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BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2003

Radiant male clerks look to tempt female shoppers

Women are facing a cunning new strategy aimed at loosening their purse strings -- attractive young men working as clerks in cosmetics and women's clothing departments.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 27, 2003

Hobbit's-eye view of world

You cannot put yourself in Frodo's shoes as Hobbits walk barefoot. You can, however, walk in Frodo's virtual footsteps.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2003

Drill simulates chemical terror attack on Kawasaki

Amid deepening jitters that Japan may become a target of terrorists, government officials on Tuesday held a drill simulating massive casualties in an urban chemical attack.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 25, 2003

How vital is technology to your life?

Paola VillaniStudent, 24
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2003

Broker sometimes trips on Japanese but always finds footing

Fourth in a series AKEMI NAKAMURA Staff writer Shortly after she began working at the Hong Kong unit of Nomura Securities Co. in March 1993, Sandra Wu Wen-Hsiu grimaced in pain and said in Japanese to her Japanese boss: "Shamelessness is aching."
EDITORIALS
Nov 24, 2003

Between a rock and a hard place

China continues to grow at a blistering pace. It is emerging as one of the drivers of the global economy, sucking in exports from its neighbors and providing returns for investors. Increasingly, however, there are concerns that China is overheating: Growth is bound to stall as the business cycle asserts...
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2003

Former Nihon Keizai unit execs held

Three people, including a former president and a former managing director of a Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. affiliate, were arrested Sunday for alleged aggravated breach of trust by issuing checks for nonexistent transactions.
COMMENTARY
Nov 24, 2003

Stub out the smoking habit

The Tokyo District Court has rejected a damage suit filed against Japan Tobacco Inc. and the national government by seven former smokers who said they developed cancer and other health troubles from long years of smoking. The suit, filed by victims of lung cancer, cancer of the larynx and emphysema,...
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2003

SDF troops to begin antiterror training for Iraq

In preparation for their planned dispatch to Iraq, Ground Self-Defense Force units will begin training this week to deal with terrorist attacks, it was learned Sunday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 23, 2003

State gambles with the future of 'discarded' kids

Last month there were two news stories about legal complications arising from the conception of children through special medical procedures. In one, a surrogate mother in California gave birth to twins who were the product of a Japanese man's sperm and the egg of a third-party Asian-American woman. In...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 23, 2003

Listening post: Recorded

Dino Saluzzi "Responsorium" (ECM)
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2003

U.S. takes first step away from S. Korea

HONOLULU -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's visit to South Korea this past week should be seen for what it really was, an early step in a long, gradual disengagement of U.S. land forces from South Korea and a greater reliance on sea power to maintain an American security posture in Asia....
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2003

New U.S.-style law schoolsmay not get state subsidies

The Finance Ministry is planning to refuse to provide state subsidies to U.S.-style law schools that are to be established next spring to address a shortage of practicing lawyers in Japan, ministry sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2003

50 police postsin Tokyo to have videophones fitted

Around 50 police posts in Tokyo that are often unmanned are to be equipped with videophones from the next fiscal year so the public can contact police, officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2003

Power crisis helped public save energy

Awareness of the need to conserve energy among residents of the capital increased after Tokyo Electric Power Co. shut down all 17 of its nuclear reactors, sparking fears of an energy crisis this summer, according to a survey released recently by Dentsu Inc.'s Center for Consumer Studies.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2003

Bill outlines how Japan can deal with foreign attack

The government unveiled the outline of a bill Friday on how to protect Japan in the event that it is attacked.
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.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 22, 2003

Don't let Cat from Hell out of the bag!

My veterinarian is known in town as the Vet from Hell but I still take my cat there because, you see, while he very well may be the Vet from Hell, I have the Cat from Hell. Whenever I take my cat to the vet, I wonder if it's really fair to expose him to the beast. She's almost as bad as a virus.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2003

Yamasaki plots political comeback

Taku Yamasaki, a former Liberal Democratic Party vice president who lost his Diet seat in the Nov. 9 general election, might run in next summer's House of Councilors race. Sources said Thursday that Yamasaki is considering running on the proportional representation part of the Upper House race.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2003

Keidanren urged to expel Takefuji

A group of lawyers urged the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) on Thursday to expel Takefuji Corp. following police raids on its headquarters last week over a wire-tapping scandal.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2003

Koizumi wins Diet approval to stay on as prime minister

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was re-elected Wednesday for a second term following the Nov. 9 House of Representatives general election that returned his coalition to power.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 20, 2003

Talk of Kobe joining Spurs just hot air

NEW YORK -- Welcome to the NBA where Jazz fans are wondering why John Stockton took so long to retire and turn over the point guard responsibilities to Carlos Arroyo.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2003

Worlds apart: a tale of two Asian cities

LONDON -- I have spent most of the last two months traveling in the poor areas of western China (the mountain areas in south Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu) and in Uzbekistan. What a contrast! You could describe the development process in western China as two steps forward and one step back, while in Uzbekistan...

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