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CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 26, 2006

Fuji TV presents Yoshi's romances in the series "Angels With Broken Wings" and more

Anovelist who simply goes by the name of Yoshi has sold more than 2.7 million volumes in his "Deep Love" series of Harlequin-like romances. This week, Fuji TV will present four 45-minute Yoshi-penned dramas on the same days that they are published in book form.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 26, 2006

It was downhill all the way in Japan's media coverage of Olympics

Were the Turin Winter Olympics really that boring or was it just the Japanese television coverage?
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2006

Tamiflu is produced via chemical synthesis

A research team has developed a method to make Tamiflu, the antiviral drug considered the best defense against bird flu, from a chemical compound without using a botanical ingredient used by the Swiss manufacturer F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., it was announced Saturday.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Feb 26, 2006

Memoirs of a foreigner

JAPANESE JOURNEYS: Writings and Recollections, by Geoffrey Bownas. Kent: Global Oriental Ltd., 2005, 264 pp., with b/w photos, £30 (cloth). One late evening in 1970, the scholar Geoffrey Bownas was working with the writer Yukio Mishima on their anthology "New Writing in Japan." The noted author excused...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Feb 26, 2006

Current events frame detective plots

MOGHUL BUFFET by Cheryl Benard. New York: Soho Crime, 1998, 264 pp., $12 (paper). THE TYPHOON LOVER by Sujata Massey. New York: HarperCollins, 2005, 306 pp., $23.95 (cloth). "I like Pakistan," writes Cheryl Benard. "I want to say that right at the outset, to avoid any misunderstandings. Its cities are...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 26, 2006

Has America's conscience fallen victim to 9/11?

On the 15th of this month, the Australian television station SBS broadcast one of the most awful and horrendous programs I have ever seen. The images aired -- many for the first time anywhere -- were still photographs and raw videos of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These were abuses committed...
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 25, 2006

Missing Japan stars cause headaches for Buchwald, Nishino

Gamba Osaka manager Akira Nishino and Urawa Reds counterpart Guido Buchwald have admitted that the absence of their Japan stars has hampered preparations for the 2006 season and both are expected to field weakened teams for Saturday's Xerox Super Cup clash in Tokyo.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 25, 2006

Uehara tosses gem

FUKUOKA -- Koji Uehara stands alone, so he must stand tall.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Tokyo seeks Pyongyang abductors

Japan, via its embassy in Beijing, demanded Friday that North Korea hand over two Pyongyang agents suspected of abducting four Japanese nationals in two separate cases in 1978, the Foreign Ministry said.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Prosecutors want Asahara appeal dismissed over deadline

Prosecutors asked the Tokyo High Court on Friday to turn down an appeal filed by the counsel for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara against the death sentence he was handed two years ago for 13 criminal counts, including the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Death sentence upheld for man who killed twice

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of two murders and robbery in 1994 and 1995 in Gifu and Mie prefectures.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

War-displaced denied redress appeal

Three war-displaced women appealed a court ruling Friday rejecting their demand for 60 million yen in damages from the state for its alleged failure to take swift action to repatriate them from China at the end of World War II.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Winny strikes again: Clerk's PC leaks court info

Internet file-sharing software Winny wreaked havoc in Japanese authorities' computers for the second straight day Friday, with the Tokyo District Court's internal information on public auctions leaked onto the Internet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Nihon Keizai reels amid investigations into insider trading

Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. President Ryoki Sugita said Friday its managing director in charge of advertising, Takashi Kageyama, resigned the same day to take responsibility for alleged insider trading by an employee at the business daily's advertising department.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Bills OK'd to tighten juvenile laws

The Cabinet approved bills Friday to revise juvenile and related laws, including elimination of a stipulation that minor offenders must be at least 14 years old to be detained at juvenile reformatories.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2006

Number of official refugees up threefold in 2005

The government recognized 46 people as refugees in 2005, more than three times the figure for the previous year, the Justice Ministry said Friday.
Will Bangladesh go the way of Pakistan?
Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, Bangladesh's army chief, arrives at Dhaka International Airport to receive Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Aug. 8 to lead the country's interim government.
U.S. researchers find probable launch site of Russia's new nuclear-powered missile
A satellite image shows what is believed to be a deployment site for a Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile, including five nuclear warhead storage bunkers (right) and bermed launch positions (lower left), in Vologda, Russia.
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 Shanshan batters Kyushu ahead of likely landfall
A satellite image shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu on Wednesday afternoon
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-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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