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BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2005

Automakers pin hopes on motor show

The 39th Tokyo Motor Show opens Saturday, and industry officials are hoping the 16-day extravaganza inspires drivers to loosen their purse strings and buy a new vehicle.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2005

50 years of showcasing cars: You've come a long way baby

No one could have imagined the remarkable advances of Japanese automakers 50 years ago, when owning a car was only a dream for most people.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 18, 2005

Togo to replace Ivory Coast for Japan friendly

Japan will play Togo in next month's home friendly instead of Ivory Coast as announced previously, Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi said Monday.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2005

Murakami, Tokyo Style reach settlement

Outspoken financier Yoshiaki Murakami said Monday his fund has reached a court-mediated settlement with Tokyo Style Co. after the apparel firm's president, Yoshio Takano, agreed to pay 100 million yen in compensation to his own firm for inflicting damages as a result of investments that turned sour....
COMMENTARY
Oct 16, 2005

China needs an independent judiciary

HONG KONG -- China has performed a miracle over the last quarter century, lifting hundreds of millions of people from dire poverty and turning the country into an economic powerhouse. In the process, Beijing has raised people's expectations not only of a better life but of a fairer society.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 16, 2005

Popular blog goes drama at Fuji TV's "Oni Yome Nikki" and more

Blogs are getting popular in Japan, as shown in the new Fuji TV drama series "Oni Yome Nikki (Devil Bride Diary)" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), which is based on one written by a woman called Sanae. The blog's theme, as is apparent in the title, is the casual, everyday cruelty wives inflict on their husbands....
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 16, 2005

UNEAR THING FACT IN CLASSIC FICTION

'Robinson Crusoe" has fascinated explorer Daisuke Takahashi ever since his elementary school days, when he first read the classic adventure tale about a British sailor who lived on a desert island for 28 years. Imagining that he, too, was marooned on an isolated island, the young Takahashi would roast...
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Tsunami survivor returns to help Sri Lanka

and TECH Japan members Suvendrini Kakuchi and Akiko Ozaki show off an apron made at a sewing center for tsunami and civil war survivors here in northern Sri Lanka.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Oct 14, 2005

Trendy Naka-Meguro is on the Bals

It used to be that Japanese consumers tended not to spend a great deal on their homes. Over the last decade or so, however, that has changed, and firms like Bals Corporation have proved extremely successful at selling the notion of home improvement to Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2005

Traffic won't stop for inclusive Tokyo marathon

Some 2,000 runners will pound the pavement Monday in Tokyo in Japan's only urban marathon open to both fast and slow alike.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 8, 2005

Festivals: mikoshi, sake and Go! Hey!

It's autumn in Japan, and many cities and towns are holding fall festivals. The Shiraishi Island Fall Festival is a two-day event where we welcome the Shinto gods as if they were the Emperor and Empress.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

Bankers set rules on theft redress

The Japanese Bankers Association released detailed guidelines Thursday listing the conditions under which bank depositors may not receive full compensation in the event that they lose money via bank-card thefts and forgeries.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

BOJ seen seeking right time to act normal, start guiding rates

After more than four years of ultraloose monetary policy by the Bank of Japan, the economic slump is waning and many BOJ watchers, keying in on recent repeated hints, are predicting the stance may end in the near future.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 6, 2005

Give them what they want

When Paul Baron moved to Tokyo three years ago, he was excited to explore the city's vast art world as he had been an avid follower of art events while studying graphic design in London. There was only one problem: Where to find out what was going on. It should have been easy; it should have all been...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 5, 2005

Sugiyama moves to 2nd round

Fifth-seed Ai Sugiyama advanced to the women's singles second round with a straight sets win over Alina Jidkova on a day of contrasting fortunes for Japanese players at the Japan Open on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2005

Tech show morphs into DVD war zone

CHIBA -- An annual technology exhibition that kicked off here Tuesday shows signs of becoming a battleground of sorts for the two next-generation DVD formats threatening to leave consumers with incompatible machines.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 4, 2005

Asagoe gets off to winning start

Seventh-seed Shinobu Asagoe overpowered Maria Vento-Kabchi in straight sets to advance to the second round of the women's singles at the Japan Open in Tokyo on Monday.
SUMO
Oct 4, 2005

Kotooshu prevails in one-day sumo event

Bulgarian sekiwake Kotooshu, who missed out on the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament title last month, won the All-Japan Rikishi Championship on Monday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 2, 2005

Killing your career in the media to keep your superiors happy

The vocation of journalism in Japan is not exactly the same as it is in the West. The "kisha club" system makes reporters beholden to the bureaucrats and politicians they cover rather than to the public they're supposed to serve, while the Japanese corporate tradition of on-the-job training means that...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 1, 2005

Ando, Suguri set for NHK Cup

Figure skaters Miki Ando, Fumie Suguri and Yukina Ota will appear at the NHK Cup International meet in December, the Japan Skating Federation said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2005

Officials need manual to deal with Muneo

The Foreign Ministry has drawn up an instruction manual detailing how bureaucrats should deal with corrupt Lower House member Muneo Suzuki, notorious for his past meddling in ministry affairs, officials said Friday.
COMMENTARY
Sep 29, 2005

Toward a nuclear Japan?

The United States cannot stop nuclear proliferation, even though Japan and others will expect it to keep trying. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has allowed North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons on the sly. What will Japan conclude from this?
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2005

Output slips at top three carmakers

Three of the nation's biggest automakers said Tuesday their domestic production in August fell from the same month a year ago, but two smaller automakers said production was up.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 27, 2005

Time well spent

Living in the world's second largest economy, it's often tempting to forget that there are people and organizations in Japan in dire need of help.
COMMENTARY
Sep 26, 2005

Underwhelmed in Okinawa

Most of the Japanese political community is all agog over the overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party in the Sept. 11 Lower House election. Okinawa Prefecture is the exception.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
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.”

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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