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Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Jul 17, 2005

Tokyo eyes global catwalk

The Japanese fashion business is abuzz with the news that the six-week-long Tokyo Collections event that has forever been largely ignored by the international media is to be compressed into a government-backed, 10-day industry showcase staged in the grounds of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo's supertrendy Harajuku...
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2005

14 flights on Bombardier planes canceled

The All Nippon Airways group and a Japan Airlines affiliate canceled 14 domestic flights Saturday to check the engines on all Bombardier DHC-8-400 planes after one made an emergency landing in June because smoke had filled the cockpit and cabin, the airlines said.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 17, 2005

Indelible mark of the tattoo

THE WORLD OF TATTOO, by Maarten Hesselt van Dinter. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers/Hotei Publishing, 304 pp., 720 color illustrations, $80 (cloth). Charles Darwin averred that there was not one country in which the inhabitants did not tattoo themselves. From the ancient Briton to the plains Indians, through...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 17, 2005

A fresh democracy or Maoist disaster?

HONOLULU -- For 10 years, the remote Himalayan kingdom of Nepal has been slipping nearer and nearer to the edge of collapse; the tipping point is now close at hand.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 17, 2005

Missy Elliott: "The Cookbook"

The divine Miss E's sixth album of spicy hip-hop and juicy R&B is even more old school than her last joint, the criminally underrated "This Is Not a Test!" Dismissing her sous chef Timbaland after two excellent opening cuts, she takes sole charge of the kitchen and brings in the original irresponsible...
COMMENTARY
Jul 17, 2005

The international terror lab

NEW DELHI -- The July 7 London bombings, suspected to be the handiwork of British citizens of Pakistani origin, should serve as a reminder that major acts of international terrorism have first been tried out by Islamists in India before being replicated in the West. Such acts include attacks on symbols...
EDITORIALS
Jul 16, 2005

Priorities in the six-party talks

The next round of six-party talks, the multilateral negotiations over North Korea's nuclear-weapons programs, are scheduled to resume the week of July 25 in Beijing. While it is unclear what motivated North Korea to return to the talks, success will depend on whether the other five parties -- Japan,...
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Japan gives Seoul new envoy but denies gaffe was reason

The government formally appointed veteran diplomat Shotaro Oshima as ambassador to South Korea on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Rhubarb over Diet 'drunks' shelved

The ruling and opposition camps agreed Friday to drop the flurry of motions they drew up last month, triggered when opposition lawmakers accused some on the other side of attending a Diet session under the influence of alcohol and ruling party members countering that the allegations were false.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Me Net Securities, kabu.com to merge by end of March

Online brokerages kabu.com Securities Co. and Me Net Securities Co. said Friday they will merge by March 31, creating the third-largest online brokerage in terms of customer accounts.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Narita to extend runway northward

Narita International Airport's "interim" 2,180-meter second runway will be extended to the north to its full length of 2,500 meters instead of to the south as originally planned because landowners refused to budge, the operator said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Livedoor to seek 2 GHz band for Internet service

Livedoor Co. will apply for a 2 gigahertz band in a bid to offer high-speed wireless data service, the company said Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Three firms tied to vehicle weight scam

The transport ministry filed criminal accusations with police Friday against three companies and their officials for allegedly underreporting the weight of rail track maintenance vehicles in an attempt to circumvent government regulations, ministry sources said.
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JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Honohana foot-cult guru gets 12 years for fraud

The founder of the now-defunct Honohana Sampogyo foot-reading cult was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for bilking his flock out of 150 million yen in the name of religious training.
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BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

White paper targets red tape, menace of deflation

The government issued its annual economic white paper Friday, calling for greater deregulation and other market-driven reforms aimed at slimming down the bureaucracy.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Chinese victims of poison gas leak seek help, apology, may sue

About 40 Chinese plan to file a petition with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi next month demanding an apology, medical care and life support for injuries they sustained from a toxic gas leak from chemical weapons abandoned in China by the Imperial Japanese Army, according to their lawyers.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Jumbo lotto hopefuls unfazed by heat

People across the country line up to purchase this year's Summer Jumbo lottery tickets that went on sale Friday.
COMMENTARY
Jul 16, 2005

The terrorists won't succeed

LONDON -- The British government's measured and firm response to the attacks in London on July 7 has had the support of all political parties. The resolution of the general public to get on with their life has not wilted.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Store lobby targets costs of recycling

The Japan Chain Stores Association asked the government Friday to revise the present system for recycling food containers and packages to address what it claims is an unfair burden placed on large retailers in the form of recycling costs.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Minister prods panel on beef imports

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshinobu Shimamura again prodded a government-appointed panel Friday to reach a speedy decision on the future of Japan's ban on U.S. beef imports.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jul 16, 2005

Six-legged pirates of the Seto Inland Sea

The "matsu-kui" (pine bark beetle) exterminators once again came to my door this morning. "We're going to be spraying for matsu-kui bugs," they said. Every year they come to my door and say this. And every year I try to tell them that this is not necessary. "The pine bark beetles are already gone," I...
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JAPAN
Jul 16, 2005

Japan's sexual slavery focus of museum

In a bid to keep wartime sexual violence against women in people's minds, female activists in Japan are set to open a museum in Tokyo to collect and display materials mainly about those who were forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army during the war.
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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