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EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2002

Extension of SDF role needs debate

Tuesday's Cabinet decision to extend Japan's logistic support for the U.S.-led antiterror campaign should not come as a surprise, given the continuing threat of terrorism in and around Afghanistan. The decision, however, should be thoroughly discussed in the Diet because it is linked, even if implicitly,...
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2002

Crimes set record high, arrests record low in '01

Last year saw a record 2.74 million Penal Code violations, excluding traffic offenses, up 12 percent from 2000, but the arrest rate fell to a postwar low of 19.8 percent, the government reported Tuesday, adding that although foreigners committed a small percentage of the crimes, their offenses were models...
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2002

Government mulls abductee assistance measures

The government began consulting Monday with Liberal Democratic Party members on how Japan can take in and support the five known surviving Japanese abducted by North Korea and their immediate families still in the North, government officials said.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2002

No talks without pledge on abductees' kids: Abe

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe on Sunday urged North Korea to promise that the children of five Japanese abductees can come to Japan.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2002

Public split on abductee family story

The magazine Shukan Kin'yobi (Weekly Friday) said Saturday it has received numerous complaints about its interview in Pyongyang with the family of Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese abducted 24 years ago by North Korea who returned to Japan for the first time on Oct. 15.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2002

KEDO plan welcomed

Japan supports the decision by the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization to freeze oil shipments to North Korea beginning in December, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2002

Nikkei shrugs off GDP data to hit new 19-year low

The Nikkei stock average fell to a new 19-year closing low Wednesday in thin and narrow trading, as the market ignored new data showing the Japanese economy maintained growth from the start of this year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2002

Plan to accommodate abductees mulled

The government will soon compile a plan for the nation to take in the five Japanese abductees whom North Korea recently allowed to return home and their immediate families once Pyongyang agrees to let them leave, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2002

Tax shortfall makes extra budget likely

Tax revenue will likely see a shortfall of some 2.7 trillion yen to 2.8 trillion yen for the current fiscal year, it was learned Wednesday -- a situation that makes the compilation of an extra budget increasingly likely.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2002

Dispatch of MSDF transport OK'd

The ruling coalition parties endorsed on Wednesday a government plan to dispatch a Maritime Self-Defense Force transport vessel to ship heavy machinery from Thailand to countries neighboring Afghanistan.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2002

LDP bigwig Muraoka has tumor removed from lung

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Kanezo Muraoka, acting chairman of the party's largest faction, has had a cancerous tumor removed from his lungs, it was learned Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 14, 2002

SEC's post-Enron reforms pose challenge for Japanese multinationals

NEW YORK -- As if Japan's corporate sector didn't have problems with long-term economic deterioration and deflation, the stock market disaster and nonperforming loans, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has added another headache. The issue at hand is the extent to which Japanese companies will...
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2002

Economic ministers put extra budget on agenda

Key economic ministers put the compilation of an extra budget for fiscal 2002 on the political agenda Tuesday but maintained an official decision has yet to be made.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2002

Bones not abductee's: Japan

In a finding that raises serious doubts over the credibility of Pyongyang's accounts of the kidnapping of Japanese nationals, authorities in Tokyo have concluded that bones North Korea claims are the remains of Kaoru Matsuki are probably not his.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2002

Lower House approves legal education bills

The House of Representatives passed three bills Tuesday aimed at improving the educational system for legal professionals in a bid to increase both their quality and number.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2002

Japan puts progress before talks

Japan said Tuesday it is not ready to respond to North Korea's proposal to hold the next round of normalization talks later this month, citing slow progress on the issue of abducted Japanese.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2002

Government contemplates support for spouses of ethnic North Koreans

The government may consider offering livelihood support to Japanese who went to Pyongyang as spouses of North Koreans decades ago and who have since returned to Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2002

Koizumi defends intervention

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday defended the government's plan to try to revive insolvent companies that are cut off by their banks amid growing criticism it is attempting to interfere in private sector affairs.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2002

Machinery orders up but outlook remains uncertain

The nation's core private-sector machinery orders showed solid growth in September, but the outlook for business investment remained unclear as orders are expected to drop over the next three months, the government said Monday.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 10, 2002

Coming of age in Heartbreak Hotel, New Jersey

WAYLAID, by Ed Lin. Kaya Press: New York, 2002, 169 pp., $12.95 (paper) This terrific first novel by Chinese-American writer Ed Lin revolves around a 12-year-old coming of age in New Jersey in the 1970s, burdened by his virginity and motivated mainly by the desire to lose it.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2002

Okinawa to host Pacific island talks

Japan will host the third summit of Pacific island nations to enhance cooperation among its Pacific neighbors, the government said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2002

Former diplomat Saotome to head new NGO mission

The Foreign Ministry on Friday appointed Mitsuhiro Saotome, the former ambassador to Zambia, as the first ambassador in charge of nongovernmental organizations, a post newly created under ministry reforms.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2002

Tokyo consumer confidence down

The government said Friday its key gauge to measure consumer confidence in Tokyo fell in October from the previous month for the third consecutive monthly drop.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2002

Jury still out on sending Aegis ship to help U.S.

Japan has not decided whether to send one of its high-tech destroyers to the Arabian Sea to help the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, the government's top spokesman said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2002

Activist expelled by China returns home

OSAKA -- A Japanese NGO official who was detained in China last week returned to Japan on Wednesday after being expelled by Beijing.
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2002

Report lacks post-reform visions

'N o Reform, No Growth: Part Two" is the title of the government's economic and fiscal report released Tuesday. A sequel to last year's report with the same title, this year's adds up to a reaffirmation of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's structural reform agenda. That is encouraging, yet people are...
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2002

Iraq factors block Powell visit plans

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has canceled a planned visit to Japan next week over developments related to Iraq, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2002

'Chuhai' producers continue to ride explosion

The market for "chuhai" cocktails is exploding in size, and producers are waging ad campaigns emphasizing low prices and quality ingredients such as fruit juice.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 5, 2002

Antlers outsmart Reds to capture Nabisco Cup

A 59th-minute goal by midfielder Mitsuo Ogasawara handed the Kashima Antlers a deserved 1-0 victory over the Urawa Reds in the Nabisco Cup Final in front of 56,064 fans at Tokyo National Stadium on Monday.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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