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COMMENTARY
Mar 21, 2005

A cow walk toward a crisis

The Japan-U.S. row over beef imports looms as a grave problem that could develop into serious bilateral friction. Until recently the two countries had enjoyed what many experts regarded as the best relations yet in the postwar years. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi supported U.S. President George W....
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 20, 2005

Who says you can't teach old baseball teams new tricks?

"New" is the watchword for Japanese baseball in 2005.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Mar 20, 2005

Can machines can care

Whether selling Scarab beetles for kids or punctuating the path up Mount Fuji, vending machines are one of Japan's most idiosyncratic features. Although some question the "waste" of energy involved in the ubiquitous mechanized retail outlets -- about 2.6 million alone are hawking beverages -- their onward...
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2005

1.9% rise in vehicle sales eyed in '05

Sales of cars, trucks and buses in Japan in fiscal 2005 are projected to rise 1.9 percent over the previous year to 5,935,000 vehicles, an industry body said Thursday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 18, 2005

China flaunts wish to control

HONG KONG -- At the very moment that the world is captivated with the promise of China rising economically, China itself has provided two vivid examples of the danger that it is plunging politically.
COMMUNITY / LIFELINES
Mar 15, 2005

Repairs, fuel charges and a tax irritant

Upholsterer needed Tony has a chair -- actually more of a stool -- that is in dire need of recovering as well as replacement of the stuffing material. He is looking for any shops in the Tokyo (Shibuya) area that do this work.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2005

Annual wage talks heat up amid scandal, success

Industry officials say there will be a contrast in the imminent results of labor-management talks on wages and bonuses for 2005 between high-performance firms like Toyota Motor Corp. and other companies affected by high-profile scandals.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 13, 2005

Acceptance of foreign managers reflects yet another change in Japanese baseball

It is obvious Japanese baseball is changing. It was not all that long ago when such terms as free agency, posting, expansion, inter-league games and post-season playoffs were unheard of. Now, everyone here knows them.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 13, 2005

Out of the darkroom

JAPAN 1945 -- A U.S. MARINE'S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM GROUND ZERO, by Joe O'Donnell, foreword by Mark Selden, afterword by O'Donnell and Richard Lammers. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005, 88 pp., 80 b/w photos, $39.95 (cloth). In September 1945, Joe O'Donnell, a 23-year-old U.S. Marine Corps photographer...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Mar 10, 2005

"The Whispering Road," "The Pig in the Spigot"

"The Whispering Road," Livi Michael, Puffin Books; 2005; 336 pp. If you haven't read Charles Dickens yet, what could be a better introduction than Livi Michael's "The Whispering Road"? Michael's first novel for older children imbibes Dickens' influences, dramatic storytelling and colorful characterization...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 8, 2005

Creating laws out of thin air

With terrorists striking fear into governments worldwide, Japan too is currently considering its own version of America's Patriot Act, to be passed in a year or two.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2005

Dolls without borders

'T here is no new thing under the sun," said the preacher (Ecclesiastes, 1:9). Well, the preacher had it half right. Sometimes people come up with a brand-new thing in response to an age-old reality. Consider the case of Hong Kong-based software developer Eberhard Schoeneburg. According to recent reports,...
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 5, 2005

J. League gets with the world program

Who says the Japanese are inflexible?
MORE SPORTS
Mar 5, 2005

Marinos face major threat from rejuvenated Jubilo

Here is a team-by-team preview of the 18 clubs in the J. League's first division this season:
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2005

Japan Post to shut down 28 unprofitable leisure units

Japan Post will close 28 of its 120 leisure accommodation facilities nationwide before its privatization process begins in April 2007, sources said Wednesday.
SUMO
Mar 1, 2005

Foreign young guns promoted for basho

Bulgarian pinup Kotooshu will be mixing it with sumo's big guns as a new komusubi after the Japan Sumo Association released the rankings on Monday for the upcoming Spring Grand Sumo Tournament.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Feb 28, 2005

Beware of financial conglomerates in FSA's Wild Kingdom

Every year, the media trot out a list of Japan's most popular phrases. Last year's "phrase of the year" award went to "I feel ultra-fine!" -- the quote by swimmer Kosuke Kitajima who brought home multiple gold from the Athens Olympics.
COMMENTARY
Feb 28, 2005

Police have let trust escape

The Japanese police system was once regarded as one of the best in the world, but that is no longer true. In a spate of scandals, some officers are said to have created slush funds with public money while others have falsified internal reports to improve their performance records.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 23, 2005

Whitewash fails to cover the pain

In "Akuma no Uta, (Devil's Song)" the playwright Keiishi Nagatsuka, 29, seems to ask what we Japanese have learned from defeat in World War II. Leaning heavily on comedy, farce, satire and sometimes tragedy, Nagatsuka's answer -- as one of a generation only able to know about that human catastrophe from...
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2005

New airport tilts toward Asia

With the opening of Central Japan International Airport (Chubu airport) last week, Japan's aviation industry entered a new age. The new terminal will serve as a gateway to the 2005 World Exposition (Aichi Expo), which opens next month. Chubu airport is a new symbol of Nagoya, a vigorous commercial and...
Rugby
Feb 20, 2005

Toyota's old, young and brave hold off Toshiba in All Japan semifinals

If Toyota ever decides to branch out into making soap operas it could do no worse than call its show "The Old, the Young and the Brave," based on the performance of its rugby team at Tokyo's Chichibunomiya on Saturday, as it beat Toshiba Brave Lupus 24-19 in the semifinal of the 42nd All Japan Championship....
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Feb 20, 2005

Gumshoes who pass in the night

THE RED EARTH OF ALABAMA, by Michiro Naito. Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse, 2005, 188 pp., $23.95 (cloth). KINKI LULLABY, by Issac Adamson. New York: Dark Alley, 2004, 358 pp., $13.95, (paper). Even in this age of political correctness, it's proving difficult for popular fiction to wean itself from...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Feb 20, 2005

Sugar frosted, the Thai way

VERY THAI: Everyday Popular Culture, by Philip Cornwel-Smith, photographs by John Goss, preface by Alex Kerr. Bangkok: River Books, 2005, 257 pp., color illustrated, 995 baht (cloth). All countries have something of their own, something the dictionary calls "a kind or sort, especially in regard to appearance...
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Fuji TV kicks Livedoor's Horie off quiz show in latest takeover salvo

Fuji Television Network Inc. said Wednesday it has dropped Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie as a regular participant on one of its weekly quiz shows, citing the two firms' battle for control of a radio broadcaster.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Vstone leader Yamato gears up for RoboCup

OSAKA -- Members of Team OSAKA bubbled over with excitement after their teammate scored a goal in a penalty-kick shootout, leading the team to victory in a sort of world soccer championship. The little goal-scorer is a 39-cm humanoid robot named VisiON.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Chubu airport has high air-freight hopes

When Central Japan International Airport in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, opens Thursday, it hopes to become the nation's main international air freight hub.
TV networks drop Japan boy band star over sex allegations
Masahiro Nakai in Tokyo in October 2017
New York Times chooses Toyama and Osaka as top places to go in 2025
The Toyama City Library, designed by Kengo Kuma, in November. The library is part of a building called Toyama Kirari that also houses the Glass Art Museum.
Fast Retailing to raise starting monthly salary to ¥330,000
For store managers in their first or second year at Fast Retailing, the monthly salary is set to increase to ¥410,000 from the current ¥390,000.
U.S. Marine suspected of sexual assault in Okinawa
Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki
Japan flags foreign takeover of 7-Eleven owner as a security issue
A potential foreign acquisition of Japanese retail giant Seven & I would be "heavily related" to national security, Japan's economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday.
Sumo’s brotherhood gets latest inductee
Chugo Saito at Isenoumi stable on Friday. Saito has joined his older brother, Seigo, at the stable.
As standards rise, Tokyo Stock Exchange delistings hit decade high
The Tokyo Stock Exchange wants companies to improve governance and performance.
Swiping in Japan: How Gen Z is changing the dating app game
Many Japanese dating apps have ways to detail specific interests that can be as narrow as one particular TV show, game or an artist.
Blinken in final Japan visit as Trump's return weighs on Tokyo's mind
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya at the start of their working lunch at a hotel in Tokyo on Tuesday.
2720 — the year when Japan is left with just one child
Children at a traditional festival in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Thursday. A forecast made by Tohoku University professor Hiroshi Yoshida estimates that Japan will be left with just one child on Jan. 5, 2720, based on current birthrate trends.

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