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COMMENTARY
Nov 30, 2002

West Coast optimists say the sun also rises

LOS ANGELES -- Sometimes the only explanation for it is that there are two Americas. The East Coast America, with its dark cynicism and worldly seen-it-all sangfroid, sees Asia as mostly a problem and a threat. But West Coast America, soaking up its proximity to Asia and reveling in local Asian ethnicities...
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2002

Katayama to tackle vote controversy

Home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama pledged Friday to rectify an unconstitutional situation in which votes cast in elections on behalf of disabled people who are unable to write or go to the polls are not accepted.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 30, 2002

Celebrating 'washi' in tune with Kyoto winters

Traditional farmhouses amid wintry landscapes. Schoolchildren under brightly colored umbrellas cross snow-covered paddy fields. Footprints mark an otherwise pristine street scene after a snowfall. Then, as if to remind us that summer will soon be coming round again, a woman bearing a child on her back...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 30, 2002

Japanese made funny by 'gaijin' gaffes

Some people collect rocks. Others stamps. Still others beer cans.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2002

Panel urges patience, carrots for Pyongyang

A government foreign policy advisory panel recommended Thursday that Japan seek gradual changes in North Korea instead of pursuing a "quick overthrow of the current regime" and use economic aid as a carrot.
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2002

Publishers look to fit all books with IC tags

The publishing industry will launch a study aimed at incorporating integrated circuit tags into all books sold in Japan by 2005, industry sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2002

Microsoft to reveal source code to Japan, which has eyed Linux

Microsoft Corp. will disclose the source code of the Windows operating system to the Japanese government in line with the government's e-Japan project, company officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 28, 2002

Superfly just f- f- f- fades away, showing that insects age too

Neil Young referred to it with, "It's better to burn out than to fade away" while Pete Townshend echoed the sentiment with the line, "I hope I die before I get old."
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2002

Officials discuss female Afghan teaching scheme

Visiting Afghan school officials met Tuesday with education minister Atsuko Toyama to discuss plans for a program to train female Afghan teachers.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2002

FSA to allow life insurers to cut yields

To ward off bankruptcy amid the deteriorating investment climate, the Financial Services Agency will allow life insurance companies to reduce the investment returns they have promised to policyholders, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 24, 2002

Restored parts, restructured lives

Some things just cannot be replaced once they are lost.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 24, 2002

Designed to deceive

The next time you visit a department store, head over to the luxury-goods section, stop in front of a leather bag by Louis Vuitton or Gucci, and just reach out and touch it.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2002

Angolans starve as oil revenue vanishes

NEW YORK -- It is a sad paradox that one of the potentially richest developing countries in the world is going through one of its worst crises in history. It is a humanitarian crisis that is, to a large extent, the result of that country's corrupt leadership. While the threat of starvation rages throughout...
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2002

Meeting opens in Kobe to raise public awareness of AIDS

KOBE -- Africans with the human immunodeficiency virus stressed to participants of an international symposium here Friday the importance of considering the issue their own and listening to the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 23, 2002

Marketing Cardiff as cultural capital of Europe

This is quite a month for Bet (Elizabeth) Davies. On Nov. 28, she will receive an award from the Japanese ambassador in London on behalf of the government for services rendered to to the Japanese community in Wales, and her work in bridging Japan and the U.K. in general.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Nov 22, 2002

"Noughts and Crosses," "Krazy Kow Saves the World -- Well, Almost"

"Noughts and Crosses," Malorie Blackman, Corgi Publishing; 2002; 445 pp. Children's writers often conjure up imaginary worlds in their fiction; and making those worlds convincing is no easy job. Perhaps there's one thing that's harder, though -- writing a compelling story that makes us think about our...
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2002

Fukuda denies that Japan backs halting of KEDO deal

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda dismissed a report Wednesday that Japan is ready to agree to a U.S. proposal to suspend a project aimed at providing North Korea with light-water nuclear reactors.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2002

Pyongyang's abductions spell fallout for Chongryun

OSAKA -- The junior high school girl, who asked to be referred to only as "Son," appeared on the verge of tears when she recalled what happened.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2002

Government overspent in resort development

The government grossly overestimated demand and unnecessarily invested large sums in designated resort areas in 41 prefectures based on a law to promote and develop resort-related industries, according to a draft report by a study group of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2002

China afflicted by illegal flights of capital

While China continues to attract much of the foreign capital that comes into Asia's emerging market economies, it appears these inflows are increasingly needed to offset capital flight. A flood of unregistered outflows from China has been compounded by the difficulty in tracking outbound movements of...
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2002

Good neighbors to diversity

Japanese are increasingly waking up to find that their new neighbors are foreigners who have settled in this country. What should be done to build an affluent multicultural society in Japan? The Sapporo District Court recently handed down a ruling that makes us think about this question. Three foreigners...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 17, 2002

Skeletons in the academic closet

"Those who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness'' -- John Milton (1608-74)
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 16, 2002

A whole lot of shaking going on in my mind

Earthquakes are not laughable affairs. The breadth of the destruction and depth of the human tragedy demand only a solemn response.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2002

Trade pact could trap ASEAN into state of irrelevance

HONOLULU -- Supporters of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) argue that numbers tell the story. And indeed, they do.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2002

U.S. sets off underwater blasts

The U.S. military on Thursday carried out a test involving underwater explosions in the Sea of Japan off Shimane Prefecture, in spite of protests from Japan.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 14, 2002

Mammals get early warning on climate change

President George W. Bush and the U.S. government might not be in denial of climate change these days, but their position is little more responsible than the cowboy stance Bush assumed on first coming to power. Climate change is happening, but hell, there's nothing to be done about it, they say.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2002

The garden of Escher delights

"Mathematicians," wrote M.C. Escher in a 1958 essay, "have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it."
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ¥5 trillion in tax revenue annually.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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