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BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2002

DSL subscribers crack 3 million mark

The number of subscribers to DSL high-speed Internet access services has surpassed 3 million for the first time, the telecommunications ministry said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2002

Japan to donate $5 million to ecosystem fund

Japan announced Thursday its intention to contribute $5 million this year to the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, an international fund to help protect environmentally sensitive areas around the globe.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2002

Shinsei to drop Visa in favor of Amex

Shinsei Bank said Thursday that American Express International Inc. will take over from Visa International as its partner in credit card operations.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jun 7, 2002

Market likely to struggle for some time

The Tokyo stock market opened the month moderately higher Monday, but the rally soon fizzled, dashing hopes that the Nikkei average would soon hit 12,000.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 7, 2002

Samurais hoping to play Kiwis

The Japan Rugby League announced on Wednesday that it was hoping to stage a test match between the Japanese Samurais and New Zealand in Tokyo in October.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jun 6, 2002

Don't go making a monkey of yourself, man

Monkey, primate, ape; the terms slip so easily off the tongue, but just what do they mean, and how do they differ? And what does it mean to talk of New World and Old World monkeys?
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 5, 2002

South Korea ends frustration

PUSAN, South Korea Before kickoff South Korea's fanatical fans were dancing in droves around the impressive Asiad Main Stadium. By the time the final whistle went, they were celebrating in streets the length and breadth of the country.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2002

Politicians turn to fundraising parties

In one night, you may be able to earn as much as 100 million yen.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2002

Shigenobu daughter pushes peace

OSAKA — While international calls are growing for another round of peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, May Shigenobu, daughter of the Japanese Red Army guerrilla group's founder, said little progress will be made unless Palestinian grievances are recognized.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2002

TSE, NYSE to share info

The Tokyo Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that they have agreed to share information on market transactions to ensure fairness and transparency in both markets.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2002

Snow Brand appoints consumer guru to board

OSAKA -- Snow Brand Milk Products Co. on Tuesday said it has appointed Nobuko Hiwasa, former chief of a leading consumer group, as an outside director in charge of food safety.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2002

Former Ishioka mayor admits taking 2 million yen to leak waterworks bid

A former mayor of Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, pleaded guilty Monday to receiving 2 million yen in bribes in 1999 for unlawfully helping Hitachi Ltd. win the contract for a municipal waterworks project.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2002

Casualty insurance giants plot three-way alliance

The largest casualty insurers in Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to form a business tieup on product development and market research, company sources said Monday.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jun 3, 2002

Balance of payments and intervention signal danger for economic reforms

Japan's international balance of payments for fiscal 2001, released by the Finance Ministry on May 15, highlighted a year-on-year fall in the trade and current account surpluses. But it also revealed a 24.4 percent increase in the nation's income surplus to a record-high 8.68 trillion yen.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Jun 2, 2002

Snobbery will not be permitted

Once upon a time, wine in Japan was a hushed affair, conducted with starched linens and stiff-backed chairs. Elusive first-growth Bordeaux and top Burgundy accompanied the tense, dutiful rituals of business negotiations. The mood was earnest; the cost high. It sometimes seemed as if the highly codified...
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2002

Duskin to shelve openings of new Mister Donut shops

OSAKA — Duskin Co. has pledged to refrain from opening new Mister Donut shops until March following public outcry over the company's handling of a banned antioxidant found in its meat dumplings.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2002

Chinese growth miracle may be a myth

NEW DELHI -- Has China really achieved double-digit growth rates in the past two decades? And is India really lagging behind? Close scrutiny reveals that India's growth rate may actually have been higher.
COMMUNITY / CLOSE-UP
Jun 2, 2002

Straight talking from Citizen Nic

Writer and naturalist C.W. Nicol left his home in South Wales in 1958 at the age of 17 to join an Arctic Institute of North America expedition to the Arctic. Four years later, he made his first visit to Japan to study karate and Japanese, before heading back to Canada to take part in a further six Arctic...
COMMUNITY
Jun 2, 2002

See you at Almond

Earlier this year, the Dentsu Research Institute predicted that Japan's co-hosting of the World Cup would benefit the economy to the tune of 3.182 trillion yen. While Tokyo isn't hosting any of the games, its glitzy Roppongi district will likely play host to thousands of soccer fans from around the world...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 2, 2002

New threats to East Asian security

EAST ASIA IMPERILLED: Transnational Challenges to Security, by Alan Dupont. Cambridge University Press, 2001, 336 pp., $25 (paper) The way we think about national security is changing. Traditionally, the idea of protecting a nation focused on military contests over power, wealth or territory. Not surprisingly,...
COMMENTARY
Jun 1, 2002

Beijing must walk a fine line on asylum

HONG KONG -- China's decision to allow five North Koreans who sought asylum in the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang to go to Seoul via Manila reflects the delicate balancing act Beijing must perform in managing its relationship with North Korea, its longtime communist ally, and South Korea, its...
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2002

Tokyo CPI falls 32nd straight month

Key consumer prices in Tokyo fell 1.1 percent in May from a year earlier for a record 32nd straight month of decline, the government said Friday in a preliminary report.
BUSINESS
May 31, 2002

Aid-policy coordination to help fight terror

Japan and the United States will expand cooperation in the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism to include closer aid-policy coordination for Afghanistan and other strategically important countries, government sources said Thursday.
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
May 31, 2002

Encouraging kids to think for themselves

"Is it really OK for school to be this much fun?"
JAPAN
May 30, 2002

Morgan Stanley fund accused of tax evasion

A real-estate investment fund operated by the Morgan Stanley group of the U.S. allegedly failed to report 18 billion yen in Japanese income from the buying and selling of bad loans in 1999 and 2000, sources said Wednesday.
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?
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