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Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 15, 2005

Proving it to the people

While waiting for the news conference to begin for "Sayuri" at the Imperial Hotel on Nov. 28, two Japanese women were discussing Zhang Ziyi, the Chinese actress who plays the title role of a geisha during the years leading up to and immediately following World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 15, 2005

Summer release set for 'anime' by Miyazaki's son

"Tales from Earthsea," an animated film to be directed by the oldest son of famed director Hayao Miyazaki, will be released next July, according to its distributor, Toho Co.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 14, 2005

PL batting champ Wada gets raise

Pacific League batting champion Kazuhiro Wada received a 20 million yen pay raise Tuesday when he signed a new deal with the Seibu Lions for an annual salary of 270 million yen.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 14, 2005

Eight pass test for NFL Europe

NFL Japan announced Tuesday that eight Japanese players will be invited for next February's NFL Europe training camp for non-Americans in Tampa, Fla.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2005

Bird flu looms over royal duck hunt

Prince Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, hosted an annual duck hunt Tuesday in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, for ambassadors and their spouses from eight countries, including Belgium, Cuba and Botswana.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2005

Tougher adult business law takes effect May 1

The revised adult entertainment control law will go into force May 1 featuring measures designed to crack down on human trafficking, the government decided Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 14, 2005

Miyazato honored by JLPGA

Ai Miyazato and Rui Kitada, who teamed up to win the inaugural Women's World Cup of Golf in South Africa in February, received the JLPGA Award on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2005

Residents at two condos to get aid

Residents of two more condominium complexes built with falsified quake-resistance data will receive government assistance for relocation and other costs, the land ministry said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2005

Zookeeper gored by elephant tusk

A zookeeper was seriously injured Tuesday by an elephant's tusk while training the animal at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, zoo officials said.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2005

Toshiba delays launch of HD DVD

Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday it will delay the domestic launch of its next-generation high-definition DVD players until next year so it can clear up copy-protection issues.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2005

Investment in factories, equipment to rise 15%: poll

Companies plan to spend 15 percent more on factories and equipment for fiscal 2005, the largest increase since 1988, when there was a peak in stock and land prices, according to a Development Bank of Japan survey released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2005

U.S. lifts import ban on Japanese beef

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday the partial lifting of its four-year-old import ban on Japanese beef, while welcoming Tokyo's decision the previous day to resume imports of U.S. beef after a two-year ban.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2005

New, improved Asimo looking for a job

Asimo runs. Asimo serves tea. Asimo pushes a cart around.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Dec 14, 2005

Common Buzzard

* Japanese name: Nosuri * Scientific name: Buteo buteo * Description: Buzzards are fairly common raptors in Japan, where they are among the larger of the birds of prey, typically growing to between 51-57 cm in length with a 110-130-cm wingspan. They are chunky birds with broad, blunt-ended wings and...
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2005

DPJ's Goto resigns over campaign scandal

Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Masanori Goto submitted a letter of resignation Tuesday to House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono over the illegal rewards one of his aides paid to campaign workers in the Sept. 11 election.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2005

LDP moves to hike tax on 'third-category' beer

The Liberal Democratic Party's tax panel decided Tuesday to raise the tax on beerlike drinks not classified as beer or low-malt "happoshu" in the latest clash between the revenue-hungry government and the beer industry.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2005

Policy recommendations for the East Asia Summit

SINGAPORE -- On Wednesday, representatives of 16 nations will gather in Kuala Lumpur for the inaugural session of the East Asia Summit (EAS). Participants to this meeting will comprise the 10 memers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and South Korea, as well as Australia,...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 14, 2005

Trade-off apparent in bats' 'costly tissues'

Here's a rhetorical question that isn't just an excuse to talk about something rude. Would you men out there rather have large gonads or large brains? For female readers, how about this: What do you think is most important in a male, testes size or brain size?
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.
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.
Yen calling the shots as BOJ mulls rate increase
Concern about the yen strengthening might limit the Bank of Japan's room for maneuver.
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.
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.
Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
Did you feel that? It may be time to refresh your disaster kits — and vocabulary.
A map of western Japan shows the Nankai Trough and, to its north, the hypocentral region where the energy for an earthquake is thought to be building.

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