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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 11, 2005

Fashion show puts carp on catwalk

If the connection between carp streamers, environmental awareness, catwalk strutting and the national pastime of spending ridiculous amounts of cash on extravagant clothing is hazy, be enlightened at the Dengen Fashion Show, taking place at The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, Tokyo National Museum, Nov....
CULTURE / Music
Nov 11, 2005

Hard-Fi

Richard Archer, the leader of England's Hard-Fi, claims there's no point in being another indie band. "I'm not in competition with Razorlight or The Killers," he says on the band's Web site. "I'm in competition with Eminem." The British music press seems to think he actually has a shot at Shady's level...
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 10, 2005

Korean 'treasure' returns for Konami

For winning an unprecedented three MVP awards, Sun Dong Yol was called "South Korea's national treasure" when he was an active player. And even after his retirement, he still is respected by everyone.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

Half-year Iraq duty extension urged

The Ground Self-Defense Force reconstruction assistance mission in Iraq needs to be extended by at least six months past its Dec. 14 expiration, a government source has said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

North Americans to get 'manga' in Sunday comics

Charlie Brown, Garfield and other longtime favorite cartoon stars will soon be sharing space in North American newspapers with doe-eyed women in frilly outfits, effeminate long-haired heroes and cute fuzzy animals.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

Fighters scrambled record 30 times to intercept Chinese planes

Japanese fighter jets have been scrambled 30 times to turn away Chinese planes approaching Japan's airspace in the last seven months, more than twice the 13 times in the same period last year, officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

Koizumi, Roh to meet in Pusan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun will hold a meeting Nov. 18 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit to be held in Pusan, South Korea, the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo and the South Korean presidential office announced Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Nov 10, 2005

Abe suggests he'll still go to Yasukuni in new post

Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, a front runner to be the next prime minister, hinted Wednesday he will keep visiting the contentious Yasukuni Shrine.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

Lawmakers discuss secular war memorial

Lawmakers launched a nonpartisan group Wednesday to consider building a secular war memorial to help resolve the controversy over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's contentious visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

Fall falling back and spring springing forward

A study by the Meteorological Agency says fall foliage is appearing more than two weeks later than about 50 years ago and spring flowers are blooming nearly 10 days earlier due to global warming, agency officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

Artists decry museum merger plan

Painter Ikuo Hirayama and other prominent figures in the Japanese art world on Wednesday protested a proposal to integrate two national museums and a research institute on cultural assets because of financial difficulties.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2005

Lending up three months straight

The average daily balance of bank lending expanded 0.9 percent in October from a year earlier for the third straight month, after adjustment for special factors, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 10, 2005

Relegation may disqualify Verdy

The J. League could replace Tokyo Verdy with another team in next season's Asian Champions League if Verdy is relegated to the second division this year, soccer sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 10, 2005

The thing itself

In October 1968 Nobuo Sekine dug a hole in the ground, shaped the extracted dirt into a large cylinder and called the work "Phase -- Mother Earth." It was probably an experiment, influenced by discussions of the new Land Art and Minimalist works taking place in the United States.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 10, 2005

Tokion talks Tokyo

Uber-cool magazine Tokion has been investigating the cutting edge of creative subcultures for almost 10 years. Having started as a Japanese/English bilingual culture magazine in 1996, it now has separate editions in each language and a cult following on both sides of the Pacific.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / U.S. THINK TANK SYMPOSIUM
Nov 10, 2005

Japan must defuse wartime issues with neighbors

Despite post-9/11 changes in American strategic thinking, the U.S. alliance with Japan today is more important and healthier than ever, but Japan's troubled relations with its Asian neighbors can prove to be a serious problem for the alliance, said Eric Heginbotham, a political scientist with the RAND...
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2005

NTT's sales, profits fall on stiffer competition

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Wednesday its group net profit in the April-September period fell 4.0 percent from a year earlier to 330.73 billion, yen hit by the continuing slide in fixed-line voice communications.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / U.S. THINK TANK SYMPOSIUM
Nov 10, 2005

Demonizing China will accomplish nothing

Protectionist or demonizing views of China as a currency manipulator or as a security threat could endanger the national interests of the United States and Japan, two American think tank experts told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2005

Toyota woos figure skater

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that figure skater Miki Ando will join the automaker next April after graduating from high school.
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.
20% take no action over Nankai Trough quake warning
A shelf for emergency goods is seen almost empty at a hardware store in the city of Shizuoka on Aug. 9.
Typhoon Shanshan batters Kyushu ahead of likely landfall
A satellite image shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu on Wednesday afternoon
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.
This English schoolboy has big dreams of becoming yokozuna — and more
Nicholas Tarasenko trains at Minato stable in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Tuesday. Tarasenko’s potential in sumo was made obvious when he won U18 gold in the 90-kg weight class at the 2023 Baruto Cup in Estonia despite being four years under the age limit and having only had a total of one hour of sumo training before the meet.

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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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