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JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Brit, American win Blue Planet Prize

Scientists Nicholas Shackleton of Britain and Gordon Hisashi Sato of the United States have been awarded the international Blue Planet Prize for 2005 by the Tokyo-based Asahi Glass Foundation, the foundation announced Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 28, 2005

Would you want Japan to switch to daylight-saving time?

Narelle Dunn English Teacher, 27 Well, we have daylight saving in Australia and I think it's a fantastic idea. You come home from work and there's still enough daylight to do something like go to the beach or have a barbecue.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Boy, 9, declared 37th tsunami victim

A 9-year-old Japanese boy has been confirmed to have been killed in Thailand in the tsunamis that struck the Indian Ocean last December, bringing the confirmed Japanese death toll in the disaster to 37, Foreign Ministry officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Campaign will urge using real names on Net

The government will begin a campaign to encourage people to use their real names when posting on the Internet to help reduce crimes committed due to the Net's anonymity, government sources said.
EDITORIALS
Jun 28, 2005

New president faces old problems

The victory of Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's presidential election last week is only somewhat of a surprise. While relatively unknown, Mr. Ahmadinejad is a religious conservative who enjoyed the backing of powerful like-minded groups within the country and, equally important, the support of many...
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2005

JSAT, PanAmSat to launch N.Y.-area satellite service

JSAT Corp., Japan's largest communications satellite operator, said Monday it and PanAmSat Corp. of the United States will launch a communications and broadcast satellite in 2007 to cater primarily to subscribers in the New York area.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Nations told to form united front against human-trafficking

The government, hosting a seminar on human trafficking that has drawn officials from about 50 countries, called Monday for a unified stand to fight the problem.
JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Jun 28, 2005

Citizen participation in international cooperation

A public symposium on how ordinary people can assist international cooperation activities based on the experiences of the European Union and Japan will be held July 14 in Yokohama.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 28, 2005

Visa crackdown -- don't get burned

Last year The Japan Times ran an article entitled "Students pay price in visa crackdown" about Americans put through the wringer on minor infractions.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Koizumi nixes LDP postal amendments

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected a request by his own Liberal Democratic Party on Monday to amend a set of bills now in the Diet that would privatize Japan Post, senior LDP members said.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Bird flu detection delay has ministry clucking

The farm ministry will begin seeking ways to detect weak strains of bird flu in the early stages, in light of the latest case in Ibaraki Prefecture where it took more than two months for the outbreak to be confirmed.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2005

Japan Highway, other firms to be raided over bid-rigging

Prosecutors will raid offices of bridge builders and Japan Highway Public Corp. on Wednesday on suspicion of rigging bids for Japan Highway bridge construction projects, investigative sources said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Jun 28, 2005

Pitching a Japan that can

A clash of interests among major U.N. member states is clouding the prospects for reform of the Security Council. While Japan, Brazil, Germany and India, known as the Group of Four (G4), seek permanent membership on the council, the Uniting for Consensus coalition, including Italy, South Korea and Pakistan,...
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2005

Shareholders' meetings going online

In another move to secure the loyalty of individual shareholders, nearly 400 Japanese companies have allowed or will allow individual investors to vote via mobile phones or personal computers for this year's general shareholders' meetings, which will peak Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 27, 2005

Brazilians too strong for Japanese volleyballers

Japan failed to capitalize on a two-set lead over powerhouse Brazil and lost 3-2 in a game between unbeaten teams in the preliminary round of the women's volleyball World Grand Prix on Sunday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2005

Rookie Kubo, Marines shut out Buffaloes

Catcher Tomoya Satozaki hit a pair of homers and rookie Yasutomo Kubo went the distance Sunday as the Chiba Lotte Marines downed the Orix Buffaloes 5-0 to snap a three-game losing streak.
EDITORIALS
Jun 27, 2005

More of the same with the Koreas

Three days of high-level talks between North and South Korea yielded little that could be called progress toward resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. That is not surprising. The North has maintained all along that the nuclear issue is a question to be settled between itself and the United...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 27, 2005

Shining a light on Turkish-Japanese ties

NEW YORK -- Selcuk Esenbel was in town. For many years now a professor of history at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Selcuk was, when I met her more than 30 years ago, studying Japanese history at Columbia University. The fruit of that study is her 1998 tome, which she gave me during her previous visit...
JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Jun 27, 2005

Tickets to Live8 concert now available through lottery

A lottery is now open for tickets to the Japan performance of the Live8 series of rock concerts aimed at getting world leaders to help Africa.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Japan seeking Yokota air control

Final negotiations have started over the return of vast airspace whose traffic control rights are now held by the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, according to government sources.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2005

Nakasone against building a new war memorial

Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone expressed strong opposition Sunday to building a secular memorial to Japan's war dead that political leaders could visit without provoking Asian countries.
COMMENTARY
Jun 27, 2005

Perceptions that defy amity

On a recent Korea Air flight from Narita to Inchon, South Korea, I was surprised when they showed images of air routes on the in-flight video system. The Tok-do islets in the Sea of Japan, the source of a Japan-South Korea territorial dispute, were shown as prominently as Tokyo and Seoul. The islets,...
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.
Japan scraps idea to woo women out of city with cash
Bureaucrats had envisioned payments of up to ¥600,000 for women who got married and settled outside of Tokyo, according to media reports.
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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