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BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Foreign reserves down $1.77 billion

Japan's foreign-exchange reserves stood at $841.79 billion at the end of October, down $1.77 billion from the month before for the second straight monthly fall, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Policy panel backs civil servant reductions

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's key policy-guiding panel will recommend nearly halving the ratio of payroll costs of national public servants to gross domestic product over the next 10 years from the current 1.7 percent, sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2005

JR East settles Kokuro wage discrimination row

East Japan Railway Co. has reached a settlement in a dispute over wage discrimination against workers belonging to a union that opposed the 1987 privatization and breakup of the national railway service, according to company and union sources.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Tsutaya operator triples net profit to 3.28 billion yen

Culture Convenience Club Co. said its first-half net profit more than tripled to 3.28 billion, yen thanks to strong revenue growth from rental DVD movies.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 9, 2005

Central League releases schedule

The Central League said Tuesday the regular season next year will begin one week later than the Pacific League with the same 146-game schedule.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2005

State files appeal on Hansen's ruling

The government filed an appeal Tuesday against a district court ruling that said the state is legally bound to compensate a group of Taiwanese Hansen's disease sufferers who had been segregated at a sanitarium during Japanese colonial rule.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Oil spikes don't mean country is out of deflation woods: Teikoku survey

The expected rise in consumer prices does not necessarily mean the economy will be free of deflation, as the gain mostly stems from rising oil prices, according to a survey released Tuesday by credit research agency Teikoku Databank.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Nov 9, 2005

Mystery snail Tanishi

* Japanese name: Tanishi * Scientific name: Cipangopaludina japonica * Description: A large snail, growing up to 60 mm long. It has two large "horns"; shell color is uniform, light to dark olive-green, but may have color bands. As in the photo, they are often muddy, and they are also known as mud snails. *...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 9, 2005

Study finds broccoli combats gastritis

As futurists get excited by the prospect of engineering ourselves to have longer lives, it's easy to forget that, as well as the high-tech ways, there are very simple ways to live longer.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2005

Liquor retailer union raided

Police raided the office of a liquor retailer union in Tokyo on Tuesday on suspicion that its former secretary general was involved in embezzling pension funds and failing to collect about 14.4 billion yen in foreign investment funds.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Tepco profit dives 41% in half as oil prices rise

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday its group net profit for the six months through September plunged 41.0 percent from a year before to 107.98 billion yen due to rising fuel costs stemming from sharp rises in crude oil prices.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 8, 2005

Sikorski gets his walking papers

The Yomiuri Giants said Monday right-hander Brian Sikorski will leave the Central League team after the reliever was left out of new manager Tatsunori Hara's plans for the next season.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 8, 2005

Tigers, Marines to face off in May

The Hanshin Tigers and Chiba Lotte Marines will face each either in a rematch of their Japan Series showdown last month when interleague play opens its second-year schedule on May 9 next year.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 8, 2005

Miyazato to skip event

Japanese star golfer Ai Miyazato has decided to skip the season-ending Japan LPGA Tour Championship, the JLPGA said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2005

Data on SDF hospital patients leaked

Personal data on 59 people who received treatment at hospitals run by the Ground Self-Defense Force have been leaked on the Internet and remain publicly available, Defense Agency officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2005

Japan Tobacco to challenge planned antismoking measures

In rare move, Japan Tobacco Inc. will challenge on Tuesday a government plan to introduce smoking restrictions.
EDITORIALS
Nov 8, 2005

Ending the zero-rate policy

In March 2001, the Bank of Japan set short-term interest rates at near zero, declaring that the nation's economy had entered a period of deflation. That extra-loose monetary policy, which is said to have had few parallels in the world, is likely to change next spring, because an upturn in consumer prices...
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 8, 2005

Giants release slugger Rhodes

The Yomiuri Giants have notified Tuffy Rhodes they will not sign a contract with the slugger for next season, the Central League club said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2005

Prince enters hospital over chest pains

Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, a cousin of Emperor Akihito, was hospitalized Monday for suspected pericarditis, a heart ailment, at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo, the Imperial Household Agency said.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 8, 2005

Spreading the spirit of an old Japanese tradition

It's probably a sign of impending old age but these days, I find myself recalling the words of my late grandmother and applying them to current life situations.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2005

NPA deputizes Yahoo in hunt for five fugitives

The National Police Agency is placing wanted posters on the Yahoo Japan Web site regarding five suspects.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Nov 8, 2005

Reiko Ito

Reiko Ito, age 46, is one of the 75 certified AFAA (Aerobics and Fitness Association of America) instructors in Japan, a teacher to other trainers and one of the few qualified to lead SAQ (Speed, Agility, Quickness) classes here. She wants to empower everyone and she knows just how.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2005

Loose cable on Yamanote Line causes five-hour halt

Trains on Tokyo's crowded JR Yamanote Line were halted for more than five hours Monday, including the morning peak time, due to a loose overhead power cable, officials at East Japan Railway Co. said.
Tropical Storm Shanshan soaks Japan as flood and landslide risks rise
People walk in front of closed ticket gates for the Tokaido Shinkansen in Tokyo Station as train operations between Tokyo and Nagoya remain suspended due to Tropical Storm Shanshan on Saturday.
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.
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.
Tokyo protests after Chinese Navy ship enters Japanese territorial waters
A Chinese Navy Shupang-class survey ship
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.

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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