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BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2005

APEC ministers plan oil coordination

Asia-Pacific finance ministers at their meeting next week will call for increased policy coordination between oil-producing and -consuming states, including the launch of annual dialogue in the International Energy Forum, to curb surging oil prices, according to a draft joint statement.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 3, 2005

So you think you're busy? Well, that's nothing!

For many Japanese, one word sums up their entire lives: "busy."
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2005

Tepco, Fuji Heavy plan electric auto, quick charge

Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru vehicles, said Friday they will jointly develop an environmentally friendly electric vehicle based on Fuji Heavy's Subaru R1e prototype EV.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 3, 2005

El Haddawi seeks sensational Bavarian waterfall

On any normal day, Thomas Farnbacher can wave to his partner, Ingo Taleb-Rashid, across Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria. "I live one side with my wife and children in a small village. Rashid lives on the other. The lake is too big to see one another, of course. But we know we are there."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 3, 2005

Will Carter

LONDON -- "Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 2, 2005

Imaoka drives in six as Tigers clobber Dragons 8-1

Makoto Imaoka drove in six runs on a pair of homers and a triple Thursday as the Hanshin Tigers downed the Chunichi Dragons 8-1 to open up a 1 1/2-game lead in the Central League standings.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

DBJ plans disaster-preparedness loans

The Development Bank of Japan plans to start a new loan system next year to encourage firms to prepare for natural disasters and terror attacks.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

Kokudo shareholder status was 'nominal': Toda

Former Seibu Railway Co. President Hiroyuki Toda admitted in a document filed Thursday with the Tokyo District Court that he was just a "nominal" shareholder in Kokudo Corp., a core member of the Seibu Railway group, sources said.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

German wine promo ex-exec held

A former senior official with the Japanese unit of a German government wine promotion institute was arrested Thursday on suspicion of defrauding the organization of 15 million, yen police said.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

Thai FTA defers sticking points

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his visiting Thai counterpart, Thaksin Shinawatra, agreed Thursday on a basic accord to lower mutual trade barriers that left key decisions on high tariffs on Japanese cars and Thai rice unresolved.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

Election to bring diplomacy headaches

Kasumigaseki, Tokyo's bureaucratic hub, has been in a political vacuum since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the House of Representatives on Aug. 8 -- and diplomacy is no exception.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2005

Daiei gets fresh start on produce

Major supermarket chain Daiei Inc. announced Thursday that measures to improve the freshness of fruit and vegetables are in place at all 387 outlets that handle such produce.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2005

Koizumi gets some high marks but must do more: Doyukai

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration should be given high marks for having addressed issues untouched by its predecessors, but there is still more to do, according to the chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai).
COMMENTARY
Sep 2, 2005

Commemorating a mistake

Chaos theorists like to speculate how a butterfly flapping wings in Beijing might cause an earthquake in Latin America. But history could have something even more chaotic to say -- how a Japanese soldier's toilet stop near Beijing in 1937 plunged Japan into an eight-year war with China, rescued Europe...
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

Quake snapped cable on lift in Mori Tower

An elevator cable in 54-story Mori Tower complex in Tokyo snapped last October when a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit Niigata Prefecture some 200 km away, according to the tower's operator.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

Groups against revisionist history text call campaign a success

Civic groups opposing a contentious revisionist history textbook on Thursday hailed the result of the publisher's recent survey, as well as their own, that less than 1 percent of the nation's junior high schools are likely to use the book from next April.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

Beyond postal stance, Koizumi mum on policies

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JAPAN
Sep 2, 2005

Panel proposes measures to ensure trains run at safe speeds

A transport ministry panel said Thursday that it will issue proposals mainly to ensure trains don't run at unsafe speeds, after the deadly derailment on West Japan Railway Co.'s Fukuchiyama Line in April.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / THEN AND NOW
Sep 2, 2005

Wander where the wise ones wink

Buddhist statues we usually see at temples and museums represent enlightened beings that have transcended their worldly existence and entered the Buddhist pantheon. They stand or are seated on pedestals of lotus flowers symbolic of the Buddhist paradise, and are depicted in poses particular to their...
Sep 2, 2005

Tokyo eyes MSDF exit at expiry of Indian Ocean duty

Japan may withdraw the Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels providing logistic support in the Indian Ocean for naval vessels involved in the U.S.-led antiterror campaign in and around Afghanistan when the mission expires Nov. 1, government sources said 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.
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
Japanese government considering investment in Rapidus
Tetsuro Higashi, the chairman of Rapidus, at the company's headquarters in Tokyo in February 2023
Hayao Miyazaki wins prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award
Hayao Miyazaki at an award ceremony in Los Angeles in November 2014
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.
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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