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BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2006

Grocers, retailers suffer fall in sales

Sales at supermarkets fell 2.5 percent in January from the year before on a same-store basis while department store sales dipped 0.4 percent, industry groups said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 25, 2006

David Hewett

In 1990, then Tokyo resident Va Maughn served as special project director of Refugees International Japan's first Art of Dining Charity Exhibition here. It was her idea to feature personal table settings as "art on tabletops."
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2006

Confidential MSDF info leaked on Internet via Winny

Confidential information from the Maritime Self-Defense Force has been leaked on the Internet via the peer-to-peer file-sharing program Winny, the MSDF said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2006

OhmyNews to hit Japan through Softbank tieup

Softbank Corp. has announced it will contribute 693 million yen to form a joint venture with South Korea's OhmyNews Co. in Tokyo in March to publish a Japanese edition of the online news service.
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2006

What is Livedoor's future on TSE?

With the Wednesday arrest of Livedoor Representative Director Fumito Kumagai and fresh warrants served on founder Takafumi Horie and three former executives for alleged accounting fraud, Livedoor's delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange may be inevitable. Below are answers to some questions about what...
CULTURE / Music
Feb 24, 2006

Independence-D

Everyone has to start somewhere. That's the concept behind Independence-D, a three-day festival with the noble-sounding aim of bringing together the very finest bands from the very best independent labels to give us lucky people a glimpse of the future. Under the ambitious slogan, "From the world to...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Feb 24, 2006

Psychedelic radar 02.24

Saturday, Feb. 25
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 24, 2006

You can't get too much snow up here

Glaciers are in retreat, global weather patterns are going haywire and the Earth's climate is the warmest it's been in a millennium. Nonetheless, every winter, as regular as clockwork, winds from Siberia howl across the Sea of Japan, siphon up moisture, and dump it on Hokkaido as some of the world's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 24, 2006

McGowan speeds into town

Canadian-born Michael McGowan is a filmmaker and writer, but long before that, he had been a runner.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2006

'Takeshima Day,' rhetoric just Shimane affair

MATSUE, Shimane Pref. -- Shimane Prefecture on Wednesday celebrated its first "Takeshima Day" by declaring that the tiny islets controlled by South Korea are part of Japan and calling on the government to pressure Seoul to hand them over.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2006

Prison system hit with data leak

Personal information on about 3,400 convicts or detainees and some 2,300 prison employees was leaked onto the Internet after a prison officer's computer was infected by a virus, Justice Ministry officials said Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Feb 23, 2006

Sweden-Slovakia game monitored

TURIN, Italy (AP) International hockey's governing board closely monitored Sweden's 3-0 loss to Slovakia in Olympic preliminary play Tuesday after Swedish coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson suggested his team might be better off losing. The loss meant Sweden will play Switzerland instead of Canada or the Czech...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Feb 22, 2006

S. Korean wetland faces doom

For those readers long ago numbed to the fraud, waste and environmental abuse that accompanies public works projects in Japan, here's one that might jump-start your ire: A project by the South Korean government to landfill and develop 40,100 hectares (almost 100,000 acres) of coastal waters and wetlands...
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Devotion to job a recipe for retiree divorce

Many middle-aged couples are filing for divorce upon arriving back in Japan after traveling overseas to celebrate the husband's retirement.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

Takebe may file slander suit over e-mail allegation

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe refused Monday to rule out the possibility of suing Hisayasu Nagata, a lawmaker from the Democratic Party of Japan, over his allegation that Takebe's second son had shady financial connections with jailed Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2006

47% of nursing homes fail fire code

Nearly half of all nursing homes for senile elderly people do not have proper fire protection measures, according to a government report released Monday.
COMMENTARY
Feb 20, 2006

New demands, more delays

Japan and North Korea made little progress toward solving their problems in five days of bilateral talks that ended early this month in Beijing. The only agreement was to continue to talk.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2006

Japanese whale institute attacks U.K. claims

LONDON (Kyodo) A Japanese research institute is disputing claims by British environmentalists that whale meat is being used in pet food.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 18, 2006

All eyes on Mourinho ahead of Barcelona-Chelsea showdown

LONDON -- As Jose Mourinho has won the domestic title in Portugal and England plus the UEFA Cup and Champions League with FC Porto, there would appear few tests left for the Chelsea manager to face.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2006

Boardroom tussles reflect changes in M&As

The decorum traditionally seen in Japan's mergers and acquisitions has broken down, as hostile takeover attempts have grabbed the spotlight.
EDITORIALS
Feb 17, 2006

Numbers to grow by

With Japan's economy following a recovery path, how fast it should grow in coming years is a subject of vigorous debate in the government and the ruling parties. The debate, however, is being conducted largely in numerical terms, with the focus on how to set target levels for nominal growth rates (excluding...
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2006

Kobe airport opens amid hope

KOBE -- In what its supporters hope is not an ill omen, Kobe's new airport opened in fog early Thursday morning.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2006

Number of juvenile felons dropped 8.3% in 2005

2005 saw an 8.3 percent decline in the number of people age 14 to 19 identified as suspects in murders, robberies and other Penal Code offenses from a year earlier to 123,715, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2006

Trading houses join effort to boost economies of regional communities

Trading houses are teaming up with local governments to foster homegrown industries that could revitalize small cities and towns.
From anguish to aggression: Trump goes on offense after midair collision
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a briefing on Thursday about the midair crash in Washington.
Mind the gap — and the shoulder checking: Dealing with pushy people in Japan's crowded spaces
Tokyo’s notoriously crowded trains and train stations can be stressful for many. Unfortunately, the ぶつかり男 (butsukari otoko, bumping man) takes his stress out on others through shoving, elbowing and shoulder checks.
AstraZeneca and Daiichi’s breast cancer drug gets EU backing
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Datroway breast cancer treatment, which the companies expect will eventually become a blockbuster, was recommended for approval in the European Union.
Japan scrambles jets as Russian bombers fly over high seas
Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bombers perform a flypast during the victory day parade in Moscow in June 2020.
Trump says Ishiba will visit him next week
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Friday.
Fuji TV’s go-big PR strategy wins grudging praise globally
Fuji TV executives take questions during a news conference on Monday in Tokyo in which some participants became unruly.
Two decades of unparalleled access into the world of Hayao Miyazaki
Documentary director Kaku Arakawa’s filming style — naturalistic, intimate and unobtrusive — proved essential to portraying anime powerhouse Hayao Miyazaki as a man as flawed and human as he is a visionary artist in “Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron.”
For two weeks only, cold-water yellowtail can give you chills
Yellowtail caught during the coldest period of the year is delicious enough — but paired with a classic method of marinade and pan-searing, it's divine.
In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback
Though vegan restaurants have been on the upswing since 2017, Japanese vegans still lack a wide variety of options.
Who are the key figures involved in the growing Fuji TV scandal?
Fuji TV adviser Hisashi Hieda in 2005

Podcast

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

Longform

Ayumi Matsuki, a priestess at Yoshiwara Shrine, shows off some "o-mamori" charms. She says visitors to the shrine have increased since the NHK drama “Unbound” began airing this month.
Tracing Tsutaya Juzaburo, Edo’s media maverick
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