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BUSINESS
Mar 5, 2006

Softbank looks to acquire Japan unit of Vodafone

Softbank Corp. said Saturday it is in talks with Vodafone Group PLC of Britain about buying a controlling stake in Japanese subsidiary Vodafone K.K.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2006

20 years in prison eyed for fatal building defects

The government is considering legislation that would allow a 20-year prison term for people who deliberately design or construct illegal buildings whose collapse leads to fatalities, according to government sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2006

Obituary: Goro Koyama

Former Mitsui Bank President Goro Koyama died of heart failure Thursday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 96.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2006

Japan may hire controversial firm to dismantle camp in Iraq

The Defense Agency is considering hiring a U.S. firm to dismantle the Ground Self-Defense Force's camp in Samawah, Iraq, after the troops pull out by late May, informed sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2006

U.S. spy drone tested over Japan

The U.S. Air Force flew a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle in Japanese airspace last month, government sources said Saturday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 5, 2006

A few bows too many for shamed DPJ lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata

One picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words, and the one that graced the front page of the Feb. 24 Asahi Shimbun is worth more than all the kanji expended on the Democratic Party of Japan's e-mail fiasco.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 5, 2006

TBS's 'Kodai Hakka-tsu Mystery' reveals secrets to an ancient civilization and more

On Monday, March 6 at 9 p.m., TBS will present a two-hour documentary program on the recent discovery of an ancient civilization. "Kodai Hakka-tsu Mystery (Prehistoric Excavation Mystery)" follows an international team of archaeologists, including artist and Rikkyo University professor Katsuhiko Hibino,...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 5, 2006

Evolution of Japanese cinema and the design of its creators

A HUNDRED YEARS OF JAPANESE FILM, by Donald Richie. Kodansha International, 2005, 320 pp., $22 (paper). Among Japanophiles, Donald Richie doesn't need an introduction, having written over 40 books on Japan, including the definitive works on directors Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, and the first-ever...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Mar 5, 2006

Japan's social norms shaped by law

LAW IN EVERYDAY JAPAN: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes, by Mark D. West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 279 pp., $19.95 (paper). This is a superb book that explores the interaction of law, society and culture over a range of intriguing topics. In seven captivating case studies, Mark West...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Mar 5, 2006

Chizuko Ueno: Speaking up for her sex

In the United States today, it is no longer radical to suggest that the next president could be a woman. In Nordic countries, no husband would rail at a pregnant wife who expected him to share child-raising duties. And female heads of state are now found the world over.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 5, 2006

Doomed voice of truth screams out still against evil

Among the writers who most astutely characterized the morality of the 20th century, none may have been more accurate than the Norwegian novelist, essayist and playwright Jens Bjorneboe. His was a powerful voice of truth, and we need now, more than ever, to listen to it.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 5, 2006

A trip through the Strip

The phone rang while I was in the shower. But that's normal the world over. Abnormality -- by conventional Western standards -- took a few more minutes to arrive.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2006

Maehara apologizes to local chapters over e-mail

talks to DPJ Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama at a meeting of senior officials from the party's local chapters in Tokyo on Saturday.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 4, 2006

Autuori set for Kashima title tilt

Paulo Autuori needed a lot of convincing to leave Sao Paulo for the J. League.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 4, 2006

Chelsea makes UEFA look bad over Del Horno incident

LONDON -- Chelsea travels to Barcelona on Sunday for Tuesday's Champions League second leg at Nou Camp with its excuses already made should it bow out of European football's most prestigious club competition.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 4, 2006

Buchwald confident despite distractions

Guido Buchwald says Urawa's preseason plans have been thrown into chaos by the scheduling of Japan's World Cup warmup matches, but the German is still confident of leading the Reds to the J. League title.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 4, 2006

Japan pounds China

So much for shocking the world.
EDITORIALS
Mar 4, 2006

Revamping Japanese ODA

The government is planning to break up the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) as an integral part of reforms aimed at the nation's official development assistance (ODA) program. The bank's international finance division will be reorganized into a new government-run financial institution,...
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Most women born from '71 to '74 childless at 30

More than half of the women born during Japan's second postwar baby boom from 1971 to 1974 had not had any children by age 30, according to statistics released Friday by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Nukaga's head back on chopping block

Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga was grim-faced Feb. 24 as he told an audience of some 600 senior Self-Defense Forces officers and Defense Agency officials to clean up their organizations.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

School refuses Asahara son entry

A private junior high school in Saitama Prefecture has refused to enroll a son of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara, the condemned guru's lawyers said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2006

Bid-riggers to be barred for a while

Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga said Friday that 178 companies will be temporarily barred from bidding for defense facilities contracts following a series of bid-rigging incidents.
First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.
Typhoon-chaser's firsthand account of his pursuit of Shanshan
A washed-up boat on the shore of the city of Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday
Typhoon Shanshan batters Kyushu ahead of likely landfall
A satellite image shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu on Wednesday afternoon
New unproductive forces: the Chinese youth owning their unemployment
Job seekers crowd a job fair at Liberation Square in Shijiazhuang, China, in 2018.
Many job changers in Japan consider returning to former employer, survey says
One in three workers say they want to return to companies they have worked for before, a survey has found.
Typhoon-chaser's firsthand account of his pursuit of Shanshan
A washed-up boat on the shore of the city of Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday
First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.
The man who opened MLB's door to Japanese players
Masanori Murakami poses with a Willie Mays-themed clock during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Monday.
Yen calling the shots as BOJ mulls rate increase
Concern about the yen strengthening might limit the Bank of Japan's room for maneuver.
Clocking off: Japan’s hotter summers put limit on outdoor work
A construction worker in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Aug. 21. With 886 cases, 54 of them fatal, during the period from 2019 to 2023, the construction industry leads Japan’s tally for occupational heatstroke.

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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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?
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