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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 22, 2005

Baseball had no chance in IOC vote with Rogge at helm

Mission accomplished.
EDITORIALS
Jul 22, 2005

Breakthrough in U.S.-India ties

Hyperbole is not unusual to describe meetings of heads of state. Yet the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the United States marks a genuine departure in relations between those two countries. The U.S. agreement to help India secure international assistance with its civilian nuclear-energy...
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Machimura may have to skip ASEAN talks

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura may cancel next week's trip to Laos for talks with his Asian counterparts in order to go to New York if discussions about U.N. Security Council expansion enter a crucial stage there, according to a top ministry official.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2005

Yumeshin cranks up takeover bid

Yumeshin Holdings Co. applied for a court injunction Thursday to prevent Japan Engineering Consultants Co. from implementing a 5-for-1 stock split designed to scuttle its hostile takeover bid.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Chinese take redress case to top court

Chinese plaintiffs have taken their battle for compensation and an apology over injuries and deaths stemming from germ warfare activities pursued in China by the Japanese military during the war to the Supreme Court, court officials said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Jul 22, 2005

Do you want it soft or natural?

Aoyama is a breeding ground for night culture. It's as if someone dropped an extremely virulent strain of lounge-bar.alt in the area and it went berserk. Almost every time you round a corner, there's yet another stylish light-box sign marking the entrance of another chic new hideaway (some don't even...
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Top court to rule on condemned serial killer in '05

The Supreme Court is expected early next year to rule on the appeal of a 42-year-old man sentenced to hang for murdering four girls in Tokyo and Saitama prefectures in 1988 and 1989.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Traffic death drop laid to penalties, safety push

The number of deaths in traffic accidents declined 8.8 percent in Japan in the first half of 2005 from a year earlier to 3,124, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2005

Digital TV to get Internet trial run via fiber-optic network

The government announced Thursday plans to test broadcasting terrestrial digital television programs over the Internet with fiber-optic cable networks starting this fall.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Asbestos deaths just tip of the iceberg

Recent revelations that hundreds of workers at firms across Japan have died from asbestos-linked diseases over the past few decades have raised questions about whether the health risks of the unburnable mineral were duly recognized by the government and businesses.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Yushchenko backs Japan bid for UNSC

Japan is qualified to secure a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, in view of the political and economic role it has played within the organization, visiting Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2005

Crude oil price spike dents trade surplus

Japan's merchandise trade surplus for the first half of 2005 shrank 26.4 percent from the previous year to 4.53 trillion, yen the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

NPA unveils program for Net security

The National Police Agency on Thursday released its program to improve information security on the Internet.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Satellite reaches altitude of 570 km

An X-ray astronomy satellite that was launched earlier this month has made its way to an altitude of around 570 km, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

Dangerous diesel fumes identified

A Japanese research team said Wednesday it has identified several chemical substances emitted from diesel-powered vehicles that can cause low blood pressure and other cardiac irregularities in people who inhale them.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

State follows up on vow to help usury victims

The Justice Ministry put forward a plan Thursday to compensate loan-sharking victims by imposing financial penalties on usurious lenders and seizing their assets through criminal prosecution, and channeling that money into compensation funds.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

State admits inaction on threat it knew since '70s

The government offered vows of action and a denial Thursday after revelations the previous day that officials knew nearly 30 years ago of the serious health hazards of asbestos.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2005

FamilyMart opens first U.S. outlet

FamilyMart Co. said Thursday it has opened a convenience store in West Hollywood, Calif., the first step in its plan of setting up 200 stores in the United States by 2009.
LIFE / Travel
Jul 22, 2005

Foreign writer who defined Japan has been carved into stone in Matsue

The name usually means nothing whatsoever to the vast majority of people overseas. But in his adopted country, Lafcadio Hearn is lionized among writers in the English language with the same kind of reverence normally accorded to authors of the ilk of Melville and Shakespeare.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2005

Female tips solicited to simplify appliances

Electrical equipment manufacturers, including Sony Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., are exploiting the female perspective on the design of household electrical appliances by appointing women to relevant workshops.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2005

JETRO eyes small firms' rights gripes

The Japan External Trade Organization will investigate intellectual property rights violations overseas on behalf of small businesses in Japan and shoulder two-thirds of the costs, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2005

NPA unveils program for Net security

The National Police Agency on Thursday released its program to improve information security on the Internet.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Jul 22, 2005

Weekend trance party picks 07.22

Solstice Music Festival - July 22-24
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.
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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