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Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2005

New lodgings let parents be near sick kids

YOKOHAMA -- Naomi Toyama didn't hesitate when she agreed to take her 16-month-old son, Keisuke, from Okinawa to Yokohama for a month to receive an advanced operation to cure a congenital disease.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2005

Postal rebels try to regroup via new party

Four Liberal Democratic Party foes of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal reform push and a defector from the main opposition force announced Wednesday they will form a new party and run on its ticket in the Sept. 11 poll.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2005

Koizumi turns new residence into exclusive art museum

If the new Prime Minister's Official Residence was opened to the public, unknowing visitors would think they had stumbled into an art museum.
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2005

China to swoop on Iran oil field if Tokyo pulls support: firms

On the brink of tapping into one of the world's largest known oil reserves, Japanese companies are fretting over the possibility of further rivalry with China.
COMMENTARY
Aug 18, 2005

Double standards don't help

LONDON -- Sixty years ago this month Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by the first nuclear bombs. The effects of these bombs on the civilian populations of these cities are a horrific reminder of why all governments need to redouble their efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and to achieve...
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2005

Tohoku temblor not area's Big One: panel

The powerful earthquake that rattled the Tohoku region Tuesday was not the big temblor predicted to strike the area within the next 30 years, the government's Earthquake Research Committee concluded Wednesday.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 18, 2005

Summers in Japan mean blood sweat and tears

Though it hasn't been scientifically proven, there appears to be a definite link between summer heat and summer funerals. In my neighborhood, the onset of o-neppa (heat wave), followed by those negurushii yoru (restless nights) sets off a string of o-soshiki (funerals) at the local temple. Almost always,...
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Aug 18, 2005

Jizo

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 18, 2005

What a curious wonder the walrus is

The walrus is a peculiar, even comical, creature -- and not only in Lewis Carroll's 1872 poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter."
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Aug 18, 2005

The Force is strong with this one

Pairing Star Wars with the Lego toy brand is a bizarre concept to begin with, let alone making a video game based on this surprisingly fun (and lucrative) cocktail. Since the Danish toy maker's release several years back of Star Wars-related items, collectors have gone crazy over Lego versions of their...
MORE SPORTS
Aug 17, 2005

Police file charges against Olympian Satoya

Police sent papers to prosecutors Tuesday on Tae Satoya, a Nagano Winter Olympics gold medalist for moguls, and a male employee of a Tokyo night club, both on suspicion of assault, they said.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2005

An uneven economic recovery

It appears that Japan's economy has emerged from a "soft patch" and entered a new period of moderate growth. In April through June, the nation's gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 1.1 percent, the Cabinet Office announced last week. That marked the third consecutive quarter of positive...
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2005

DPJ's platform vows troop pullout

The Democratic Party of Japan on Tuesday unveiled its platform for the Sept. 11 election, pledging to pull the Ground Self-Defense Force out of Iraq by December if it comes to power.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2005

7.2 Tohoku temblor injures at least 58, even rattles Tokyo

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck the Tohoku region just before noon Tuesday, injuring at least 58 people, mainly in Miyagi Prefecture, and giving areas as far away as Tokyo a good long jolt.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2005

Kamei trying to form new party

Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Shizuka Kamei held talks Tuesday about forming a new party with several lawmakers who lost LDP backing for the Sept. 11 general election by opposing postal privatization.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Japan to ask U.S. for details about meat violations

Japan intends to ask the United States for detailed information on the large number of violations committed by U.S. meatpackers to circumvent rules designed to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, government officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Innkeeper puts on her promotional face

Fumiko Motoya is one of the best-known faces of corporate Japan.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Nonlife insurers admit payout failure

Five of Japan's six biggest nonlife insurers, including Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., acknowledged Tuesday that some of their policyholders may have been wrongfully denied policy payouts in the past.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Investor funds flourish, but caveat emptor

Ranging from hip-hop music to premium wines and a ramen court, funds are emerging in myriad fields to whet the appetites of investors tired of the minuscule interest on regular bank deposits and eager for a taste of adventure.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2005

Time eased for burglar who killed

The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday reduced a 75-year-old man's life prison term to 20 years for the murder of a woman last year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2005

Short of guests, hotels pitch kid tours

City hotels are selling packages that give children a behind-the-scenes look at the industry.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2005

'Horiemon' LDP's secret weapon?

In a move symbolic of the lengths it will go to win the Sept. 11 general election, the Liberal Democratic Party has asked Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie to be a candidate on its ticket, senior LDP members said Tuesday.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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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