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BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2004

Citizen, Seiko roll out thin radio-controlled watches

Watchmakers are turning to radio-controlled watches to beat out their Chinese and European counterparts, who tend to dominate the lower and higher ends of the market.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 6, 2004

Nishino's pair helps Jubilo get past Gamba

J. League leader Jubilo Iwata picked up the first three points of its Nabisco Cup campaign with a 3-2 win away to Gamba Osaka in their Group B clash on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 6, 2004

FIBA names host cities for 2006 worlds

The International Basketball Federation on Saturday announced five venues for the FIBA World Championship in Japan in 2006. Sapporo, Sendai, Hamamatsu and Hiroshima will host the group games while Saitama, north of Tokyo, will host final round games at Saitama Super Arena. A total of 24 nations will...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 6, 2004

Move your butt and your mind will follow

Nic Offer and John Pugh, the vocalist and drummer of the New York dance-punk band who go by the moniker !!!, are on a mission to liberate butts everywhere, but right now they're hungry. It's a sunny spring day and they're sitting in an Ebisu bar and promoting their debut album, "Louden Up Now."
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 6, 2004

Village Vignettes: Insiders seen from the outside

VILLAGE VIGNETTES, by Michael Smithies, illustrations by Uthai-Traisiwakul. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2004, 168 pp, $17.99 (paper). Michael Smithies, the well-known scholar and eminent historian of 17th-century Siam, lives in northeast Thailand, near the village that he describes in these sketches of its...
COMMENTARY
Jun 6, 2004

Slow down the warehousing of the old

LOS ANGELES -- In Asia, though not everywhere in the region, older people tend to be regarded differently from their counterparts in America. In many places, they're not even spurned. In some, they are even revered. Imagine.
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 5, 2004

Surgery for Inamoto

Kyodo News Japan international Junichi Inamoto, who suffered a broken ankle in the national team's 1-1 draw away to England in midweek, will undergo surgery in the next few days, the Japan Football Association said Friday.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 5, 2004

Parra defends WBA title by outpointing Sakata

WBA flyweight champion Lorenzo Parra won a 2-0 decision against Japan's Takefumi Sakata in a bloody confrontation and Chris John completed a miserable night for Japan when he won on a unanimous decision over Osamu Sato in the WBA featherweight title bout in a double header at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 5, 2004

Glitzy city jars journeyer to 'real' Japan

"We are having a gale all night and a beauty too. The waves are lashing about us at a desperate rate, even against my window at times away up on the upper deck, but they can't drive us off our course. I go to bed at night, I fully expect to find myself on the floor in the morning. Please have a cradle...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 5, 2004

Don't count out blue-collar Detroit

LOS ANGELES -- To be perfectly prickly, nobody outside this city's limits, exempting Yankee fans, perhaps, likes the Lakers. How can we when the Lakers don't like themselves?
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2004

True Fantasy ends

U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. has scrapped development of Xbox game "True Fantasy Live Online," which had been slated for release in Japan during the winter, its Japan unit officials said Friday.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 4, 2004

Host cities named for basketball worlds

Sapporo and Sendai were among four cities that were named on Thursday to host preliminary-round matches at the 2006 Men's World Basketball Championship in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 2004

Copyright ethics for the digital age

As a result of rapid advances in the digitization and networking of information, the environment surrounding copyrights is undergoing dramatic change. Unfortunately, understanding of copyrights in Japan is far from adequate. Culture won't be nurtured unless the ethics exist in which the beneficiaries...
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 3, 2004

Shall we meet at Sutaba, Tsutaya or the dog's tail?

Doing the machiawase (setting up a meeting place) is one of things that define Japanese relationships, especially relationships in Tokyo.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jun 3, 2004

Our woodland's magic is a joy to behold

A very kind Japanese man who has served for more than 30 years in children's homes told me recently that 70 percent of the youngsters in his care nowadays have been abused or seriously neglected by their parents. Early in his career, he said, such abuse was very rare indeed. And, he assured me sadly,...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2004

Foreigners dominate used-vehicle export trade in Japan

KOSHIGAYA, Saitama Pref. -- There is a bleep, pictures of cars pop up on two big screens, and meters show prices rising.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 2, 2004

Just a tinkle on the keys to heaven

Tengoku no Honya - koibi Rating: * * 1/2 (out of 5) Director: Tetsuo Shinohara Running time: 111 minutes Language: Japanese Opens June 5 [See Japan Times movie listings] Ever since "Ghost" -- that 1990 Jerry Zucker weeper better known now as the sexiest ceramics-instructional film ever...
EDITORIALS
Jun 2, 2004

Striking a balance in Geneva

The World Trade Organization opens three days of farm trade talks in Geneva on Wednesday. Japan, which maintains high tariffs on rice and other sensitive products, is likely to find itself on the defensive, as it did in previous talks. But maintaining a rigid policy of protection is not a sensible option....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 2, 2004

He spins a top tale

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu made quite a splash with his 2000 debut, "Amores Perros," which put Mexican cinema back on the map. With his followup, "21 Grams," the former radio DJ and commercial director proves that was no fluke, fashioning a film that's every bit as intense and structurally innovative...
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2004

China increasingly viewed as market

Manufacturers are considering boosting business in China, viewing the world's most populous country more as a market and not just as a production base, according to a government report released Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2004

China threatens Hong Kong's freedoms

When China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 after 150 years of British rule, the "one country, two systems" formula for this special administrative region of China promised that Beijing would leave Hong Kong's free-wheeling capitalist way of life untouched for at least 50 years.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2004

Nissan planning Yokohama move

Nissan Motor Co. is considering moving most of its head office operations from Tokyo to Yokohama, where it was founded 71 years ago, sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2004

H.I.S. to expand overseas operations, help foreign travelers

The new president of H.I.S. Co. said Tuesday he will work hard to increase the travel agency's global presence by expanding its overseas operations.
EDITORIALS
Jun 1, 2004

An 'environmental revolution'

A revolution means a radical change. That's exactly what the government's latest environment report calls for. It stresses the importance of building a new socio-economic society through environmental conservation -- a society in which "environment-friendly" technologies are broadly blended with the...
OLYMPICS
Jun 1, 2004

Japan manager Tanaka quits

National volleyball team manager Mikiyasu Tanaka has decided to step down from the helm after he failed to help the men's team win a berth for the Athens Olympics through the recent qualifier, volleyball sources said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2004

Two regional economies upgraded

The government said Monday it has revised upward its economic assessment for two of 11 regions nationwide due to a pickup in personal spending and improvement in employment conditions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2004

Corporations racked up record profits in fiscal '03

Corporations posted record profits in fiscal 2003, thanks to streamlining efforts and strong core-business performance.
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2004

Gandhi grew stronger by stepping back

Sonia Gandhi surprised herself, her party, the country and the world by leading the Congress alliance to victory in India's 14th general election. Having shattered the hubris and complacency of the Bharatiya Janata Party government and punctured the pride of the political pundits, she then stunned everyone...
Osaka Expo-linked spending expected to hit ¥1 trillion
The Osaka Expo site on Yumeshima island in December.
The North Korea taekwondo supremo that Austria can't kick
The entrance sign of the headquarters of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is pictured, on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, on March 5, 2025. While the sports organization has faced accusations of working for Pyongyang, ITF has denied "any wrongdoing," insisting the federation promotes taekwondo worldwide.
Amid labor shortage, Japan approves guidelines to upskill foreign workers
A Vietnamese worker harvests tomatoes at a farm in the city of Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, in 2018.
Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida to step down
Makoto Uchida, CEO of Nissan, will step down from the post at the end of this month.
Man arrested after fatal stabbing of woman in Shinjuku Ward
Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police examine the scene where a woman in her 20s was stabbed on Tuesday morning in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
‘We are not Ukraine’: Top Taiwan officials temper comparisons after U.S. U-turn
People hold a Ukrainian flag and a Taiwan flag during a protest to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Taipei on Feb. 23.
14 years after 3/11 disasters, Fukushima vies to become a startup hub
Aizawa Concrete employees work in the Namie factory in Fukushima Prefecture in January.
Tokyo’s vinyl experts say overseas buyers are ‘sustaining the scene’
Rintaro Sekizuka runs a record store in both London and Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
Slowly but surely, Osaka emerges from Kyoto’s fine-dining shadow
Bar Bota, the 37th-floor watering hole at the Four Seasons Osaka, looks out on a glittering cityscape better known for its cheap eats and drinks.
Cherry blossom season set to kick off on March 21 in Tokyo
A Weathernews forecast shows the cherry blossom season will begin on March 21 in Tokyo.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly
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