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BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2005

Industries hit by fuel costs may get state aid

The government will quickly study ways to help the transportation industry and others hit by soaring crude oil prices, a Cabinet Office official said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2005

Japan, U.S. plan joint command center

Japan and the United States plan to establish a joint air-defense command center at the U.S. Air Force's Yokota base in western Tokyo by fiscal 2009, Japanese and U.S. government sources said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 24, 2005

Cambodian envoy to Japan on three-point mission

"Hello, hello," Pou Sothirak greets warmly as he enters the reception room of the Cambodian Embassy in Akasaka, central Tokyo. Then as a staff member follows on behind, with a camera: "Now stand here with me for a photo. Right, we're done. We have to let him take these official pictures, otherwise he...
Sep 24, 2005

North Korea may have mineral bounty

North Korea may be considered a country with few natural resources, but the United States and Europe are eyeing possible large deposits of minerals there that could be used in the high-tech and weapons industries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Sep 22, 2005

Becoming Japanese to satisfy the American eye

The elegant and enigmatic new exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, "The End of Time," is a retrospective on four decades of work by Hiroshi Sugimoto. One of Japan's most internationally acclaimed artists, Sugimoto uses photography to condense events in celebrated time-exposure series such as "Seascapes"...
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2005

Koizumi to steer new lawmakers clear of factions

The Liberal Democratic Party leadership launched a series of study sessions Tuesday for its 83 fledgling House of Representatives members, a move expected to further weaken faction influence.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 17, 2005

Talking about the modern Japanese woman

Meeting last Monday, Barbara Hamill Sato is not sure how many women won seats in the previous day's general election, but suspects it may be the most ever.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 17, 2005

Kingsley-Rowe Potter

MADELEY, England -- As many retired English people like to do, June Kingsley-Rowe Potter lives in the countryside. She takes her dog on long-distance walks around Madeley. She cares for her garden. She volunteers for charity work, and enjoys traveling. For her research into local history, she reads ancient...
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Probe establishes 20 km orbit around asteroid

The Hayabusa space probe has moved to within 20 km of an asteroid orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars after a 24-month journey on a mission to bring rock samples and other data back to Earth, according to Japan's space agency.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

Koizumi tells acolytes to stay away from factions

Despite the Liberal Democratic Party's overwhelming victory in Sunday's Lower House election, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appears to want to exert even more control over the LDP.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2005

ANA fires pilot over theft scandal

All Nippon Airways has fired a pilot who allegedly stole flight manuals that were subsequently sold on an Internet auction site, the company said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 11, 2005

Assemblywoman puts sex on the agenda

In April 2003, 28-year-old Kanako Otsuji became the youngest person ever elected to the Osaka prefectural assembly when she won the seat for Sakai City. It was a distinction made more special by the fact that there were only six other women in the 110-member assembly at the time. However, another distinction...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 10, 2005

Nobuko Somers

LONDON -- In a Dickensian setting near the British Museum is a bookshop. Open the door, and the inviting musty smell of old books strikes you at once. On the ground floor, stacked shelves support books in English that "cover all aspects of the Far East and the Middle East." Rare books have their secure...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 8, 2005

Could chimp genome answer Plato's question?

In the 1960s, Toshisada Nishida, of Kyoto University, set up a long-term research project in the Mahale Mountains of Tanzania. His aim was to study our closest relatives in the wild. His work, and that of Jane Goodall, whose field site was some 170 km north, in Gombe, transformed the way we view chimps....
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2005

Train crash report lays main blame on speeding

An interim report on the deadly April 25 crash of a speeding commuter train on West Japan Railway Co.'s Fukuchiyama Line touches on the driver's apparent erratic behavior but leaves many questions unanswered.
EDITORIALS
Sep 7, 2005

Katrina's grim reminder

Sadly, we are accustomed to the regular occurrence of natural disasters. It seems as if every few months a storm, flood, tsunami or earthquake devastates a country, exacts a frightening toll, and reminds us that we remain susceptible to the forces of the physical world. In the perennial struggle between...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2005

Neo-emperor of evil genius

NEW DELHI — History is replete with myths woven by victors. The myths about Mao Zedong, including his military exploits and triumphs over imperialism and capitalism, have helped keep the Chinese communists in power, even as a transformed China now practices capitalism and presents itself as a large...
COMMENTARY
Sep 4, 2005

Neo-emperor of evil genius

NEW DELHI -- History is replete with myths woven by victors. The myths about Mao Zedong, including his military exploits and triumphs over imperialism and capitalism, have helped keep the Chinese communists in power, even as a transformed China now practices capitalism and presents itself as a large...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2005

Neo-emperor of evil genius

NEW DELHI — History is replete with myths woven by victors. The myths about Mao Zedong, including his military exploits and triumphs over imperialism and capitalism, have helped keep the Chinese communists in power, even as a transformed China now practices capitalism and presents itself as a large...
EDITORIALS
Sep 4, 2005

Asia's ever expanding arms market

A sia's economic growth has many effects, not least of which is providing more money for governments to buy arms. So it should come as no surprise that the most authoritative assessment of the world's conventional arms market puts Asian nations at the top of the list of arms purchasers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 3, 2005

El Haddawi seeks sensational Bavarian waterfall

On any normal day, Thomas Farnbacher can wave to his partner, Ingo Taleb-Rashid, across Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria. "I live one side with my wife and children in a small village. Rashid lives on the other. The lake is too big to see one another, of course. But we know we are there."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 3, 2005

Will Carter

LONDON -- "Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
Sep 2, 2005

Tokyo eyes MSDF exit at expiry of Indian Ocean duty

Japan may withdraw the Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels providing logistic support in the Indian Ocean for naval vessels involved in the U.S.-led antiterror campaign in and around Afghanistan when the mission expires Nov. 1, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2005

Japan wants to expand coral under disputed EEZ islets

Japan plans to study how it could expand coral reefs around a pair of Pacific Ocean outcroppings at the center of a territorial dispute with China, the government said Wednesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Sep 1, 2005

Learning to enjoy where waters flow free

Every summer in Japan there is news of a few children drowning in rivers, and the message that comes from the media with those tragic stories is that rivers are dangerous and children should not go near them.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2005

ANA captain held in theft of jetliner manuals

An All Nippon Airways pilot was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing jumbo jet flight operation manuals that were later sold to the general public by an aircraft goods dealer via the Internet, police said.

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