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CULTURE / Music
Dec 23, 2005

Medeski Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood was one of the first pure jazz groups who crossed over big time with the nascent jam band crowd in the mid-1990s. All three members -- keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood -- were fixtures on the avant-garde downtown music scene in New York in the...
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2005

Cram schools are urged to bolster security steps

The government will urge cram schools to strengthen their existing guidelines to ensure student safety, following the fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old girl by a part-time teacher in Kyoto Prefecture earlier this month, a government official said Thursday.
CULTURE / Music
Dec 23, 2005

Yebisu 06 New Year's Party

For those of you looking to usher in the new year to a homegrown sound, Yebisu 06 New Year's Party at Ebisu Garden Hall might be your thing. Playing live will be Pe'z, who may or may not explain where their superfluous apostrophe comes from, but who will certainly be rocking some pop-jazz chic embellished...
COMMENTARY
Dec 23, 2005

Britain's new political setup

LONDON -- Just as commentators have been writing about a fundamentally new political "setup" in Japan, following Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's overwhelming election victory, so also the same language is being used about British politics.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

KDDI to tie up with Qualcomm

KDDI Corp. will tie up with Qualcomm Inc., a U.S. wireless communication technology company, to start a broadcasting business for cell phones, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Dec 23, 2005

All I want for Christmas

Dear Santa, I hope this letter doesn't freak you out. I realize that it's been three decades since I last wrote to you, but I have been keeping your spirit alive all this time, albeit mostly as a child-management tool. I swear, this will be my last request of you.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

S&P set to rate BTM-UFJ highly

Standard & Poor's Ratings Service said Thursday it expects to assign on Jan. 3 a long-term counterparty credit rating of A to Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, a new bank that will form Jan. 1 through the merger of BTM and UFJ Bank.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2005

Agency expects coldest winter since '85

The Meteorological Agency revised its prediction Thursday and said this winter would be the coldest one seen in the past two decades.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 23, 2005

A slow dive into Ishigakijima

You quit the airport and drive along roads flanked with palm trees, past fields of tall sugar cane and stone-walled gardens bristling with red hibiscus flowers, and it's clear that you've arrived in a very different part of Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2005

East Timorese still searching for justice

EAST TIMOR -- East Timor's 800,000 citizens are finding that the truth does not set them free and that justice and reconciliation is elusive. A recent report published by East Timor's Commission of Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) estimates that there were a minimum of 102,800 conflict-related...
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

Five major automakers increase overseas output

Japan's five major automakers increased overseas production in November after four of them saw falls in domestic sales, according to figures released Thursday by the five.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2005

Population already contracting

Japan's population has started shrinking for the first time this year, health ministry data showed Thursday, presenting the government with pressing challenges on the social and economic front, including ensuring provision of social security services and securing the labor force.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

Japan to speed up patent exams

Japan will speed up patent examinations by increasing the number of examiners, promoting outsourcing and urging industries to be more selective in filing application cases, the Japan Patent Office said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 23, 2005

Echoes of Egoyan's mind

With "Where the Truth Lies," his 10th film, Canada's leading art-house director Atom Egoyan had reason to believe this would be his crossover hit. With Hollywood stars in his cast and a script based on a gleefully seedy novel by Rupert Holmes (once a singer who scored big with "The Pina Colada Song"),...
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

Banks allowed to sell more insurance products

Banks will be allowed to sell more insurance products over the counter, the government announced Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

State allocates 50 billion yen in 2006 budget

The government announced Thursday how to spend an as-yet-unallocated 50 billion yen in the 79.69 trillion yen fiscal 2006 budget.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

Cold weather fuels even higher kerosene prices

An increased demand for kerosene due to recent unusually cold weather has pushed retail prices of the heating oil to record highs.
CULTURE / Music
Dec 23, 2005

New Year's Eve Jazz

On New Year's Eve, Tokyo's jazz shrines -- the many clubs, small and large, that cover the city -- offer great stops for a musical pilgrimage. Starting around 7 p.m. and ending at dawn, jazz musicians and fans pack in to play and hear their last -- and first -- notes of the year. "Auld Lang Syne" never...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 23, 2005

Marunouchi illuminations

The 7th annual Tokyo Millenario will be held Dec. 24-Jan. 1. The Millenario Christmas Lights Show will light up Naka-dori, the main street in Marunouchi. The Marunouchi Exit of JR Tokyo Station and the area around Tokyo International Forum in Yurakucho will also be illuminated.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 23, 2005

Kafka on the . . . wall

Scottish artist Jack McLean's exhibition of drawings "Kafka on the...," which runs through Dec. 31 at Artist Residency Tokyo (A.R.T.) Gallery in Tokyo, focuses on two Johnnie Walkers.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

U.S. expects sluggish beef exports in '06

U.S. beef exported to Japan is estimated to total about 100,000 tons in 2006, one-third the level prior to the ban imposed in December 2003, the president and CEO of the U.S. Meat Export Federation said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

FSA gives Mizuho Securities improvement order for error

The Financial Services Agency on Thursday ordered Mizuho Securities Co. to improve its operations after the company placed large, erroneous sell orders due to a typing error earlier this month that led to huge losses and shocked the stock market.
SUMO
Dec 22, 2005

Kotooshu ready for ozeki debut

Bulgarian giant Kotooshu shoved grand champion Asashoryu's pre-tournament comments back down his throat when he pulled of a revenge victory over the feisty Mongolian at the Fukuoka Grand Sumo Tournament last month.
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 22, 2005

Japan begins buildup with camp

Japan will begin the World Cup year with a weeklong training camp in Miyazaki next month ahead of two friendlies against the United States and Finland.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 22, 2005

Lotte's Kosaka traded to Yomiuri

The Yomiuri Giants have acquired infielder Makoto Kosaka from the Chiba Lotte Marines in a cash trade, the Central League club said Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Dec 22, 2005

Igaya focused on 2016 bid

International Olympic Committee vice president Chiharu Igaya said there is a good chance for Japan to host the 2016 Games.
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.
Slow-moving storm Shanshan downgraded to tropical depression
Elevated water levels on the Tama River in Kawasaki on Friday after Shanshan dumped torrential rain on wide areas of Japan.
Apparent suicide jumper falls onto pedestrian in Yokohama, killing both
Two women died near Yokohama Station on Saturday after one of them apparently fell from a building and landed on the other, who was walking below.
New unproductive forces: the Chinese youth owning their unemployment
Job seekers crowd a job fair at Liberation Square in Shijiazhuang, China, in 2018.
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.
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.
Japan seeks another record-breaking defense budget for fiscal 2025
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force hold a live-fire exercise at the GSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in May. Japan's Defense Ministry is seeking another record-breaking budget for fiscal 2025.

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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
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