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CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 23, 2003

N. Korea: where NGOs fear to go

PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: The NGO Experience in North Korea, edited by L. Gordon Flake and Scott Snyder. Praeger Publishers, 2003, 176 pp., $45 (cloth). Pity the poor nongovernmental organizations trying to work in North Korea. They face a monumental challenge -- aiding a society that is starving and...
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2003

Mitsui Chemicals sees profit plunge

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. said Friday its group net profit tumbled 71.3 percent in the fiscal first half of 2003 to 3.71 billion yen due to extraordinary losses.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2003

Earnings results leave everyone sweating at TSE

The number of companies that announced their earnings results for the first half of fiscal 2003 peaked Friday at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, leaving the TSE press club packed with perspiring reporters and company officials.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2003

Contractors see mixed results in first-half earnings

Four major construction companies reported mixed group earnings results Friday for the fiscal first half of 2003.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2003

On a slow but steady track

Japan's economy, though beset by uncertainties, is recovering steadily. That is the message of the latest government report on the gross domestic product (GDP), which was published last week by the Cabinet Office. In the third quarter, July through September, the real GDP -- excluding effects of falling...
MORE SPORTS
Nov 21, 2003

All Blacks take third place after uninspiring playoff

SYDNEY -- New Zealand outclassed a largely second-string French team 40-13 at the Telstra Stadium in Sydney on Thursday to claim third place in the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2003

Starbucks Japan profit sinks 58%

Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd. said Thursday its profit for the first half of fiscal 2003 plummeted 58 percent to 93 million yen due to costs associated with closing unprofitable stores.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2003

Tepco hurt by fallout from nuclear reactor closures

Tokyo Electric Power Co. posted an 86.85 billion yen net profit in the fiscal first half of 2003, down 44 percent from a year earlier.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2003

Shiatsu to soothe the nervous Chihuahua?

Dog owners will readily say that just being around their pets helps ease their stress. But beyond petting and feeding, how can owners return the compliment and relieve their animals' tension? Or else just pamper them to the max?
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2003

Restore Japanese confidence in nuclear power: IEA

The International Energy Agency urged Japan on Tuesday to restore public confidence in nuclear energy in light of its plans to increase its nuclear power output by 30 percent by 2010.
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Nov 19, 2003

A helping handyman

Watching Didier Courbot at work, you would probably think he was a nut.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2003

Japan Telecom Holdings sees red

Japan Telecom Holdings Co. sank into the red in the fiscal first half of 2003 due to share evaluation losses related to the sale of its land-line telephone service unit Japan Telecom Co.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2003

Fuji Heavy reports 50% decline in operating profit

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. said Monday its consolidated operating profit in the first half of fiscal 2003 tumbled 50.4 percent from the same period last year to 18.31 billion yen.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 16, 2003

Tamura to sit out Fukuoka meet

Ryoko Tamara, winner of the gold medal in the women's 48-kg class at the Sydney Olympics, will not take part in the upcoming 2003 Fukuoka Women's Judo Championships, the All Japan Judo Federation said Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 16, 2003

Spring is in the air

It's party time in Tokyo -- again. You know, that twice yearly event when the capital's trendy restaurants and coffee shops seem to be overflowing with leggy, blonde models from overseas. They're here to make a few bucks, have a few parties -- and also have a stab at furthering their careers.
Events
Nov 16, 2003

KANSAI: Who & What

British Council hosts picnic for children: The British Council's Kyoto office is inviting children to its English-language picnic between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday at Demizu no Ogawa square in Kyoto-gyoen National Garden in Kamigyo Ward.
EDITORIALS
Nov 16, 2003

A word for everything

"McJob" is just one of 10,000 new words, or new meanings for old words, listed in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. Browse the company's online sampler of the latest additions for a fascinating glimpse of what the English language -- as eclectic a scavenger as the crow -- has picked...
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2003

SARS, Iraq war bludgeon JAL earnings

Japan Airlines System Corp. said Friday it incurred a 57.59 billion yen net loss in the first half of fiscal 2003 due to the SARS epidemic and the Iraq war.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2003

Yakult Honsha sees net profit slide

Yakult Honsha Co. said Friday its group sales and pretax profit for the first half of fiscal 2003 declined slightly from year-before levels.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2003

Graduates enjoy starting salary hike

The average starting salary for male and female university graduates rose 1.5 percent in 2003 from a year before to 198,100 yen, the biggest increase on record, the labor ministry said Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

European business group makes pitch for robust deregulation

The European Business Community in Japan called Thursday for an improved investment climate through drastic deregulation to achieve Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's pledge to double foreign direct investment by 2008.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Beerlike drink shipments may fall

Shipments of "happoshu," the low-malt cousin of beer, are expected to post their first year-on-year fall in 2003, according to industry data released Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Nov 13, 2003

Poor farmers pay price for subsidies

Beyond the negotiations and protesters that highlight agricultural trade talks lies a simple reality: In the end, each nation must feed its own people.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2003

MMC eyes North American strategy

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will release a strategic review of its North American operations early next year.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2003

Takara's net profit takes a dive

Takara Co.'s group net profit for the fiscal first half of 2003 fell 28.6 percent from a record high a year earlier to 1.58 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2003

NTT posts nation's largest operating profit

NTT Corp. posted the nation's largest operating profit for the fiscal first half of 2003.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 12, 2003

Gift-giving season came early for the Hawks and Giants

"Kokubo dealt to Giants" read our headline above the story reporting the transfer of infielder Hiroki Kokubo from the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks to the Yomiuri Giants on Nov. 4. But how would this appear in the sports transactions columns listed in many newspapers in North America and around the world?
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2003

Deflation still Koizumi's bane

With the ruling coalition having won Sunday's House of Representatives election, albeit with a smaller majority, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to stick with his structural reform agenda.
Trump pledges to save U.S. from 'decline,' vowing new 'golden age'
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Cedar pollen is already in the air in Tokyo
Climate change and urbanization are believed to have contributed to the earliest ever observation of cedar pollen in Tokyo, on Jan. 8, an expert says.
Large fire breaks out near Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower
Smoke rises from a fire at a commercial building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka, on Tuesday.
U.S. Osprey accidentally drops cargo into sea in Okinawa
A V-22 Osprey
What went wrong at Fuji TV's news conference on allegations against Nakai?
Fuji TV President Koichi Minato speaks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo.
'America first' returns as Trump ditches focus on allies and rules-based order
U.S. President Donald Trump reviews troops during his inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington on Monday.
Japan looks to learn from the past with bid to build Australian warships
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami frigate, of the class of the same name, is anchored at the MSDF's naval base in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in September 2022.
Amid rising world hunger, a Japan-inspired group in Kenya is making a big impact
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, serves food during the opening of a new kitchen in Mombasa County, Kenya, in 2022. The organization started in 2012 by feeding 25 children out of a single kitchen. Now it feeds nearly half a million every day.
From Tokyo to Manhattan, Takuma Watanabe stirs up a stiff drink
It's taken Takuma Watanabe little time to establish himself as one of New York's hottest bartenders.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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