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JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Princess Nori to get 153 million yen Imperial nuptial sendoff

The government said Thursday it will pay 152.5 million yen in a one-time allowance to Princess Nori, who will be leaving the Imperial household after her marriage to Tokyo metropolitan employee Yoshiki Kuroda, government officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Atone and get UNSC support: Uri Party chief

South Korea will support Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council if Tokyo adopts "sincere" policies reflective of its wartime and colonial-era conduct, Moon Hee Sang, visiting chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri Party, said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

22% of state offices coerced to buy wares: NPA

Nearly 22 percent of government offices were targets of some form of outside coercion during the year spanning August 2004 to last July, with at least 8.6 percent pressured into buying merchandise, subscribing to publications or making donations, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Osaka elementary schools hold record for violence, survey shows

elementary schools in Osaka, and probably as many or more in Tokyo, you have to wonder if Tokyo isn't underreporting the problem." In their response to parental and media inquiries about the survey results, prefectural education officials also cast blame for the violence on two recent trends.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 7, 2005

Report: Asashoryu a dad again

Mongolian yokozuna Asashoryu's wife Tamir gave birth to a son Thursday at a Tokyo hospital, Sumo Fan Magazine reported on its Web site (www.sumofanmag.com).
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Japan off Rumsfeld itinerary due to base impasse

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will skip Japan on his Asian tour in late October due to a stalemate over the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, Japanese government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Cop got pals to beat train-spat foe

A chief Metropolitan Police Department inspector who quarreled with a stranger on a train was arrested Wednesday for allegedly having two of his friends rough up the man in question, Tokyo police said.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Fujimori to seek Peru's presidency

Fugitive former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori formally announced Thursday he will run in the Peruvian presidential election next April.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

Nissan surpasses global sales expansion target

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday its global vehicle sales in the year to September surpassed its medium-term target to reach 3,671,000 units, prompting President Carlos Ghosn to declare the firm's revival process completed.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Lawyers warn state over deaths of sick inmates

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations has warned the Justice Ministry of possible human rights violations in connection with seven sick prison inmates who died after being placed in solitary confinement between August 1999 and April 2003.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

Bankers set rules on theft redress

The Japanese Bankers Association released detailed guidelines Thursday listing the conditions under which bank depositors may not receive full compensation in the event that they lose money via bank-card thefts and forgeries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 7, 2005

Ousmane Toure: "Avenue Du Monde" (Together)

When the world music movement exploded out of Africa in the early 1980s, one of the most popular groups packing concert venues was Toure Kunda. Formed by two Senegalese brothers, the band blended traditional African music with Latin, reggae and vibrant pop. Their younger brother, Ousmane Toure, later...
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Constitution panel mulls referendum bill

A new House of Representatives panel began debate Thursday on establishing legislation on procedures for a national referendum on revising the Constitution.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 7, 2005

Sound tracked

Renowned for composing some of the most memorable film scores in cinema history, Ennio Morricone first gained fame for his sometimes eerie, always distinctive soundtracks to the spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone in the 1960s, such as "Once Upon a Time in the West." Not permitted to use a full...
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

Seven-Eleven helps set Ito-Yokado sales record

Ito-Yokado Co. said Thursday its group sales during the first half of its business year to August came to a record high of 1.88 trillion yen, up 4.5 percent from the previous year, due largely to brisk performance by the group's Seven-Eleven Japan Co.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 7, 2005

Bandstand Vol. 3

The third installment of "Bandstand," an occasional, low-priced showcase for overseas indie bands, is headlined by The Walkmen, a New York quintet that rose from the ashes of two Washington, D.C.-to-New York transplant bands, Jonathan Fire*eater and The Recoys. However, it's been noted more than once...
COMMENTARY
Oct 7, 2005

Why not a nonlawyer on the high court?

WASHINGTON -- For the first time in more than 30 years, an American president has nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court someone without prior judicial experience. It's too bad that President George W. Bush didn't go further and choose a nonlawyer.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

BOJ seen seeking right time to act normal, start guiding rates

After more than four years of ultraloose monetary policy by the Bank of Japan, the economic slump is waning and many BOJ watchers, keying in on recent repeated hints, are predicting the stance may end in the near future.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 7, 2005

Surreal Vietnam imaginings

Hovering 200 meters above ground in the Caretta Shiodome skyscraper in Tokyo, Milanese restaurant BiCE has been making a name for itself not just through its veal scaloppini with lemon sauce, but also as a venue for contemporary art, like the recent "Antelope Canyon Painting with Light" exhibition by...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Oct 7, 2005

Battle losses to fashion victims

Shibuya has many faces: a glitzy youth-oriented fashion center as represented by the 109 Building, a mass transit terminal handling 1.77 million passengers a day, a fast growing village of IT niche market players, and so on. With a complex network of large and small streets, the versatile town offers...
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2005

Chongryun embezzler loses appeal

, for embezzling 837 million yen from the failed Chogin Tokyo Credit Union for the North Korea-affiliated group. The high court dismissed an appeal filed against the Tokyo District Court sentence handed down in March last year against Kang Young Kwan, 70, found guilty of embezzling the money from the...
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2005

Industrial union leader is elected new Rengo chief

Japan's largest labor organization elected Tsuyoshi Takagi, head of a federation of textile, chemical and other industrial workers' unions, as its fifth president Thursday.
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.
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
Japan’s autumn eggplant: Too delicious for your daughter-in-law
From mid-August through late September, eggplants reach their height of flavor in Japan.
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.
Kitakyushu clashes with academics over Meiji Era remains
Remnants of the first Moji station complex are located near the current Mojiko Station in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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