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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 25, 2005

Hit piece on Valentine, Marines another black eye for journalism in Japan

Is it just me, or has the level of media assaults on prominent foreign sports figures in Japan increased markedly in the past few months?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Teacher hopes flag badges gladden forlorn foreigners

Yoko Hijikata, a Japanese-language teacher, often hears students complain how Japanese tend to turn a blind eye to foreigners they see experiencing trouble on the streets.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Lawmaker quits new party to join another in poll ploy

An Upper House member who quit the Liberal Democratic Party last week to help found a new party to challenge Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration switched to another new party Wednesday in a campaign ploy for the Sept. 11 Lower House election.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Japan, China eye restart of six-way talks

Chief delegates from Japan and China to the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions agreed Wednesday in Tokyo to work together on resuming the meetings, now in recess, next week as scheduled.
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 25, 2005

JCP hits Koizumi reforms as good for big business, bad for the people

Japanese Communist Party Chairman Kazuo Shii hopes his party will make a vigorous case against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform drive, prospective tax hikes and moves to amend the pacifist Constitution as it braces for the Sept. 11 Lower House election.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

JAXA optical test satellites reach orbit from Kazakstan

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launched an optical communications test satellite and a piggyback satellite from a launch site in Kazakstan early Wednesday Japan time.
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2005

China and Russia: brothers in arms?

Last week, China and Russia began their first ever joint military exercises. The drills have some armchair strategists warning of a new entente between Beijing and Moscow that could pose a threat to the existing regional security order. The truth about the exercises is considerably less exciting. For...
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2005

New Takaratomy expects good sales

Takara Co. and Tomy Co. said Wednesday their new company to be created through a merger in March will book 200 billion yen in group sales in fiscal 2008.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Teen indicted for parents' murders

Prosecutors charged a 16-year-old boy Wednesday with killing his parents and blowing up their apartment in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward in June.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Translations of disputed texts on Web

Chinese and Korean translations of parts of eight Japanese junior high school history textbooks dealing with modern history appeared on the Foreign Ministry's Web site Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2005

Sumitomo unit ups output of mosquito nets for Africa

Sumitomo Chemical Co. has been cranking up production of mosquito nets in response to soaring demand in Africa, where Japan's traditional sleeping screens with a modern twist have gained recognition as an effective weapon against malaria.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

LDP rebels must leave or be expelled: Takebe

Liberal Democratic Party members who voted against postal privatization last month will probably be expelled if they hold onto their party memberships while running in the Sept. 11 Lower House election, LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2005

Murakami's OSE stake can't top 20%

The Financial Services Agency announced Wednesday it has rejected financier Yoshiaki Murakami's application to acquire a more than 20 percent stake in Osaka Securities Exchange Co.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2005

Keidanren to officially back Koizumi

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) will officially back the Liberal Democratic Party in the Sept. 11 Lower House election as a show of support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reforms, sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2005

'Cool Biz' helps department store sales heat up 1%

Sales at department stores rose 1.1 percent on a same-store basis in July from the prior year to 764.5 billion yen for the second straight month of growth, an industry group said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY
Aug 25, 2005

Know when not to apologize

LONDON -- Here is a telling statistic about Japan's foreign policy that is little known in the West, and may not be widely known even in Japan itself.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2005

U.S beef faces further study, bureaucratic steps

More study on the risk of imported U.S. beef being infected with mad cow disease is needed before reopening the Japanese market, a food safety panel said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2005

Kanebo Cosmetics performs well

Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., undergoing state-backed rehabilitation, reported Wednesday better-than-expected earnings for the January-June period.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Aug 25, 2005

Illuminating responses to 'Glimmers of hope . . . '

One of the most entertaining things about being a columnist is getting feedback from readers.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Aug 25, 2005

River grasshopper

* Japanese name: Kawarabatta * Scientific name: Eusphingonotus japonicus * Description: This is a grasshopper with a mottled, stone-gray or brown body that is very difficult to spot. Males are between 25-30 mm long, females between 40-43 mm. The large hind legs (femurs) have a herring-bone pattern,...
LIFE / Language
Aug 25, 2005

How to avoid strife when writing essays

It is a classic dilemma for any Japanese student of English: with a deadline fast approaching, how to go about writing an essay when the target language is not the student's native tongue? Many assume it is easier to write an essay in their native language and then to translate it into English. In fact,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 24, 2005

New parties to team up against LDP: Watanuki

Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party) will cooperate with another new party in the Sept. 11 general election and oppose Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization drive, leader Tamisuke Watanuki said.
Alerts issued for Tokyo area cities as Shanshan crawls across Japan
A submerged area of Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on Thursday after Typhoon Shanshan dumped torrential rain throughout the Kyushu region.
Typhoon Shanshan batters Kyushu ahead of likely landfall
A satellite image shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu on Wednesday afternoon
From tropical storm to 'violent': Japan’s typhoon classifications
A satellite image from Wednesday shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu as the storm was rapidly intensifying.
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.
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.
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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