soccer sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Postal bills become law

The hotly contested postal-privatization bills that have been at the center of a political firestorm this year were finally approved Friday, passing through a House of Councilors plenary session with relative ease.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 15, 2005

Man Zhuang

This year Man Zhuang is exhibiting for a second time in the print show sponsored by the College Women's Association of Japan. This young woman is Chinese, an art student from Shanghai. She is also a dentist.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

TBS set to fight Rakuten's bid

Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. may take countermeasures against online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc., which has suddenly emerged as the TV station's biggest shareholder and takeover threat, market sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Tsunami survivor returns to help Sri Lanka

and TECH Japan members Suvendrini Kakuchi and Akiko Ozaki show off an apron made at a sewing center for tsunami and civil war survivors here in northern Sri Lanka.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Oct 14, 2005

Trendy Naka-Meguro is on the Bals

It used to be that Japanese consumers tended not to spend a great deal on their homes. Over the last decade or so, however, that has changed, and firms like Bals Corporation have proved extremely successful at selling the notion of home improvement to Japan.
COMMENTARY
Oct 14, 2005

Missile defense will define Japan-U.S. security alliance

The impasse about the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps air station at Futenma in Okinawa caused U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to cancel his forthcoming visit to Japan. So Rumsfeld, fed up with Japanese foot-dragging for more than a decade, will be going to China and South Korea, but not to...
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Aomori formally OKs ITER research center in Rokkasho

Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura said Wednesday his prefecture will accept a request from the central government to host a research center related to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor to be built in France.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2005

Eight Japanese-Filipinos file for citizenship in Tokyo

Eight Japanese-Filipinos born in the Philippines prior to the end of World War II applied Wednesday with the Tokyo Family Court to be registered as Japanese citizens.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 12, 2005

Thai champ stops Naito

Japanese boxer Daisuke Naito lasted longer this time against Thai champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam but his renewed bid for a world title ended in the seventh round Monday in a rematch of their WBC flyweight fight.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 12, 2005

Looking at both sides of the equation

Someone asked me the other day if I wouldn't like to be a woman, just to see what it was like. Sure, I'd love to try it, I said, for a day or two. Imagine seeing the world from the other side, seeing how men assess you and wielding power over them with a glance. Or if you're a woman, imagine being a...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 10, 2005

Moodie clinches AIG Open tourney

South Africa's Wesley Moodie recovered from an unsteady start Sunday to claim the AIG Japan Open men's singles title with a 1-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 win over No. 5 seed Mario Ancic of Croatia.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2005

Shock over aid worker's death

Relatives of a Japanese aid worker and his son killed in Saturday's massive earthquake in Pakistan have departed their home in Fukuoka to identify the bodies as people close to them expressed shock and disbelief.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 9, 2005

Golovin, Vaidisova storm into Japan Open final

Third-seed Tatiana Golovin of France overpowered India's Sania Mirza on Saturday to set up a meeting with Czech Nicole Vaidisova in the final of the AIG Japan Open women's singles.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2005

Nine numbers and 81 squares

Human beings are a famously diverse lot. We come in different colors and sizes, speak a Babel of tongues, worship a pantheon of gods or no god at all, eat our foods bland or spicy, vote or not, and are sorely divided over the value of poetry. But those distinctions pale compared to the big one: the gulf...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 9, 2005

Why has militant extremism become such a strong force for radical Islam?

JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH: Radical Islam in Indonesia, by Greg Barton. Ridge Books: Singapore, 2005, 118 pp., $15 (paper). Eerily the news of the recent Bali bombings broke as I was reading this concise analysis of why radical Islam remains a potent threat in Indonesia and the region. It is believed that there...
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2005

EU opens its doors to Turkey

After taking negotiations to the brink, the European Union this week agreed -- as promised -- to open talks with Turkey on its membership in the union. The last-minute decision is typical of EU behavior these days, but Ankara's accession raises fundamental questions about the EU. This week's agreement...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2005

Traffic won't stop for inclusive Tokyo marathon

Some 2,000 runners will pound the pavement Monday in Tokyo in Japan's only urban marathon open to both fast and slow alike.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2005

LDP rookies debut in postal deliberations

Three new faces in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who were elected in the Sept. 11 general election as proponents of postal privatization made their debut in the Diet Friday during deliberations on the issue.

Longform

Wealthier women in the prewar era had been the targets of various media-related health campaigns that mistakenly encouraged them to avoid everything from riding bicycles to reading novels when their monthly cycles came around.
Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly