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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 17, 2005

The Jim Seeley/ Arturo O'Farrill Quintet

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Features
Apr 17, 2005

It's time Japan jumped on its cultural bandwagon

The Japanese have never regarded their culture as universal.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 16, 2005

Kiyohara homer lifts Giants

Kazuhiro Kiyohara homered for the second straight evening Friday and turned the game around as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Yakult Swallows 5-3 in the Central League and won three straight games for the first time this season.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005

Ministry considers extending Narita runway north

The transport ministry said Friday it would probably make a decision by the end of the month on whether to extend Narita International Airport's second runway north -- instead of the original plan for a southward extension.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005

Day-laborers give way to budget tourists

OSAKA -- The Airin district in Nishinari Ward here is well known as a hub for day-laborers. It's a working-class neighborhood that is quite unlike Osaka's upscale Umeda district or the neon jungle of Shinsaibashi.
EDITORIALS
Apr 16, 2005

Mr. Wen courts India

Ties between China and India continue to strengthen. While some worry about a "new axis" between Beijing and Delhi, it is only natural that two of the world's largest countries -- neighbors, no less -- have strong and cooperative relations. Asia needs them to have a positive, forward-looking partnership....
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005

Fuji TV offers to buy Livedoor's NBS stake

Fuji Television Network Inc. has proposed buying Livedoor Co.'s entire stake in Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. with a ceiling of 6,300 yen per share, Fujisankei Communications Group sources said Friday.
COMMENTARY
Apr 16, 2005

Is Asia moving forward or backward?

LOS ANGELES -- Settling old scores is the characteristic of small minds; moving forward is the stuff of vision and leadership. Despite the growing trade among China, Japan and South Korea, much political activity appears to focus on the settlement of grudges.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005

Change Constitution: Lower House report

A Lower House panel submitted a final report Friday to Speaker Yohei Kono, stressing the need to amend the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9 and to allow a female to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005

Common-sense solutions floated to ease tensions

Ahead of Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura's trip to Beijing on Sunday to meet his counterpart, The Japan Times interviewed Sino-Japanese relations experts Tomoyuki Kojima and Zhu Jianrong to hear their views on how the two nations can defuse mounting anti-Japan activities in China, blamed in part...
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005

Japan eyes restart to abduction talks

Japan wants to break the current impasse and resume bilateral talks with North Korea to resolve Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nationals, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2005

Protests preclude joint energy development: Nakagawa

Industry minister Shoichi Nakagawa rapped China on Friday for allowing anti-Japan rallies to take place as Tokyo was about to make a decision on starting preparations for test-drilling in disputed waters in the East China Sea.
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2005

Sony, others in China cyber attack

The Web site of Sony Corp.'s Chinese arm has come under cyber attack with messages posted criticizing Japan's wartime atrocities against China, the company said Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2005

USTR gets no beef reimport date

Japan did not set a date Friday for lifting its import ban on U.S. beef in a report it submitted to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in reaction to the USTR's call for an early resumption of imports.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Apr 16, 2005

Culture shock, or mere static cling?

Culture shock, similar to an electrical shock, is something one experiences when moving to a foreign country. One can also experience reverse culture shock when returning to their home country after having lived abroad for an extended period of time. The culture shock I experienced coming to Japan for...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 16, 2005

In face of adversity, Benitez steers Liverpool to victory

LONDON -- "Things are only impossible until they're not."
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005

FSA considers whether banks should compensate victims of stolen cards

The Financial Services Agency has instructed its advisory committee to discuss whether banks should compensate victims of stolen bank cards, the FSA said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 16, 2005

Christopher Powell

A schoolboy evacuee from London to North Wales during World War II, Christopher Powell said he "fell in love with the land and language of some of my forefathers." Born in Brazil, where his father worked for a British bank, he has Anglo-Welsh antecedents from his father, and Anglo-Scottish from his mother....
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2005

Daiei records another heavy loss

Struggling retailer Daiei Inc. reported Friday a consolidated net loss of 511.2 billion yen for the year through February, with the firm having booked hefty restructuring costs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2005

Tepco head replaces scandal-hit peer

The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan will appoint Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., as its new chairman, federation sources said Friday.
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 15, 2005

Juventus to tour Japan this summer

Italian side Juventus will face J. League champion Yokohama F. Marinos and FC Tokyo in a tour of Japan this summer, organizers said Thursday.
BASKETBALL
Apr 15, 2005

JBA gives green light to break-away teams

The Japan Basketball Association on Wednesday granted the Niigata Albirex and the Saitama Broncos special approval to break away from the amateur Japan Basketball League.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 15, 2005

Cavs want coach with NBA experience

NEW YORK -- Contrary to reports, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is not among Dan Gilbert's candidates to coach the Cavaliers.
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.
Heavy rain batters Japan after Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall in Kyushu
Vehicles are stranded on flooded road on Thursday following heavy rains from Typhoon Shanshan in the city of Tamana, Kumamoto Prefecture.
Why Typhoon Shanshan's movements are so difficult to predict
Typhoon Shanshan as it moves closer to the Kyushu region in this satellite photo on Wednesday
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.
Shohei Ohtani signs exclusive trading card deal with Topps
Shohei Ohtani walks through the dugout with his dog Decoy before the Dodgers' game against the Orioles at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday.
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.
Hokkaido more plugged in to renewable energy than rest of Japan
A Rapidus factory construction site in Chitose, Hokkaido, on July 24. The plan to ramp up renewable energy usage in the region to 60% by 2030 is part of a larger concept known as “Hokkaido Valley.”

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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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